 Opium has spread with frightful rapidity and heart-rending results through the provinces. Millions upon millions have been struck down by the plague. To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere,...  China: Its History, Arts and Literature - Sivu 166tekijä(t) Frank Brinkley - 1902Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | David P. Ekvall - 1907 - 308 sivua
...To-day it is running like wild-fire. In its swift deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woful of its deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body, renders the consumer... | |
 | David P. Ekvall - 1907 - 304 sivua
...To-day it is running like wild-fire. In its swift deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woful of its deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body, renders the consumer... | |
 | Arthur H. Smith - 1907 - 392 sivua
...To-day it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
 | Arthur H. Smith - 1907 - 276 sivua
...To-day, it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and wealth of its victims. Unless something is soon done to arrest this awful scourge in its devastating march, the Chinese people... | |
 | Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - 1910 - 1082 sivua
...Millions upon millions have been struck down by the plague... The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles...consumer incapable of performing his regular duties. . . It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to poverty, barrenness, and senility.... | |
 | 1910 - 1086 sivua
...Millions upon millions have been struck down by the plague... The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles...consumer incapable of performing his regular duties. . . It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to poverty, barrenness, and senility.... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1912 - 564 sivua
...Millions upon millions have been struck down by the plague. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles...consumer incapable of performing his regular duties. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to poverty, barrenness and senility. Unless... | |
 | John Wright Buckham, Charles Sumner Nash - 1917 - 374 sivua
...Today it is running like wildfire. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...incapable of performing his regular duties, and unfit for travel from one place to another. It consumes his substance and reduces the miserable wretch to... | |
 | Emily Georgiana Kemp - 1921 - 280 sivua
...To-day it is running like wild-fire. In its swift deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
 | Wenzao Wu - 1928 - 196 sivua
...been struck down by the plague. In its swift, deadly course it is spreading devastation everywhere, wrecking the minds and eating away the strength and...wealth of its victims. The ruin of the mind is the most woeful of its many deleterious effects. The poison enfeebles the will, saps the strength of the body,... | |
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