 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
 | 1901 - 546 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,... | |
 | ARCHIBALD E. GLOVER - 1907 - 460 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,... | |
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