The Chinese Repository, Volume 6Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams proprietors, 1838 |
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... emperor on Opium , revenue derived from Opium , sales of , for 39 years Opium , seizure of . Opium , the burning of Opium , the importation of Opium , the traffic in Opium trade , how regarded 92 RALEIGH , H.M.S. 103,219,224,229,255 473 ...
... emperor on Opium , revenue derived from Opium , sales of , for 39 years Opium , seizure of . Opium , the burning of Opium , the importation of Opium , the traffic in Opium trade , how regarded 92 RALEIGH , H.M.S. 103,219,224,229,255 473 ...
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... emperor . But neither he nor his councils are , so far as we can see , much influenced by the voice of public opinion , except when famine , or pestilence , or inundations , or some similar cause , wakes them to deeds of public charity ...
... emperor . But neither he nor his councils are , so far as we can see , much influenced by the voice of public opinion , except when famine , or pestilence , or inundations , or some similar cause , wakes them to deeds of public charity ...
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... emperor , or nation , scouted as soon as heard ; no second audience been allowed to any officer , however high , who might have dared to claim or insinuate it ; a clearly understood recognition of the rank of the embassy insisted on ...
... emperor , or nation , scouted as soon as heard ; no second audience been allowed to any officer , however high , who might have dared to claim or insinuate it ; a clearly understood recognition of the rank of the embassy insisted on ...
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... emperor of China ( ! ) ; who is said to pride him- self as a conqueror of extensive territories , and of many Tartar tribes . " p . 34 . 66 It will seem strange that , though the British connections had then existed near a century , no ...
... emperor of China ( ! ) ; who is said to pride him- self as a conqueror of extensive territories , and of many Tartar tribes . " p . 34 . 66 It will seem strange that , though the British connections had then existed near a century , no ...
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... emperor on his entering into the 80th year of his age , but that such deputa- tion had not been immediately dispatched , expressed great displeasure there- at ( ! ) ; and , being desirous of cultivating the friendship of the emperor of ...
... emperor on his entering into the 80th year of his age , but that such deputa- tion had not been immediately dispatched , expressed great displeasure there- at ( ! ) ; and , being desirous of cultivating the friendship of the emperor of ...
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appear arrived authorities Badakshan boats Bokhára Bonin Islands British candareen Canton capital character Chiangmai chief China Chinese Chinese language Christian coast command commerce committee consul court debts Dutch duty east eastern edict emperor emperor of China empire English father favor foreign Fuhkeën give governor harbor hong merchants honor imperial India inhabitants intercourse island Japan Japanese junk Kambojans Kashgar king king of Pegu Kokan Kwangtung land language Lewchew Lintin Macao means ment miles ministers month Náret nations native nese object obtain officers opium Oxus pass Pegu Peguans Peking persons port Portuguese present prince province rájá receiving ships regard remarks resident respecting river sent shore Siam Siamese side soon Spanish taels things Tidore tion trade Túrkestan Usbek vessels visited whole words Yédo
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Page 389 - Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, for negotiating and concluding a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States of America and His Majesty...
Page 472 - A recent writer, a right-hearted and right-minded American, says, - — " The walls of Simabara were unquestionably battered by the Dutch cannon, and its brave defenders were slaughtered. Some apology might be made for this cooperation at the siege of Simabara, had its defenders been the countrymen of Alva, or Requesens, or John of Austria, or Alexander Farnese. But truth requires that the measures of Kockebecker should be regarded as the alternative, which he deliberately preferred to the interruption...
Page 193 - In the present state of the Revenue of India it does not appear advisable to abandon so important a source of Revenue ; a duty upon Opium being a tax which falls principally upon the foreign consumer, and which appears upon the whole less liable to objection than, any other which could be substituted.
Page 517 - Government and the military be prohibited, these being all taken from the scholars and common people, what ground will be found for any such partial prohibition to rest upon ? Besides, having a clear conviction that the thing is highly injurious to men, to permit it, notwithstanding, to pervade the Empire — nay, even to lay on it a duty — is conduct quite incompatible with the yet uninjured dignity of the great and illustrious Celestial Empire.
Page 517 - Hung-maou (Red-haired) came thither, and having manufactured opium, seduced some of the natives into the habit of smoking it. From these the mania for it rapidly spread throughout the whole nation, so that in process of time the natives became feeble and enervated, submitted to the foreign rule, and ultimately were completely subjugated.
Page 491 - The letter concludes with these words : "You mention, that you have stationed a vukil in Nipa'l, this is a matter of no consequence, but as the ra'ja' from his youth and inexperience, and from the novelty of the circumstance, has imbibed suspicions, if you would, out of kindness towards us, and in consideration of the ties of friendship, withdraw your vakil, it would be better; and we should feel inexpressibly grateful to you.
Page 472 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Page 559 - With the exception of medicines, we can dispense with everything that is brought us from abroad. The stuffs and other foreign commodities are of no real benefit to us. All the gold, silver, and copper extracted from the mines during the reign of Ogosho-Sama, and since his time, is gone, and, what is still more to be regretted, for things we could do well without.
Page 515 - ... in silver : now the salt merchants have all become involved, and the existing state of the salt trade in every province is abject in the extreme. How is this occasioned but by the unnoticed, oozing out of silver? If the easily exhaustible stores of the central spring go to fill up the wide and fathomless gulf of the- outer seas...
Page 563 - ... brothers ; those who walk hastily before their seniors, are undutiful brothers." " If any one is twenty years older than yourself, treat him as you do your father ; if one is ten years older, treat him as your elder brother ; if only five years older, follow him close to his shoulder.