A Visit to Japan, China, and IndiaS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877 - 294 pages |
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Page 178
... ment which the Duke of Buckingham , an ex - Secretary of State , is willing to accept ; and though ill - health has prematurely closed the public career of the late Governor of Bombay , Sir Seymour Fitzgerald , yet , if we look back to ...
... ment which the Duke of Buckingham , an ex - Secretary of State , is willing to accept ; and though ill - health has prematurely closed the public career of the late Governor of Bombay , Sir Seymour Fitzgerald , yet , if we look back to ...
Page 201
... ment were sincerely desirous to suppress the use of opium , this fearful vice would have been uncommon , if not unknown , in China . Now the Chinese have become so accustomed to the indulgence , and their Govern- ment is so powerless ...
... ment were sincerely desirous to suppress the use of opium , this fearful vice would have been uncommon , if not unknown , in China . Now the Chinese have become so accustomed to the indulgence , and their Govern- ment is so powerless ...
Page 205
... ment for it to trim the market , and in which its haste to secure wider harvests and larger returns has repeatedly recoiled upon the trade , stimulated baneful speculation and gambling in Central and Western India , and ended in much ...
... ment for it to trim the market , and in which its haste to secure wider harvests and larger returns has repeatedly recoiled upon the trade , stimulated baneful speculation and gambling in Central and Western India , and ended in much ...
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