 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 328 pàgines
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." After a second audience, to which they were invited chiefly for the purpose... | |
 | 1839 - 702 pàgines
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crasvled backwards like a crab, without ottering a single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch. Nor are there any more ceremonies observed in the audience he gives, even to... | |
 | 1841 - 314 pàgines
...soon," he says, " as the president entered the hall of audience, they cried out ' Holanda Capitan /' •which was the signal for him to draw near and make...So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch. Nor are there any other ceremonies observed in the audience he gives to the... | |
 | Philipp Franz von Siebold - 1841 - 450 pàgines
...other; and there, kneeling, he bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards like a crab, without uttering a single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch. Nor are there any more ceremonies observed in the audience he gives, even to... | |
 | 1842 - 326 pàgines
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." After a second audience, to which they were invited, chiefly for the purpose... | |
 | Talbot Watts - 1852 - 406 pàgines
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government;... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 416 pàgines
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of thia mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 474 pàgines
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, half-civilized government... | |
 | George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 pàgines
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch. Nor are there any more ceremonies observed in the audience he gives even to... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pàgines
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backward like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." There is every reason to believe, from the tenacity with which customs, humiliating... | |
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Accordingly, he crawled on his hands and knees to a place shown him, between the presents ranged in due order on one side, and the place where the emperor sat on the other; and... 
