ChinaSands, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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Pàgina 245 - Yang-tsze region is of the greatest importance as concerning the whole position (or interests) of China, and it is out of the question that territory (in it) should be mortgaged, leased, or ceded to another Power.
Pàgina 229 - The Chinese authorities shall, at all times, afford the fullest protection to the persons and property of British subjects, whenever these shall have been subjected to insult or violence. In all cases of incendiarism or robbery, the local authorities shall at once take the necessary steps for the recovery of the stolen property, the suppression of disorder, and the arrest of the guilty parties, whom they will...
Pàgina 20 - Each of these houses contains at least 12 men, whilst some contain 20 and some 40,— not that these are all masters, but inclusive of the journeymen who work under the masters. And yet all these craftsmen had full occupation, for many other cities of the kingdom are supplied from this city with what they require. The...
Pàgina 244 - Highnesses and your Excellencies have more than once intimated to me that the Chinese Government were aware of the great importance that has always been attached by Great Britain to the retention in Chinese possession of the Yang-tsze region, now entirely hers, as providing security for the free course and development of trade.
Pàgina 145 - Granville's discourse on tea-roses to the gentleman who sought an interview on some important question connected with China, but it fulfils the same purpose. When they do speak, they all speak at once, and, like Mr. Puff's friends, their unanimity is something wonderful, and their courage rises to heroism. What they do say can of course be neither understood nor answered ; so much the better, since time has been killed, with the arrow of controversy still in the quiver. The Foreign Minister's lips...
Pàgina 174 - It is in addition permitted to French missionaries to rent and purchase land in all the provinces, and to erect buildings thereon at pleasure...
Pàgina 20 - ... foremost, then, the document stated the city of Kinsay to be so great that it hath an hundred miles of compass. And there are in it twelve thousand bridges of stone, for the most part so lofty that a great fleet could pass beneath them. And let no man marvel that there are so many bridges, for you see the whole city stands as it were in the water and surrounded by water, so that a great many bridges are required to give free passage about it.
Pàgina 55 - ... was as remarkable as it was unexpected by me. In an instant the character of the crowd was changed ; the hooting and pelting had stopped to hear the barbarian talking in the familiar words of Confucius, the old men bowed approvingly, and a number of boys jumped forward to show us the way. This scene will appear more impressive by contrast. if we suppose a couple of Chinamen, followed by a crowd of a few thousand American men and boys, and if we suppose the two strangers to turn and quote in good...
Pàgina 166 - I cannot pursue him. This day I have seen Laotze, and he is like the dragon. At his voice my mouth remained wide open, and I was not able to shut it; my tongue came out with astonishment, and I have never been able to draw it back again ! My soul was plunged into perplexity, and has not been able to recover its former tranquillity.
Pàgina 65 - The trade in articles of pomp, elegance, or curiosity, whether carried on by exchange or by money payments, supposes the existence of luxury ; now luxury, which is the abundance of what is superfluous among certain citizens, supposes the want of necessaries among others. The more horses the rich put to their chariots, the more people will have to walk on foot ; the more their houses are vast and magnificent, the more those of the poor are small and miserable ; the more their tables are covered with...