| Peter Auber - 1834 - 442 pàgines
...the letter from the Emperor. " Your Majesty's kingdom is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties and obedient to its laws,...the perfection of our government. Your Majesty has dispatched messengers with letters for our perusal and consideration ; we find that they are dictated... | |
| 1835 - 742 pàgines
...given by his Celestial Majesty. " Your Majesty's kingdom is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties and obedient to its laws,...the perfection of our government. Your Majesty has dispatched messengers with letters for our perusal and consideration ; we find that they are dictated... | |
| 1835 - 746 pàgines
...Celestial Majesty. " Your Majesty's kingdom is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is ob-- servant of its duties and obedient to its laws, beholding...the perfection of our government. Your Majesty has dispatched messengers with letters for our perusal and consideration ; we find that they are dictated... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1847 - 558 pàgines
...of the Emperor of China : — " Your Majesty's kingdom is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties, and obedient to its laws,...perfection of our government. Your Majesty has despatched messengers with letters for our perusal ; we find that they are dictated by appropriate sentiments... | |
| Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 446 pàgines
...doubt much interest the reader. " Your majesty's kingdom is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties and obedient to its laws,...the perfection of our government. Your majesty has dispatched messengers with letters for our perusal and consideration ; we find that they are dictated... | |
| 1891 - 790 pàgines
...pious memory : — " Your Majesty's kingdom," he wrote, " is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties, and obedient to its laws,...respectfully admiring the perfection of our government." A man who could pen such lines to our sovereign was not likely to put up with a refusal from that sovereign's... | |
| Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1894 - 506 pàgines
...pious memory: — "Your Majesty's kingdom," he wrote, " is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties, and obedient to its laws,...glory of our empire, and respectfully admiring the perfaction of our government." A man who could pen such lines to our sovereign was not likely to put... | |
| Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1895 - 456 pàgines
...pious memory: — "Your Majesty's kingdom," he wrote, "is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties, and obedient to its laws,...respectfully admiring the perfection of our government." A man who could pen such lines to our sovereign was not likely to put up with a refusal from that sovereign's... | |
| Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1899 - 494 pàgines
...Emperor, " is at a remote distance beyond the seas, but is observant of its duties and obedient to our laws, beholding from afar the glory of our Empire,...perfection of our government. Your Majesty has despatched messengers with letters for our perusal ; we find that they are dictated by appropriate sentiments... | |
| Harold Edward Gorst - 1899 - 332 pàgines
...A letter from the emperor Kiaking in 1806 to the king of England, which described the English as " beholding from afar the glory of our empire and respectfully admiring the perfection of our government," may be taken as a sample of the attitude towards Europeans persisted in by the Chinese anthorities.... | |
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