A Short History of China: Being an Account for the General Reader of an Ancient Empire and PeopleAllen, 1893 - 436 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... difficulty . His troubles probably shortened his life , for he died when he was only fifty - three , leaving the ... difficulties and dangers , when death sud- denly cut short her adventurous career . The popular legend is that this ...
... difficulty . His troubles probably shortened his life , for he died when he was only fifty - three , leaving the ... difficulties and dangers , when death sud- denly cut short her adventurous career . The popular legend is that this ...
Pàgina 20
... difficulties , and even the natural process of decay ; and when they made their final exit from history it was in a graceful manner , and without the execration of the masses , which generally attends the fall of greatness and the loss ...
... difficulties , and even the natural process of decay ; and when they made their final exit from history it was in a graceful manner , and without the execration of the masses , which generally attends the fall of greatness and the loss ...
Pàgina 28
... difficulties in carrying out his scheme for forming a regular army . He overcame all obstacles , and gathered under his banner an army formidable by reason of its efficiency and equipment , as well as for its numerical strength . Having ...
... difficulties in carrying out his scheme for forming a regular army . He overcame all obstacles , and gathered under his banner an army formidable by reason of its efficiency and equipment , as well as for its numerical strength . Having ...
Pàgina 33
... before his whole court . His extravagance of living landed the Chinese government in fresh difficulties , and he brought the exchequer to the D verge of bankruptcy . Nor was he a humane ruler A LONG PERIOD OF DISUNION . 33.
... before his whole court . His extravagance of living landed the Chinese government in fresh difficulties , and he brought the exchequer to the D verge of bankruptcy . Nor was he a humane ruler A LONG PERIOD OF DISUNION . 33.
Pàgina 43
... difficulty in establishing his own power and in preserving the Sung dynasty . He even succeeded in imparting a new vigour to it , for on the advice of his mother , who pointed out to him that " for nearly 200 years the nation appears to ...
... difficulty in establishing his own power and in preserving the Sung dynasty . He even succeeded in imparting a new vigour to it , for on the advice of his mother , who pointed out to him that " for nearly 200 years the nation appears to ...
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A Short History of China: An Account for the General Reader of an Ancient ... Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger Visualització completa - 1900 |
A Short History of China: An Account for the General Reader of an Ancient ... Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1900 |
A Short History of China: An Account for the General Reader of an Ancient ... Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1900 |
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ARTICLE attack British Burgevine campaign Canton Canton river capital capture carried chief Chinese army Chinese authorities Chinese government Ching Chung Wang command Commissioner conquest Consul Corea death declared defence doubt duty dynasty Emperor of China Empire enemy English Europeans execution favour force foreign fortune French frontier Galdan garrison Genghis honour hostility Imperial Imperialists Kanghi Kashgar Kashgaria Keen Lung Khan Khokand Kins Kublai Leaoutung Lord Elgin Mahomedan Major Gordon Manchu mandarins ment merchants military Ming ministers Mongols Nankin Noorhachu officers opium palace peace Pekin Plenipotentiary ports position possession Prince Kung province rebels reign river ruler Russian seemed sent Shanghai siege Sir Thomas Wade Soochow sovereign subjects succeeded success Sung surrender Szchuen Taepings Taitsong Taoukwang Tartar throne Tibet Tientsin tion town trade Treaty Treaty of Tientsin troops Viceroy victory Vouti Wang Khan Wang Mang Wou Sankwei Yunnan
Passatges populars
Pàgina 308 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Pàgina 383 - ... have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say: Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., a Major-General in the employ of the East India Company, &c.; And His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China...
Pàgina 384 - Government the sum of three millions of dollars, on account of debts due to British subjects by some of the said Hong merchants, or Co-Hong, who have become insolvent, and who owe very large sums of money to subjects of her Britannic Majesty.
Pàgina 383 - His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint...
Pàgina 393 - HER MAJESTY the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous...
Pàgina 385 - Merchandise may be conveyed by Chinese Merchants, to any Province or City in the interior of the Empire of China on paying a further amount as Transit Duties which shall not exceed per cent, on the tariff value of such goods.
Pàgina 409 - It is farther understood that so long as the laws of the two countries differ from each other, there can be but one principle to guide judicial proceedings in mixed cases in China, namely, that the case is tried by the official of the defendant's nationality ; the official of the plaintiff's nationality merely attending to watch the proceedings in the interests of justice. If the officer so attending be dissatisfied with the proceedings, it will be in his power to protest against them in detail....
Pàgina 401 - British merchant cannot agree with the Customhouse officer, then each party shall choose so many chests out of every hundred, which being first weighed in gross, shall afterwards be tared, and the average tare upon these chests shall be assumed as the tare upon the whole, and upon this principle shall the tare be fixed upon all other goods and packages.
Pàgina 395 - ... under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through.
Pàgina 395 - ... handed over to the nearest consul for punishment, but he must not be subjected to any ill-usage in excess of necessary restraint. No passport need be applied for by persons going on excursions from the ports open to trade to a distance not exceeding 100 li, and for a period not exceeding five days. The provisions of this article do not apply to crews of ships, for the due restraint of whom regulations will be drawn up by the consul and the local authorities.