The Chinese Repository, Volumen6Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams proprietors, 1838 |
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... arrival and labors in Japan . 237 461 107 YANG Yuchun , death of , noticed 255 273 Yárkand 307 Yarkand , its position 575 Yédo , description of the Bay of 494 Yédo , the capital of Japan 459 Yellow river , the gods of the 164 29 170 356 ...
... arrival and labors in Japan . 237 461 107 YANG Yuchun , death of , noticed 255 273 Yárkand 307 Yarkand , its position 575 Yédo , description of the Bay of 494 Yédo , the capital of Japan 459 Yellow river , the gods of the 164 29 170 356 ...
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... arrival there , he would be expected to change his own costume , diet , or style of bowing , for that of the French ? Each , in his way , would be a match for the other . But what could be more absurd than a grave Chinese undertaking to ...
... arrival there , he would be expected to change his own costume , diet , or style of bowing , for that of the French ? Each , in his way , would be a match for the other . But what could be more absurd than a grave Chinese undertaking to ...
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... arrival at the mouth of the Peiho . Paper 2d : by a Correspondent . [ This article was in hand before that on the prospects of China ' was written ; but we are not aware that our own remarks were modified in the slightest degree by it ...
... arrival at the mouth of the Peiho . Paper 2d : by a Correspondent . [ This article was in hand before that on the prospects of China ' was written ; but we are not aware that our own remarks were modified in the slightest degree by it ...
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... arrived off the Ladrone islands , being afraid of the risk he ran . Had " Mr. Plum " done the same , and it astonishes us that he did not , the embassy would have found itself , in China , without an interpreter ; or , had the Chinese ...
... arrived off the Ladrone islands , being afraid of the risk he ran . Had " Mr. Plum " done the same , and it astonishes us that he did not , the embassy would have found itself , in China , without an interpreter ; or , had the Chinese ...
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... arrival of lord Napier , in 1834 , we adverted to the existence of a " Canton Chamber of Commerce . " The record of passing occur- rences , which it was then our aim to give , did not require us to be- stow on that institution any ...
... arrival of lord Napier , in 1834 , we adverted to the existence of a " Canton Chamber of Commerce . " The record of passing occur- rences , which it was then our aim to give , did not require us to be- stow on that institution any ...
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Página 517 - Government and the military be prohibited, these being all taken from the scholars and common people, what ground will be found for any such partial prohibition to rest upon ? Besides, having a clear conviction that the thing is highly injurious to men, to permit it, notwithstanding, to pervade the Empire — nay, even to lay on it a duty — is conduct quite incompatible with the yet uninjured dignity of the great and illustrious Celestial Empire.
Página 517 - Hung-maou (Red-haired) came thither, and having manufactured opium, seduced some of the natives into the habit of smoking it. From these the mania for it rapidly spread throughout the whole nation, so that in process of time the natives became feeble and enervated, submitted to the foreign rule, and ultimately were completely subjugated.
Página 491 - The letter concludes with these words : "You mention, that you have stationed a vukil in Nipa'l, this is a matter of no consequence, but as the ra'ja' from his youth and inexperience, and from the novelty of the circumstance, has imbibed suspicions, if you would, out of kindness towards us, and in consideration of the ties of friendship, withdraw your vakil, it would be better; and we should feel inexpressibly grateful to you.
Página 472 - So long as the sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan ; and let all know, that the King of Spain himself, or the Christians' God, or the great God of all, if he violate this command, shall pay for it with his head.
Página 559 - With the exception of medicines, we can dispense with everything that is brought us from abroad. The stuffs and other foreign commodities are of no real benefit to us. All the gold, silver, and copper extracted from the mines during the reign of Ogosho-Sama, and since his time, is gone, and, what is still more to be regretted, for things we could do well without.
Página 515 - ... in silver : now the salt merchants have all become involved, and the existing state of the salt trade in every province is abject in the extreme. How is this occasioned but by the unnoticed, oozing out of silver? If the easily exhaustible stores of the central spring go to fill up the wide and fathomless gulf of the- outer seas...
Página 563 - ... brothers ; those who walk hastily before their seniors, are undutiful brothers." " If any one is twenty years older than yourself, treat him as you do your father ; if one is ten years older, treat him as your elder brother ; if only five years older, follow him close to his shoulder.