THE TAEPING REBELLION.

"Who ponders national events shall find
An awful balancing of loss and gain,
Joy based on sorrow, good with ill combined,
And proud deliverance issuing out of pain
And direful throes; as if the All-ruling Mind,
With whose perfection it consists to ordain
Volcanic burst, earthquake, and hurricane,
Dealt in like sort with feeble human kind
By laws immutable."

WORDSWORTH.

THE TAEPING REBELLION

IN CHINA;

A NARRATIVE OF ITS RISE AND PROGRESS,

BASED UPON ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION
OBTAINED IN CHINA.

BY COMMANDER LINDESAY BRINE, R.N., F.R.G.S.,

LATELY EMPLOYED IN CHINESE WATERS.

WITH MAP AND PLANS.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1862.

The right of Translation is reserved.

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