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Page 180 - The great ministers of the Celestial Empire are not permitted to have private intercourse by letter with outside barbarians. If the said barbarian Eye throws in private letters, I the governor will not at all receive or look at them.
Page 180 - I, the Governor, will not at all receive or look at them. " With regard to the barbarian factory of the Company without the walls of the city, it is a place of temporary residence for barbarians coming to Canton to trade. They are permitted only to eat, sleep, buy and sell in the factories. They are not permitted to bring up wives and daughters ; nor are they permitted to go out to ramble about.
Page 179 - The celestial Empire appoints officers, — civil ones to rule the people, military ones to intimidate the wicked. The petty affairs of commerce are to be directed by the merchants themselves. The officers have nothing to hear on the subject.
Page 6 - ... in order to drown the world sunk in iniquity beyond all mercy and forgiveness; but, in the very depth of the tempest terrors, behold the ark of deliverance for the man who was faithful amid an offending race, riding safely on the top of the swelling waters ; and no sooner is the purpose accomplished, and execution done upon the guilty, than, lo! " the bow of hope is seen in the cloud, and the promise of mercy is declared to arenovated...
Page 180 - Our first object should be to get a settlement on the same terms that every Chinaman, Pagan, Turk, or Christian, sits down in England. This, no doubt, would be a very staggering proposition in the face of a Red Chop, but say to the Emperor, " Adopt this, or abide the consequences,
Page 180 - If the said barbarian eye throws in private letters, I, the governor, will not at all receive or look at them. With regard to the barbarian factory of the company, without the walls of the city, it is a place of temporary residence for barbarians coming to Canton to trade. They are permitted only to eat, sleep, buy, and sell in the factories. They are not permitted to go out to ramble about.
Page 5 - Thus, for instance we should be enabled to drink our coffee in tha groves of Yemen, with turbaned Arabs and loaded camels around us; and, under that balmy sky. we could look across the Red Sea, where there is in one place an assemblage of worm-built reefs, extending line upon line, and white with the foam produced by an angry wind, and in another place reeking with the steam of volcanic fires, while the bottom is as gay as a garden with the vegetation of the deep, and the waters are literally encumbered...
Page 5 - ... amid all the vicissitudes, reverses, and progressions of our part of the world. We should never taste the stimulating flavour of cinnamon without being borne in thought to Ceylon, with its rich fields of rice ; its beautiful copses, which furnish this wholesome and exhilarating spice; its tangled and swampy woods, with their herds of gigantic elephants; its more dry and inland forests, peopled with countless thousands of apes, which make the early morn literally hideous with their cries, and...
Page 6 - ... swampy woods, with their herds of gigantic elephants) its more dry and Inland forests, peopled with countless thousands of apes, which make the early morn literally hideous with their cries, and the females of some of which may be occasionally found descending to the brook.
Page 12 - This is an useful, valuable, elegant, and carefully executed undertaking, embracing all the most recent improvements. It is got up on a liberal scale that does great credit to the publisher. We heartily recommend it to the traveller, and consider it an acquisition to the public seminary equally as the private library of the gentleman.