An Account of the Proceedings of the Government Metropolitan Police in the City of CantonHardy & Walker, 1840 - 79 Seiten |
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Seite 76 - God, to teach their children from the time they get up In the morning until the time they go to bed...
Seite 23 - And the Chief Commissioner issued an order against all crying of wares, and all ballad singing, and playing of musical instruments in the streets ; and then if the police heard a poor woman cry fresh eggs, they arrested her, and...
Seite 76 - King, that upon any occasion they should be ready to spill the last drop of their blood in his service...
Seite 23 - And if they found a blind fiddler with a dog leading him, they killed the dog, and took the...
Seite 59 - Canton, the fine should be for the first offence so much, for the second offence so much...
Seite 27 - I'll make your head ache. Porter— You o' the camblet, get up o' the rail : 111 pick you o'er the pales else.
Seite 45 - No, God forbid that we should torture any animal: we were only hunting.
Seite 67 - Mandarin received them most graciously, and said that nothing in the world would give him so much pleasure as...
Seite 25 - You are vagrants and vagabonds, and must be taken before the magistrates, because you have no mode of livelihood.
