Narrative of the expedition to China, from the commencement of the war, Band 1 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Narrative of the Expedition to China, from the Commencement of the War John Elliot Bingham Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admiral allowed anchor anchorage appeared APPENDIX arms arrived attack attempt authorities barbarians boats Bocca Tigris bond British Canton Canton River Captain Elliot celestial Chekeang chests China Chinese Chuenpee Chusan coast commands compradore consequence crew delivered Dent Dent's directed dispatched dollars drug duty edict emperor English enter factories fire flag force foreigners governor guns harbour high commissioner Hong Kong Hong merchants honour Howqua hundred imperial inhabitants island issued junks Keshen Kwang-tung land laws Lieutenant lieutenant-governor Lin's Macao Madagascar majesty's ship mandarins memorial month natives naval Ning-po officers opium trade orders party Pei-Ho Pekin Percival Keene port present proceed proceeded proclamation provinces punishment purchase quantity received receiving-ships refused residents returned river round sail sent shore Sincapore smuggling soldiers squadron steamer superintendent surrender sycee Tang Thomas Coutts Ting-hai tion troops vessels Volage Whampoa whole
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 372 - LOCHIEL. False Wizard, avaunt ! I have marshalled my clan, Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one ! They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Seite 39 - It will be found, on examination, that the smokers of opium are idle, lazy vagrants, having no useful purpose before them, and are unworthy of regard, or even of contempt.
Seite 4 - Peerage and Baronetage' is the most complete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever offered to the public.
Seite 344 - Kong, shall enjoy full security and protection, according to the principles and practice of British law, so long as they shall continue to conform to the authority of her majesty's government in and over the island of Hong Kong, hereby duly constituted and proclaimed.
Seite 63 - The said superintendent came, I find, to Canton, in obedience to commands received from his sovereign, to exercise control over the merchants and seamen, to repress the depraved, and to extirpate evils. Having such commands given to him, he must needs also have powers. It is very inexplicable then, that these boats having, in violation of the laws, entered the river, he should now find it difficult to send them out again, owing to his not having the confidence of all.
Seite 4 - The most complete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever given to the public." — Sun. " The best genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, and the first authority on all questions affecting the aristocracy.
Seite 41 - ... the duties of their rank and attend to the public good; the others, to cultivate their talents and become fit for public usefulness. None of these, therefore, must be permitted to contract a practice so bad, or to walk in a path which will lead only to the utter waste of their time and destruction of their property. If, however, the laws enacted against the practice be made too severe, the result will be mutual connivance. It becomes my duty, then, to request that it be enacted, that any officer,...
Seite 121 - ... cannot be surpassed) : — Therefore, we the commissioner and the governor have given strict commands to the local officers, civil and military, at every point, by land and by water, faithfully to intercept and wholly to cut off from the English all supplies, that they may be made to fear and to pay the tribute of fealty.
Seite 243 - His unwhisperables were of a light blue figured Nankin crape, cut much in the modern Greek style, being immediately below the knee tucked into the black satin mandarin boots, that in shape much resemble the old hessian, once so common in this country, with soles some two inches thick, the sides of which were kept nicely white, Warren's jet not yet having been introduced. To this part of his dress a Chinese dandy pays as much attention as our exquisites do to the formation of a
Seite 367 - Your city is spared because the gracious Sovereign of Great Britain has commanded the high English officers to remember that the good and peaceful people must be tenderly considered. But if the high officers of the Celestial Court offer the least obstruction to the British forces in their present stations, then it will become necessary to answer force by force, and the city may suffer terrible injury.