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... Canton . By the spirited conduct of the Committee of Supercargoes at Canton , in putting an entire stop to the trade till satis- faction was obtained , and thus crippling the commerce and revenue of the province , the viceroy had ...
... Canton . By the spirited conduct of the Committee of Supercargoes at Canton , in putting an entire stop to the trade till satis- faction was obtained , and thus crippling the commerce and revenue of the province , the viceroy had ...
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... Canton , the embassy on the 25th of July entered the Gulph of Petchelee , in the Yellow Sea . There the Alceste layed to , and the Lyra was dispatched with a message to announce their arrival . The Chinese affect such outrageous ...
... Canton , the embassy on the 25th of July entered the Gulph of Petchelee , in the Yellow Sea . There the Alceste layed to , and the Lyra was dispatched with a message to announce their arrival . The Chinese affect such outrageous ...
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... Canton . The excess of population was here most striking . I counted two hundred spectators upon one junk , and these vessels were innumerable . The pyramids of salt were so covered with them , that they actually became pyramids of men ...
... Canton . The excess of population was here most striking . I counted two hundred spectators upon one junk , and these vessels were innumerable . The pyramids of salt were so covered with them , that they actually became pyramids of men ...
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... Canton with a cannonade of a few hours continuance . After breakfast , on the 2nd of September , the em bassy continued its journey towards the coast , and reached Tien - sing on the 6th . " Millet - fields , willow- groves , junks ...
... Canton with a cannonade of a few hours continuance . After breakfast , on the 2nd of September , the em bassy continued its journey towards the coast , and reached Tien - sing on the 6th . " Millet - fields , willow- groves , junks ...
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... Canton . The road from the one province to the other is through the famous pass of Mee - ling . The baggage , stores , and presents , were now landed , and no less than three thousand persons were employed in carrying the va- rious ...
... Canton . The road from the one province to the other is through the famous pass of Mee - ling . The baggage , stores , and presents , were now landed , and no less than three thousand persons were employed in carrying the va- rious ...
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Seite 146 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forwards.
Seite 78 - Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands : "The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employed the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each panel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.
Seite 55 - ... one grain for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on to sixty-four. This the king readily granted ; but when the amount was reckoned up, he had not wheat enough in his whole kingdom to pay it.
Seite 281 - But there was sufficient proof that she had extended her care much further, as all her clothing, besides being calculated for real service, showed great taste, and exhibited no little variety of ornament. The materials, though rude, were very curiously wrought, and so judiciously placed as to make the whole of her garb have a very pleasing, though rather romantic, appearance.
Seite 144 - The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower about sixty feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of the size and length of a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along.
Seite 142 - At this place we have been joined by several large bodies of pilgrims, perhaps 2000 in number, who have come from various parts of Northern India. Some of them, with whom I have conversed, say, that they have been two months on their march, travelling slowly in the hottest season of the year, with their wives and children. Some old persons are among them, who wish to die at Juggernaut. Numbers of pilgrims die on the road ; and their bodies generally remain unburied.
Seite 152 - ... twere in anger, suddenly snatch at the middle of the inside, if it be taffeta at the least; and so, by that means, your costly lining is betrayed, or else by the pretty advantage of compliment. But one note by the way do I especially woo you to, the neglect of which makes many of our gallants cheap and ordinary, that by no means you be seen above four turns ; but in the fifth make yourself away, either in some of the semsters...
Seite 144 - A body of men, having green branches or palms in their hands, approached with great celerity. The people opened a way for them ; and when they had come up to the throne, they fell down before him that sat thereon, and worshipped. And the multitude again sent forth a voice, ' like the sound of a great thunder.
Seite 57 - She fails — she sinks — as dies the lamp In charnel airs, or cavern-damp, So quickly do his baleful sighs Quench all the sweet light of her eyes. One struggle — and his pain is past — Her lover is no longer living ! One kiss the maiden gives, one last, Long kiss, which she expires in giving! "Sleep...
Seite 146 - The horrid solemnities still continue. Yesterday a woman devoted herself to the idol. She laid herself down on the road in an oblique direction so that the wheel did not kill her instantaneously, as is generally the case ; but she died in a few hours. This morning as I passed the Place of Skulls, nothing remained of her but her bones.