The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era: As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, Volume 1W. Blackwood & sons, 1900 - China |
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Page 43 - of Heaven," however, whose compassion is as boundless as the ocean, cannot deny to those who are in distress from want of food, through adverse seas and currents, the necessary means of continuing their voyage. When supplied they must no longer loiter, but depart at once. Respect this.
Page 274 - They carry off persons in order to extort ransoms for them ; they falsely assume the characters of police officers; they build fast boats professedly to guard the grain-fields, and into these they put from ten to twenty men, who cruise along the rivers, violently plundering the boats of
Page 298 - From China :— The whole world just now is raving mad with a passion for killing and slaying, and it is difficult for a person in his sober senses, like myself, to keep his own among them. Again :— I have seen more to disgust me with my fellow-countrymen
Page 298 - the East heard a sentence which was reconcilable with the hypothesis that Christianity had ever come into the world. Detestation, contempt, ferocity, vengeance, whether Chinamen or Indians be the object.
Page 45 - of Mr Hunter, himself an actor as well as an eyewitness. It furnishes a perfect illustration of the reign of sham which prevails generally in China :— We anchored on the inside of the island of Namoa close by two English brigs, the Omega and Governor Findlay. Inshore of us were riding at anchor two men-of-war junks, with much bunting displayed; one bore the flag of a
Page 370 - Prince Kung was no longer accessible. . . . He professed to be engaged with more important matters. APPENDIX I. NOTE ON OUR PRESENT POSITION AND THE STATE OF OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA, BY CONSUL ALCOCK,
Page 336 - As the echo of Mr Bruce, Dr Rennie's comment on the proceeding is worth noting. " Looks very like merely gaining time, in hopes that, before that period expires, all foreign residence in
Page 298 - China whom I find on board is all for blood and massacre on a great scale. ^The perennial fallacy that underlies the
Page 213 - been attempted. The result was the historical American clipper of the middle of the century, beautiful to look on with her cloud of white cotton canvas, covering every ocean highway. These were vessels of large capacity, carrying one - half more dead - weight than their registered tonnage;