 ... fair as a lily or lovely as a rose, but that the lily was fair or the rose lovely as her Majesty. She tried to spread the belief that she was the Supreme Being by forcing flowers artificially and then in the presence of her courtiers ordering them...  A Chinese Biographical Dictionary - Page 882by Herbert Allen Giles - 1898 - 1022 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Edgar Geil - China - 1911 - 634 pages
...then in the presence of her courtiers ordering them to bloom. On one occasion she ordered some peonies to bloom; and when they did not instantly obey, she...prohibited the cultivation of peonies ever afterwards. IN THE (h'H MOON ONE CANNOT LEND BIS TAN by descent except for a slight infusion of foreign blood six... | |
 | William Edgar Geil - China - 1911 - 648 pages
...then in the presence of her courtiers ordering them to bloom. On one occasion she ordered some peonies to bloom; and when they did not instantly obey, she...prohibited the cultivation of peonies ever afterwards. IH THK dTU HOOK OME OANNOT LENO HIM FAH by descent except for a slight infusion of foreign blood six... | |
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