China Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical: With Some Account of Ava and the Burmese, Siam and AnamH. G. Bohn, 1853 - 521 עמודים |
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Anam Anamese ancient appear army bamboo Bang-kok boats British Buddhist Burmans Burmese called Canton Canton river capital carried ceremony chief China Chinese Christian coast Cochin-China Confucius conquest court Crawfurd death dress dynasty elephant embassy emperor empire English Europe European favour feet foreign Formosa French gold governor ground honour Hué immense imperial India inhabitants island Jesuits Kamboja Kang-hy king kingdom Kublai Kublai Khan labour ladies land Lord Macartney Macao majesty mandarins Mantchu Martaban Menam ment merchants miles Ming dynasty minister mission missionaries Mongol mountains Nanking nations native negociations neighbours Ningpo officers opium pagoda palace peace Pegu Peking population Portuguese possession present priests prince province Rangoon rank reign rice river royal sent ships Siam Siamese silk soon sovereign stockade talapoins Tartars temples throne Tonquin town trade treaty troops vessels viceroy walls whole Yun-nan
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עמוד 225 - The engrossing taste of all ranks and degrees in China for opium, a drug whose importation has of late years exceeded the aggregate value of every other English import combined, deserves some particular notice, especially in connection with the revenues of British India, of which it forms an important item.
עמוד 11 - When the King of France," says Barrow, " introduced the luxury of silk stockings, the peasantry of the middle provinces of China were clothed in silks from head to foot ; and when the nobility of England were sleeping on straw, a peasant of j China had his mat and his pillow, and the man in office enjoyed his silken mattress.
עמוד 219 - Tea is of a cooling nature, and, if drunk too freely, will produce exhaustion and lassitude. Country people, before drinking it, add ginger and salt to counteract this cooling property. It is an exceedingly useful plant.
עמוד 491 - ... which a sliding door behind the throne opened with a quick and sharp noise. He mounted a flight of steps which led to the throne from behind with apparent difficulty, and as if tottering under the load of dress and ornaments on his person. His dress consisted of a tunic of gold tissue, ornamented with jewels.
עמוד 330 - The prodigious strength of these animals was far beyond anything which I could have supposed. Some of them tossed the tiger to a distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, and could offer no resistance. We could not reflect without horror, that these very individual animals were the same that have for years executed the sentence of the law upon the many malefactors condemned to death.
עמוד 76 - Khan took a pleasure in hearing accounts of whatever was new to him respecting the customs and manners of people, and the peculiar circumstances of distant countries, he endeavoured, wherever he went, to obtain correct information on these subjects, and made notes of all he saw and heard, in order to gratify the curiosity of his master. In short, during seventeen years that he continued in his service, he rendered himself so useful that he was employed on confidential missions to every part of the...
עמוד 444 - In the years 1186 and 87, the Kula-pyu, or white strangers of the west, fastened a quarrel upon the Lord of the Golden Palace. They landed at Rangoon, took that place and Prome, and were permitted to advance as far as Yandabo ; for the king, from motives of piety and regard to life, made no effort whatever to oppose them. The strangers had spent vast sums of money in their enterprise ; and by the time they reached Yandabo, their resources were exhausted, and they were in great distress.
עמוד 6 - Made visionary fabrics round them rise, And airy spectres skim before their eyes ; Of talismans and sigils knew the power, And careful watch'd the planetary hour. Superior, and alone, Confucius stood, Who taught that useful science, to be good.
עמוד 163 - ... and thus order was preserved among them. For some time, this female corsair maintained the sovereignty of the Chinese seas; insomuch that no merchant ships could navigate them in safety without a pass from her, which she granted on payment of a certain toll, and this pass protected them from any pirate vessels they might encounter on their passage. At length, disputes arose among the pirate captains; and the chieftainess, beginning to find her position a difficult one to maintain, concluded a...
עמוד 157 - The unfortunate mandarin had needlessly exposed himself to this danger, since it does not appear that the Emperor ever entertained a thought of placing his son-in-law on the throne. Of his own four surviving sons, the youngest was his favourite; and to that prince, who assumed the name of Kea-king, he determined to resign his empire. The sixtieth anniversary of his accession was celebrated by a grand jubilee throughout China, when many acts of munificence were performed by the Emperor; and among...