 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1837 - 604 pages
...majesty's benevolent predecessor, surnamed the Profound, directing the governor of Canton to adopt measures to control and restrain the barbarians addressed him...Upon those who are obedient, it lavishes its rich favors ; but to be the rebellious and disodedient it displays its terrors. Respecting the English trade... | |
 | Charles Toogood Downing - China - 1838 - 390 pages
...benevolent predecessor, surnamed ' The Profound,' directing the governor of Canton to adopt measures to control and restrain the barbarians, addressed...' Respecting the English trade at Canton, and the anchorage-grounds of their merchantships and of their naval convoys, regulations have long since been... | |
 | Charles Toogood Downing - China - 1838 - 354 pages
...benevolent predecessor, surnamed ' The Profound/ directing the governor of Canton to adopt measures to control and restrain the barbarians, addressed...' Respecting the English trade at Canton, and the anchorage-grounds of their merchantships and of their naval convoys, regulations have long since been... | |
 | Algernon Sydney Thelwall - China - 1839 - 214 pages
...them always fixed rules and regulations. Upon those who are obedient, it lavishes its rich favors ; but to the rebellious and disobedient, it displays...trade at Canton, and the anchorage grounds of their merchant ships and of their naval convoys, regulations have long since been made. If the people aforesaid... | |
 | John Slade (editor of the Canton register.) - 1839 - 286 pages
...majesty's benevolent predecessor/surnamed the Profound, directing the governor of Canton to adopt measures to control and restrain the barbarians, addressed...terms : " The empire, in ruling and restraining the baibarians beyond its boundaries, gives to them always fixed rules and regulations. Upon those who... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1847 - 558 pages
...majesty's benevolent predecessor surnamed the Profound, directing the governor of Canton to adopt measures to control and restrain the barbarians, addressed him in the following terms : ' The Emperor, in ruling and restraining the barbarians beyond its boundaries, gives to them always fixed... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes - Asia - 1909 - 1096 pages
...inconceivable. China was the only land of culture, and, in the words of an imperial edict of 1818, "the Empire, in ruling and restraining the barbarians...rebellious and disobedient it displays its terrors." " If the barbarians are contumelious, they should be chastised; if brought under subjection, they should... | |
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The empire, in ruling and restraining the barbarians beyond its boundaries, gives to them always fixed rules and regulations. Upon those who are obedient, it lavishes its rich favours ; but to the rebellious and disobedient, it displays its terrors. 