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ambassador appeared arrived bamboo banks bassador black tea boats British called canal Canton Canton province ceremony Chang Tajin China Chinese colour commissioners considerable consists court cultivation distance Duke embassy emperor empire English European excellency favour Fokien George Staunton Grand Canal green tea ground Hien Hong merchants hundred imperial journey junks Keang Kinchae kind Kwong land late legate Lord Amherst Lord Macartney lordship Macao majesty mandarins manufacture ment merchants miles military morning Nanking natural nearly neighbourhood nese night o'clock observed occasion officers opium party passed Peiho Peking person plants porcelain portion Poyang lake present principal proceeded prostration proved province reached rice river sador seemed sent ships shore side silk soldiers soon species specimens squadron stone stream Tartar temple Tien-tsin tion town trade Tung-chow vessel viceroy walk walls whole Yellow river
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Page 234 - For the better preservation of harmony in future, Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and His Majesty the Emperor of China mutually agree that, in accordance with the universal practice of great and friendly nations, Her Majesty the Queen may, if she...
Page 187 - The coinage of this paper money is authenticated with as much form and ceremony as if it were actually of pure gold or silver ; for to each note a number of officers, specially appointed, not only subscribe their names, but affix their...
Page 50 - The Chinese put faith in the external developments of the skull, and are therefore, to a certain extent, phrenologists. They look for the principal characteristics of a man in his forehead, and of a woman on the back of the cranium.
Page 76 - Every turn of the cylinder raises a portion of the rope equal to the circumference of the thicker part, but at the same time lets down a portion equal to the circumference of the thinner ; and, as the weight is suspended by a pulley, it rises at each turn through a space equal to only half the difference between the span of the thicker and thinner parts of the cylinder.
Page 43 - Europe, some time previous to the adoption of the inductive method in philosophy. The constitutional ingenuity and industry of the people has led them to fall upon various practical results, in spite, as it would seem, of a feature in their character and habits which is opposed to the progress of knowledge. They profess to set no value on abstract science, apart from some obvious and immediate end of utility.
Page 233 - China agrees to release, unconditionally, all subjects of Her Britannic Majesty (whether natives of Europe or India), who may be in confinement at this moment in any part of the Chinese Empire.
Page 24 - Like all other conjurors (says Sir David Brewster), the artist has contrived to make the observer deceive himself. The stamped figures on the back are used for this purpose. The spectrum in the luminous area is not an image of the figures on the back. The figures are a copy of the picture which the artist has drawn on the face of the mirror, and so concealed by polishing, that it is invisible in ordinary lights, and can be brought out only in the sun's rays.
Page 45 - Which stories of all times report ? Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees? The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, 710 Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, (Our Synod calls Humiliations) The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt.
Page 149 - Davis, in his history of China, states that every substance convertible into manure is diligently husbanded. The cakes that remain after the expression of their vegetable oils, horns and hoofs reduced to powder, together with soot and ashes, and the contents of common sewers, are much used. The plaster of old kitchens, which in China have no chimneys but an opening at the top, is much valued, so that they will sometimes put a new plaster on a kitchen for the sake of the old. All sorts of hair are...
Page 208 - It formed for many years the bulk of the East India Company's cargoes ; but the quality gradually fell off, in consequence of the partial abandonment of the old system of annual contracts, by which the Chinese merchants were assured of a remunerating price for the better sorts. The consumption of Bohea in this country has of late years increased, to the diminution of Congou, and the standard of the latter has been considerably lowered. A particular variety, called Campoi...