The Tientsin Massacre; the Causes of the Late Disturbances in China, and how to Secure Permanent PeaceW. Blackwood & Sons, 1870 - 100 páginas |
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Página 44 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 70 - I have only to say that, wherever British subjects are placed in danger, in a situation which is accessible to a British ship of war, thither a British ship of war ought to be and will be ordered...
Página 98 - 43 though the Chinese are themselves incapable of originating any such improvement, they are very ready to avail themselves of it when provided for them. But the spirit of enterprise is all on the side of the foreigners, and the onus of every forward movement in commerce must necessarily rest on them...
Página 97 - ... Shanghai Chamber of Commerce* on the trade of the Upper Yangtsze — is the inertia of a people of stagnant ideas, who are not enterprising, and whose means of intercommunication are very limited. " They will not advance towards foreigners to seek their trade until foreigners have pressed it on them. Foreigners must provide the means of bringing different parts of the Empire into close communication ; they must also, to a certain extent, create the wants which they wish to supply, by offering...
Página 98 - ... different parts of the empire into close communication, and they must also, to a certain extent, create the wants which they wish to supply by offering their goods and ' introducing' them to their customers. Commerce everywhere requires to be energetically ' pushed' to be successful; and this is peculiarly true of the trade in foreign manufactures in China. When new ports are opened new depots are established, whence new markets can be easily reached, and new circles of customers made acquainted...