 | 1857 - 640 lapas
...Canton in two ever memorable sentences : — ' An insolent barharian, wielding authority at Canton, had violated the British flag-, broken the engagements...offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassinations, and poisons. 'The British... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 lapas
...in the just point of view in .his own words : " An insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, had violated the British flag, broken the engagements...offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murders, assassinations, and poisons. The British... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 886 lapas
...he and his government wished to punish "an insolent barbarian," who, "wielding authority at Canton, had violated the British flag, broken the engagements...offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murders, assassinations, and poisons;" whilst... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1884 - 996 lapas
...policy, and to sanction his chastisement of the " insolent barbarian who, wielding authority at Canton, had violated the British flag, broken the engagements...destruction by murder, assassination, and poison," the English people rallied to the summons, and Bright and Cobden, together with Milner Gibson, WJ Fox,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - 1881 - 672 lapas
...Canton blazing, Pekin invaded." Lord Palmerston took at his words the bold spokesman of the Tories. IIe announced a dissolution, and his appeal to the electors...Aristotle's, and their moral code antedated that of Soerates. Lord Palmerston declared that the measures taken by the government had been censured by a... | |
 | George Rose Emerson - 1881 - 472 lapas
...declared that "an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." The last... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1881 - 708 lapas
...declared that "an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." That, of... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1883 - 786 lapas
...Yeh as "an insolent barbarian," who, "wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." Would the... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1883 - 464 lapas
...declared that an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison. That of... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 lapas
...Yeh as "an insolent barbarian," who, " wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, aud planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison." Would the... | |
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an insolent barbarian, wielding authority at Canton, violated the British flag, broke the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for the heads of British subjects in that part of China, and planned their destruction by murder, assassination, and poison. 
