Peking the Goal, -The Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes of the First War; With Incidents of the Imprisonment of the Foreign Community and of the First
Peking the Goal, -The Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes of the First War; With Incidents of the Imprisonment of the Foreign Community and of the First...
Excerpt from Peking the Goal, -the Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes of the First War; With Incidents of the Imprisonment of the Foreign Community and of the First Campaign of Canton 1841 Quelled, as the 'barbarian Spirit' was assumed to be by its imprisonment under guard of the able-bodied of the peo ple, it had not lost its diplomatic dexterity and it turned Me fables so completely that a new code of relations was at once ...
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Excerpt from Peking the Goal, -the Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes of the First War; With Incidents of the Imprisonment of the Foreign Community and of the First Campaign of Canton 1841 Quelled, as the 'barbarian Spirit' was assumed to be by its imprisonment under guard of the able-bodied of the peo ple, it had not lost its diplomatic dexterity and it turned Me fables so completely that a new code of relations was at once revealed, without the aid of other spirits than those invoked by the redoubtable Queller himself. Now expend a joke upon the great yum-chae but be was in earnest Men, and his in ammatory a to the people were fraught with peril for us prisoners. He gravest of realities, short of a wholesale immolation or general slaughter, rendered longer temporising but 'a temptation and a snare for Imperial weakness and credu lity; and imposed upon England, - as con scious of her own strength as of the rectitude of her attitude toward China, - the duty, as well to China as to civilization, of proceeding to Peking to disabuse the Emperor, at once, of the untenable nature of the pretension of Supremacy and of the imputations of his Vice Roy's. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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