 Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining China, but this dreadful poison. Oh, the grief and desolation it has wrought to our people ! A hundred years ago the curse came upon us more blasting and deadly in its effects than the Great Flood...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Page 740edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 998 pages
...there is a chapter headed " Cast Out the Poison," from which the following paragraph is an extract : " Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...grief and desolation it has wrought to our people IA hundred years ago the curse came upon us more blasting and deadly in its effects than the great... | |
 | 1899 - 896 pages
...balance of thirty million Taels represents what has been consumed in smoking the pernicious opium pipe ! Assuredly, it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...curse came upon us more blasting and deadly in its * The long list of books and commentaries suggested is not translated. — S. L\V. effects than the... | |
 | Zhidong Zhang - 1900 - 176 pages
...balance of thirty million Taels represents what has been consumed in smoking the pernicious opium pipe ! Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...or the scourge of the Fierce Beasts, for the waters assuaged after nine years, and the ravages of the man-eaters were confined to one place. Opium has... | |
 | Zhidong Zhang - 1900 - 170 pages
...balance of thirty million Taels represents what has been consumed in smoking the pernicious opium pipe! Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...or the scourge of the Fierce Beasts, for the waters assuaged after nine years, and the ravages of the man-eaters were confined to one place. Opium has... | |
 | George Claude Lorimer - 1900 - 674 pages
...whose ravages have recently called forth this expression of horror from the Viceroy Chang Chih Tung : Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...ago the curse came upon us more blasting and deadly than the great flood or the scourge of the fierce beasts, for the waters assuaged after nine years,... | |
 | Arthur Henderson Smith - 1901 - 462 pages
...there is a chapter headed " Cast Out the Poison," from which the following paragraph is an extract : " Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...or the scourge of the Fierce Beasts, for the waters assuaged after nine years, and the ravages of the man-eaters were confined to one place. Opium has... | |
 | Arthur H. Smith - 1901 - 466 pages
...there is a chapter headed " Cast Out the Poison," from which the following paragraph is an extract : " Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...blasting and deadly in its effects than the great Rood, or the scourge of the Fierce Beasts, for the waters assuaged after nine years, and the ravages... | |
 | Frank Brinkley - 1902 - 352 pages
...and published a volume1 which he called " China's Only Hope." In it he said this about opium : — " Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...the Scourge of the Fierce Beasts ; for the waters assuaged after nine years, and the ravages of the man-eaters were confined to one place. Opium has... | |
 | Frank Brinkley - 1902 - 346 pages
...and published a volume1 which he called " China's Only Hope." In it he said this about opium : — "Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...! A hundred years ago the curse came upon us more Masting and deadly in its effects than the Great Flood or the Scourge of the Fierce Beasts ; for the... | |
 | Frank Brinkley - 1902 - 386 pages
...and published a volume1 which he called " China's Only Hope." In it he said this about opium : — " Assuredly it is not foreign intercourse that is ruining...grief and desolation it has wrought to our people ! Aliundred years ago the curse came upon us more blasting and deadly in its effects than the Great... | |
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