 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1899 - 762 pages
...the flowing poison. Gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." Englishmen have often commented on this infamy in terms by no means complimentary to England. Said... | |
 | Samuel Smith - 1902 - 710 pages
...flowing poison. : ; Gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes, but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people. " Then a letter was written by the Chinese Government to Sir H. Pottinger, in which they said : —... | |
 | Mrs. Howard Taylor - 1904 - 270 pages
...poison. Gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for prof1t and sensuality, defeat my wishes. But nothing shall induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." For fifteen uneasy years this state of things continued,1 only to culminate in a second, still more... | |
 | Arthur Mordaunt Murray - 1907 - 310 pages
...raise revenue by means of a Customs duty, the Emperor Tao Kwang refused the proposal in these words: ' Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.' 3 Debate in the House of Commons, May 30, 1906. with ourselves we could regard with less pride than... | |
 | Arthur Mordaunt Murray - 1907 - 330 pages
...raise revenue by means of a Customs duty, the Emperor Tao Kwang refused the proposal in these words : ' Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.1 3 Debate in the House of Commons, May 30, 1906. with ourselves we could regard with less pride... | |
 | Francis Lushington Norris - 1908 - 254 pages
...flowing poison : gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." The story of the war must be read elsewhere * : here it is sufficient to say that the British arms... | |
 | 1883 - 828 pages
...flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." His successor was obliged to do that which he so sturdily had refused, but the vermilion pencil never... | |
 | 1908 - 748 pages
...before. The Emperor Taou-Kwang steadfastly refused to legalize it. "Nothing will induce me," he said, "to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." And when Captain Hope, of HMS Thalia, stopped two or three opium ships above Shanghai, he was recalled... | |
 | 1923 - 436 pages
...Wisely the latter replied, in words that ought to have made the Englishman's cheeks burn with shame, "Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." In 1839, Emperor Tao Kwang, finding with astonishment that the contraband trade had reached 35,000... | |
 | Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb - 1923 - 218 pages
...flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people " (Parliamentary Report, China, 1847, p. 292). The capitalist traders, shipowners and bankers interested... | |
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IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE. 
