 | Julius Jeffreys - 1858 - 434 páginas
...reduced again to a medicinal amount. To our persuasive arguments the Emperor Tuou Kwang replied : " It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the...a revenue from the vice and misery of my people!" Here was a heathen ruler reading a lesson in morality to a Christian government ! — a severe and... | |
 | Julius Jeffreys - 1858 - 432 páginas
...reduced again to a medicinal amount. To our persuasive arguments the Emperor Tuou Kwang replied : " It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the...derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people ! " Here was a heathen ruler reading a lesson in morality to a Christian government ! — a severe... | |
 | William Reid - 1858 - 184 páginas
...official reply to our government is worthy of being remembered. " It is true I cannot prevent," said he, " the introduction of the flowing poison : gain-seeking...a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." But to conclude — AVhocver may oppose the movement in favour of the legislative suppression of this... | |
 | 1858 - 784 páginas
...trade should be legalized, by which the government revenue would be improved. The emperor replied, " Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my peopie." The new emperor, it appears, is less scrupulous — he has legalized the trade at 40 taels... | |
 | 1858 - 784 páginas
...trade should be legalized, by which the government revenue would be improved. The emperor replied, "Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my p«»opie." The new emperor, it appears, is less scrupulous — be bas legalized the trade at 40 taels... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1859 - 552 páginas
...1844, when urged to legalise the trade, and assured that he might gain a revenue upon it, he said, " It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the...a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." || And in 1853, the young Emperor, though then greatly in want of money, and told that he might raise... | |
 | 1859 - 802 páginas
...and plunder. ' It is true,' said that heathen potentate, under the helplessness of defeat; ' it \» true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison; gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for their own profit and sensuality, defeat jny wishes; bat nothing will indue* me to derive a revenue... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - 1860 - 934 páginas
...This he refused to do, and recorded his decision in these memorable words: " It is true, I can not prevent the introduction of the flowing poison. Gain-seeking...a revenue from the vice and misery of my people."* Let us revert a moment to the case of robbery, before cited, in farther illustration of this subject.... | |
 | John Logan Aikman - 1860 - 418 páginas
...words, which, were they adopted by all national rulers, would bring blessings to their subjects : — " It is true, I cannot prevent the introduction of the...sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but •nothing will induce we to derive a receniie from the vice and misery of my people." This noble protest of a heathen, in... | |
 | Horace Lorenzo Hastings - 1863 - 432 páginas
...and thence increase his revenue, he replied : — " IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OP THE FLOWING POISON, — GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN...WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES J * Ritchie's Oriental Nations, vol. ii. pp. 354-5. BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A RETENUE... | |
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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. 
