A History of Our Own Times from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume 3Chatto & Windus, 1880 - Great Britain |
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... taken from the Portuguese settle- ment at Macao at the mouth of the Canton river . It often occurs in Treaties with the Chinese authorities . ' Every British schooner , cutter , lorcha , etc. , ' are words that we constantly find in ...
... taken from the Portuguese settle- ment at Macao at the mouth of the Canton river . It often occurs in Treaties with the Chinese authorities . ' Every British schooner , cutter , lorcha , etc. , ' are words that we constantly find in ...
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... taken on him to act the part which aroused such a controversy . It would seem as if his eager self - conceit would not allow him to resist the temptation to display himself on the field of political action as a great English ...
... taken on him to act the part which aroused such a controversy . It would seem as if his eager self - conceit would not allow him to resist the temptation to display himself on the field of political action as a great English ...
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... taken that no British ship should be visited improperly by Chinese officers . But he could not offer an apology for the particular case of the Arrow , for he still maintained , as was indeed the fact , that the Arrow was a Chinese ...
... taken that no British ship should be visited improperly by Chinese officers . But he could not offer an apology for the particular case of the Arrow , for he still maintained , as was indeed the fact , that the Arrow was a Chinese ...
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... taken with a vague sym- pathy with the wife ; he set about to show that the evidence against her proved nothing . Another sym- pathised with husbands in general , and made it his business to emphasise every point that told of guilt in ...
... taken with a vague sym- pathy with the wife ; he set about to show that the evidence against her proved nothing . Another sym- pathised with husbands in general , and made it his business to emphasise every point that told of guilt in ...
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... taken from the convict depôt and known to be prostitutes ; and hanging round the door were the savages , men and women . All the evidence seems to agree that with hardly any exceptions the women convicts were literally prostitutes ...
... taken from the convict depôt and known to be prostitutes ; and hanging round the door were the savages , men and women . All the evidence seems to agree that with hardly any exceptions the women convicts were literally prostitutes ...
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