 | Barry Edward O'Meara - 1822 - 554 páginas
...otherwise not to have sent him at all. I observed, that the English would consider it as debasing to the nation, if Lord Amherst had consented to prostrate himself in the manner required. That if such a point was conceded, the Chinese would probably not be contented, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1847 - 492 páginas
...they ought not to have sent him at all. I observed that the English would consider it as debasing to the nation, if Lord Amherst had consented to prostrate himself in the manner required. That if such a point were conceded, the Chinese would probably not be contented, and... | |
 | William Tegg - 1877 - 296 páginas
...ought not to have sent him at all.' I observed that the English would have considered it as debasing to the nation, if Lord Amherst had consented to prostrate himself in the manner required. That if such a point were conceded, the Chinese would require similar ceremonies to... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1853 - 606 páginas
...custom of the place he was sent to, or that they ought not to have sent him at all.' I replied, that 1 thought the English would have considered it as debasing...Japanese, and complied with so disgracefully by the Butch ; that, besides, Lord Amherst had offered to render the same obeisance to the Emperor as he would... | |
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... otherwise they ought not to have sent him at all. I observed that the English would consider it as debasing to the nation, if Lord Amherst had consented to prostrate himself in the manner required. That if such a point were conceded, the Chinese would... 