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... the forest depth or the gray desert wilderness , and only in cities and in crowds is the loneliness of life to be possible to him . CHAPTER III CHINA THE country which was now to become 40 LIFE OF CHARLES GEORGE GORDON CHAP . II.
... the forest depth or the gray desert wilderness , and only in cities and in crowds is the loneliness of life to be possible to him . CHAPTER III CHINA THE country which was now to become 40 LIFE OF CHARLES GEORGE GORDON CHAP . II.
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... China might well have seemed a land as sealed against the efforts of outside individual energy as its commerce had long been closed to the mercantile activity of the world . Nor were there any great moral truths previously unknown , or ...
... China might well have seemed a land as sealed against the efforts of outside individual energy as its commerce had long been closed to the mercantile activity of the world . Nor were there any great moral truths previously unknown , or ...
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... China . In the long series of English wars with China which began in 1839-40 , opium was from first to last the cause of quarrel . However skilfully minor incidents may have been seized upon to hide the true reason of conflict ...
... China . In the long series of English wars with China which began in 1839-40 , opium was from first to last the cause of quarrel . However skilfully minor incidents may have been seized upon to hide the true reason of conflict ...
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... China was to be enforced at the cannon's mouth . It was little wonder that , in the face of such experience in diplomatic intercourse with a foreign State , a Chinese Minister should say , " Reason has no place in the judgments of those ...
... China was to be enforced at the cannon's mouth . It was little wonder that , in the face of such experience in diplomatic intercourse with a foreign State , a Chinese Minister should say , " Reason has no place in the judgments of those ...
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... China with clean hands . The war did not last long : the Chinese had placed all their hopes of defence in the forts at Taku , guarding the Tientsin River , the ap- proach to the capital . These forts were captured without difficulty in ...
... China with clean hands . The war did not last long : the Chinese had placed all their hopes of defence in the forts at Taku , guarding the Tientsin River , the ap- proach to the capital . These forts were captured without difficulty in ...
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