 | American literature - 1883 - 876 pages
...hazardous a business, that the attempt is not made, and that recourse is had to different expedients. One of the most striking features in the character of...history of our • relations with them is full of significant proof to the same effect. For many years after we and other Europeans had succeeded in... | |
 | American periodicals - 1883 - 892 pages
...hazardous a business, that the attempt is not made, and that recourse is had to different expedients. One of the most striking features in the character of...the history of our relations with them is full of significant proof to the same effect. For many years after we and other Europeans had succeeded in... | |
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... that the decree would be passed without compunction, and that the thing would be done as effectually as it might. It is simply because China has not the power, and does not see her way out of so hazardous a business, that the attempt is not made,... 