| Bookbinding - 1900 - 282 pages
...that even fancy will not suggest to-day, thus pre paring for the future upheavals and disasters never dreamt of. In fifty years' time there will be millions...Government, there is not the slightest doubt of that ! To some this prediction of an East in torrential retaliation of the West appeared merely the outcome... | |
| John Gordon Drummond Campbell - Thailand - 1902 - 418 pages
...history of the world ? Sir Robert Hart, whose knowledge of the Chinese is unique, gloomily predicts that in fifty years' time there will be millions of Boxers...war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government, which, if it continues to exist, will encourage, uphold, and develop this national Chinese movement.... | |
| Henry Hutchinson Montgomery - Christianity - 1907 - 454 pages
...the Yellow Peril was apparently the most important feature of the Yellow Question. He foresees that " in fifty years' time there will be millions of Boxers...Government : there is not the slightest doubt of that ! " He foresees, too, that such a development " bodes no good for the rest of the world, but China... | |
| Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale - Beijing (China) - 1910 - 496 pages
...to them. ' I mean,' replied Sir Joshua, in a low voice, ' that in time there will be millions of men in serried ranks and war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government — of the Manchus ; there cannot be the slightest doubt of that ! And if the Chinese Government continues... | |
| Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale - Beijing (China) - 1910 - 488 pages
...listening to them. "I mean," replied Sir Joshua in a low voice, "that in time there will be millions of men in serried ranks and war's panoply at the call of the Chinese government—of the Manchus—there cannot be the slightest doubt of that I And if the Chinese government... | |
| Literature - 1912 - 890 pages
...It to be about 320 millions. '"The Reshaping of the Far East", vol. II. Macmillan. 1»05. declared, "there will be millions of Boxers in serried ranks...war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government" ' This picture appealed forcibly to the Wagnerlan imagination of the Kaiser, who saw, in the coming... | |
| John Otway Percy Bland - China - 1912 - 614 pages
...drawn an even more sensational picture of the awakened giant. " In fifty years' time," he declared, " there will be millions of Boxers in serried ranks and war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government."2 This picture appealed forcibly to the Wagnerian imagination of the Kaiser, who saw, in... | |
| John Otway Percy Bland - China - 1912 - 628 pages
...drawn an even more sensational picture of the awakened giant. " In fifty years' time," he declared, " there will be millions of Boxers in serried ranks and war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government."2 This picture appealed forcibly to the Wagnerian imagination of the Kaiser, who saw, in... | |
| Edward Carpenter - China - 1917 - 230 pages
...has come to stay. Sir Robert Hart, who probably knew China as well as any living Englishman, said : "In fifty years' time there will be millions of Boxers...Government : there is not the slightest doubt of that." a Nor can We for a moment 'doubt that the Chinese, though averse to change, have just as great technical... | |
| Min-chʻien Tuk Zung Tyau - China - 1922 - 522 pages
...Sir Robert Hart, already referred to, prophesied that "in fifty years' time there will be millions in serried ranks and war's panoply at the call of the Chinese Government. . . . And if the Chinese Government continues to exist, it will encourage — and it will be quite... | |
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