 | 1843 - 886 頁
...remarked, that as every difference was satisfactorily arranged, he was anxious to say a few words on a subject, the great cause that produced the disturbances...England chose to exercise so arbitrary a power over the tillers of the soil, it would not check the evil so far as they (the Chinese) were concerned, while... | |
 | Lucius N. Wheeler - 1881 - 288 頁
..." they then evinced much interest, and eagerly requested to know why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our...effectually stop a traffic so pernicious to the human race." The captain thus gives in substance Sir Henry's reply, which was really all that could be said in defense... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1897 - 644 頁
..." They then evinced much interest, and eagerly requested to know why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our...traffic so pernicious to the human race." "This," he replied, "in consistency with our constitutional law, could not be done; and," he added " that even... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1897 - 650 頁
..."They then evinced much interest, and eagerly requested to know why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our...thus effectually stop a traffic so pernicious to the hnman race." "This," he replied, " inconsistency with our constitutional law, could not be done; and,"... | |
 | Samuel Wells Williams - 1897 - 500 頁
...conversation. They then evinced much interest, and eagerly requested to know why w* would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our dominions, and thus effectually stop a traffic BO pernicious to the human race. This, he said, in consistency with our constitutional laws could not... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1897 - 646 頁
...requested to know why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy iu oar dominions, and thus effectually stop a traffic so pernicious to the human race." "This," hereplied, "in consistency with our constitutional law, could not be done : and," he added " that even... | |
 | Chester Holcombe - 1900 - 416 頁
...British official report of the interview, they inquired eagerly : " Why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our...effectually stop a traffic so pernicious to the human race." Sir Henry Pottinger's answer might have been anticipated. He replied, according to the same authority,... | |
 | John Watson Foster - 1903 - 548 頁
...why the British " would not act fairly towards them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in their dominions, and thus effectually stop a traffic so pernicious to the human race." The British answer was that this could not be done in consistency with their constitutional laws; that... | |
 | Frank Brinkley - 1904 - 368 頁
...— They then evinced much interest, and eagerly requested to know why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our...a traffic so pernicious to the human race. This he [Sir Henry Pottinger] said, in consistency with our constitutional laws, could not be done ; and he... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1906 - 678 頁
..."They then evinced much interest, and eagerly requested to know why we would not act fairly toward them by prohibiting the growth of the poppy in our...traffic so pernicious to the human race." "This," he replied, "in consistency with our constitutional law, could not be done; and," he added, "that even... | |
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This, he said, in consistency with our constitutional laws, could not be done; and he added, that even if England chose to exercise so arbitrary a power over her tillers of the soil, it would not check the evil so far as they (the Chinese) were concerned,... 
