China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade: with a Glance at Our Religious, Moral, Political and Commercial Intercourse with the Country, 第 1 卷W.S. Orr & Company, 1849 |
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第 280 頁 - His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint...
第 260 頁 - The pain they suffer when deprived of the drug, after long habit, no language can explain ; and it is only when to a certain degree under its influence that their faculties are alive. In the...
第 258 頁 - The drug is prepared with some kind of conserve, and a very small portion is sufficient to charge it, one or two whiffs being the utmost that can be inhaled from a single pipe, and the smoke is taken into the lungs as from the hookah in India. On a beginner, one or two pipes will have an effect, but an old stager will continue smoking for hours.
第 258 頁 - ... of the day are over, crowds of Chinese, who seek these places to satisfy their depraved appetites. " The rooms where they sit and smoke are surrounded by wooden couches, with places for the head to rest upon, and generally a side-room is devoted to gambling. The pipe is a reed of about an inch in diameter, and the aperture in the bowl for the admission of the...
第 260 頁 - ... all assented to the evils and sufferings of their course, and professed a desire to be freed from its power. They all complained of loss of appetite ; of the agonizing cravings of the early morning ; of prostration of strength, and of increasing feebleness ; but said that they could not gain firmness of resolution to overcome the habit : they all stated its intoxicating effects to be worse than those of drunkenness, and described the extreme dizziness and vomiting which ensued, so as to incapacitate...
第 78 頁 - In the infancy of navigation, and before the discovery of the passage by the Cape of Good Hope, the trade between Europe and the East was carried on through the Mediterranean ; and the Italian republics became the entrepots.
第 260 頁 - A few days of this fearful luxury, when taken to excess, will give a pallid and haggard look to the face ; and a few months, or even weeks, will change the strong and healthy man into little better than an idiot skeleton. The...
第 140 頁 - NO. 2. 12 prevalence of all the vices charged by the apostle Paul upon the ancient heathen world; the alarming extent of the use of opium, (furnished, too...
第 134 頁 - ... attack was at once decided upon, a summons having been previously sent in, requiring the surrender of the town and island of Amoy to her Majesty's forces. 2. The enemy's defences were evidently of great strength, and the country by nature difficult of access. Every island, every projecting headland, from whence guns could bear upon the harbour, was occupied and strongly armed.