 | 1839 - 702 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the hongist who conducted...little chance of their seeing as much as they did. Efforts have been made by more than one European nation to break up the monopoly of the Chinese, by... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...his skilful and minute analysis of black and green teas, about fifteen years since, detected the presence of a colouring substance in the samples of green... | |
 | 1845 - 612 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...the more genuine green teas brought to this country. One fact is well ascertained and undeniable, that the Chinese themselves do not consume those kinds... | |
 | sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan (8th bart.) - 1845 - 840 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...little chance of their seeing as much as they did." Now, if we were able to pay corresponding prices with the Americans, which a great reduction in the... | |
 | Robert Fortune - 1847 - 444 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...little chance of their seeing as much as they did." 1 The turmeric and gypsum are perfectly innocuous ; but the prussian blue, being a combination of prussic... | |
 | Robert Fortune - 1847 - 480 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...little chance of their seeing as much as they did." 1 The turmeric and gypsum are perfectly innocuous; but the prussian blue, being a combination of prussic... | |
 | 1848 - 392 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...little chance of their seeing as much as they did. CULTIVATION OF THE COMMON LOCUST TREE, i THE soil in which the locust ( Robinia pseudacacia), appears... | |
 | John Mitchell - 1848 - 500 pagini
...places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party ; indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted them, there would have been little chance of seeing as much as they did."* It is an interesting and important question to* determine, whether the... | |
 | 1848 - 788 pagini
...before, over the fire, until the tea had taken the fine bloom of Hyson, with very much the same scent. conducted them, there would have been little chance of their seeing as much as they did. " One fact is undeniable, the Chinese do not consume those kinds of green teas which are imported for... | |
 | John Epps - 1850 - 298 pagini
...other places where the same process was going on, the doors were closed on the parties. Indeed, had it not been for the influence of the Hongist who conducted...little chance of their seeing as much as they did. "One fact is undeniable, the Chinese do not consume those kinds of green teas which are imported for... | |
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The Chinese seemed quite conscious of the real character of the occupation in which they were engaged; for, on attempting to enter several other places where the same process was going on, the doors were speedily closed upon the party. Indeed, had it... 
