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Description:Excerpt from Peking the Goal, -the Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes of the First War; With Incidents of the Imprisonment of the Foreign Community and of the First Campaign of Canton 1841 And the immediate steps by which the cause of the West had been brought to this desiderated point; and attained, as it were by one bound, to 'the height of this high argnment, ' had not escaped your notice. - You observed that at the most critical moment, - when, as Dr. Bridgman afterward wrote, - "had there been only a little more "excitement, Canton might have become another Black Hole or the scene of indiscriminate slaughter." - Sir Charles Elliot suddenly appeared upon the scene of our imprisonment and wrought an immediate change in the whole character of the attitude in which the community stood toward the Chinese. - Rarely have a community so narrowly escaped a great disaster; and, rescued as we all felt we were from a sad fate, by his gallantry and consummate tact, no one failed to admire, also, the brilliant address by which he irrevocably fixed the responsibility of the Imperial Government; and thus made the high-handed acts of the renowned "queller of the barbarian spirit," - High Commissioner Lin, - the initial point of the new relations between the Christian Nations and China. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Peking the Goal,-the Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes ... Community and of the First Campaign of. To get started finding Peking the Goal,-the Sole Hope of Peace: Comprising an Inquiry Into the Origin of the Pretension of Universal Supremacy by China and Into the Causes ... Community and of the First Campaign of, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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