 | sir George Leonard Staunton (1st bart.) - 1797 - 584 էջ
...following anfwer ; that " he was little felicitous for the fate of unworthy fubjects, who, in the purfuit of lucre, had quitted their country, and abandoned the tombs of their anceftors." They appear, however, to have the higheft veneration for fuch of their anceftors as have... | |
 | Sir George Staunton - 1797 - 558 էջ
...following anfwer ; that " be was little felicitous for the fate of unworthy fubje&s, who, in the purfuit of lucre, had quitted their country, and abandoned the tombs of their anceftors." They appear, however, to have the higheft veneration for fuch of their anceftors as have... | |
 | 1799 - 618 էջ
...were sent to China to endeavour to ' apologise .-' but the Emperor calmly told them that he was little solicitous for the fate of unworthy subjects, who,...country, " and abandoned the tombs of their ancestors !" Before we leave Java, we shall give to our readers the description of the combats between wild beasts... | |
 | 1799 - 614 էջ
...were sent to China to endeavour to ' apologise :' but the Emperor calmly told them that he was little solicitous for the fate of unworthy subjects, who,...country, " and abandoned the tombs of their ancestors !" Before we leave Java, we shall give to our readers the description of the combats between wild beasts... | |
 | John Joseph Stockdale - 1812 - 420 էջ
...emperor calmly answered, that " he was little solicitous for the fate of unworthy subjects, who, in the pursuit of lucre, had quitted their country and abandoned the tombs of their ancestors." * 3 five rixdollars. A rixdollar, at Batavia, Is worlk forty-eight stivers, or about 4*. t,d. sterling.... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1812 - 1030 էջ
...calmly anfwered> that " he was little foliotons for the fate of unworthy fubjecb, who, in the puriuit of lucre, had quitted their country, and abandoned the tombs, of their anceftors." Tu. * A rixdollar at Batavia is worth forty-eight ftivers, or about four (billings and.fourpence... | |
 | William Henry G. Kingston - 1859 - 316 էջ
...reply, — to the effect that he was little solicitous for the fate of unworthy subjects, who, in the pursuit of lucre, had quitted their country, and abandoned the tombs of their ancestors ! Notwithstanding the unhealthiness of the climate, and the impediments thrown in the way of commerce... | |
 | William Henry G. Kingston - 1861 - 626 էջ
...reply, — to the effect that he was little solicitous for the fate of unworthy subjects, who, in the pursuit of lucre, had quitted their country, and abandoned the tombs of their ancestors ! Notwithstanding the unhealthiness of the climate, and the impediments thrown in the way of commerce... | |
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... he was little solicitous for the fate of unworthy subjects, who, in the pursuit of lucre, had quitted their country, and abandoned the tombs of their ancestors... 