 | 1857 - 602 psl.
...upon a remarkable verification of the old saying adopted by Southey, that "Curses come home to roost." Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since our national expansion brought us into a painful and uneasy necessity of connectmg ourselves with the conceited and (unhappily for us) the ignorant... | |
 | 1857 - 594 psl.
...painful and uneasy necessity of connecting ourselves with the conceited and (unhappily for us) the ignorant inhabitants of China. From the very first,...reconciled ourselves to such treatment, formed, indeed, one of two apologies that might have been pleaded on behalf of the Chinese. But why, then, did we reconcile... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 psl.
...a remarkable verification of the old saying adopted by Southey, that " Curses come home to roost." Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since our national expansion brought us into a painful and uneasy necessity of connectmg ourselves with the conceited and (unhappily for us) the ignorant... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, George Croly - 1859 - 350 psl.
...a remarkable verification of the old saying adopted by Southey, that " Curses come home to roost." Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since...conceited and most ignorant inhabitants of China. Prom the very first our connection had its foundations laid in malignity ; so far as the Chinese were... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 618 psl.
...a remarkable verification of the old saying adopted by Southey, that " Curses come home to roost. " Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since...conceited and most ignorant inhabitants of China. Prom the very first our connection had its foundations laid in malignity ; so far as the Chinese were... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 624 psl.
...a remarkable verification of the old saying adopted by Southey, that " Curses come home to roost." Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since...foundations laid in malignity ; so far as the Chinese were concenfed, in affected disdain, and in continual outbreaks of brutal inhospitality. That we should... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 psl.
...a remarkable verification of the old saying, adopted by Southey, that " curses come home to roost." Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since...ignorant inhabitants of China. From the very first our connexion had its foundations laid in malignity so far as the Chinese were concerned, in affected disdain,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 470 psl.
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 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 460 psl.
...a remarkable verification of the old saying, adopted by Southey, that " curses come home to roost." Two centuries have elapsed, and something more, since...ignorant inhabitants of China. From the very first our connexion had its foundations laid in malignity so far as the Chinese were concerned, in affected disdain,... | |
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... of the case, and by that larger experience of Chinese character which has been acquired since our last treaty with their treacherous executive. Meantime, for one moment let us fix our attention upon a remarkable verification of the old saying adopted... 
