 | John Otway Percy Bland - 1910 - 636 pages
...and market places of the capital. Despite her swiftly changing and uncontrolled moods, her childish lack of moral sense, her unscrupulous love of power,...vitality, of strong will and unbounded ambition, a woman und an Oriental, living out her life by such lights as she knew, and in accordance with the traditions... | |
 | Lucinda Pearl Boggs - 1913 - 142 pages
...done in the following paragraph : "Despite her swiftly changing and uncontrolled moods, her childish lack of moral sense, her unscrupulous love of power, her fierce passions and revenges, Tsu Hsi was no more the savage monster described by 'Wen Ching,' than she was the benevolent, fashion-plate... | |
 | Sir Edmund Backhouse, John Otway Percy Bland - 1914 - 606 pages
...moral sense, her unscrupulous love of power, her fierce passions and revenges, was no more the fierce monster described by ' Wen Ching ' than she was the...fashion-plate Lady Bountiful of the American Magazines." 1 In discussing the early life of Tzu Hsi, and the crimes with which her contemporaries and posterity... | |
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... formed by one who had enjoyed for years continual opportunities of studying her at close quarters — an estimate which was, and is, confirmed by the popular verdict, the common report of the tea-houses and market places of the capital. Despite her... 