 | John Otway Percy Bland, Sir Edmund Backhouse - 1910 - 636 pages
...autumns. I viyself know well her refined and gentle tastes, her love of painting, poetry and tlie timatre. When in a good mood she is the most amiable and tractable of women, but at times her rage is awful to untness." Here we have the woman drawn from life, without arriere pensce, by a just but sympathetic... | |
 | 1911 - 624 pages
...knew, and in accordance with the traditions of her race and caste. Says Ching Shan in the Diary: " The nature of the Empress is peaceloving : she has...women, but at times her rage is awful to witness" Here we have the woman drawn from life, without arriere pensee, by a just but sympathetic observer,... | |
 | Lucinda Pearl Boggs - 1913 - 142 pages
...autumns. I myself know well her refined and gentle tastes, her love of painting, poetry, and the theater. When in a good mood she is the most amiable and tractable...women, but at times her rage is awful to witness.' Here we have the woman drawn from life, without 90 arriere pensee, by a just and sympathetic observer,... | |
 | 1921 - 392 pages
...Shan in the Diary: The nature of the Empress is peace-loving: she has seen many springs and autumns. / myself know well her refined and gentle tastes, her...women, but at times her rage is awful to witness. Here we have the woman drawn from life, without arriere pensee, by a just but sympathetic observer,... | |
 | Harley Farnsworth MacNair - 1927 - 976 pages
...she knew, and in accordance with the traditions of her race and caste. Says Ching Shan in the Diary: "The nature of the Empress is peace-loving: she has...women, but at times her rage is awful to witness." Here we have the woman drawn from life, without arriere penste, by a just but sympathetic observer,... | |
 | Edmund Trelawney Backhouse (Sir).) - 1910 - 614 pages
...And, besides, the nature of the 1 The Supreme Deity of the Taoists and tutelary spirit of the Boxers. Empress is peace-loving; she has seen many springs...she learned that the chief eunuch, " Hsiao An'rh," J had been decapitated in Shantung by the orders of the Co-Regent, the late " Empress Dowager of the... | |
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Oriental, living out her life by such lights as she knew, and in accordance with the traditions of her race and caste. Says Ching Shan in the Diary: " The nature of the Empress is peaceloving : she has seen many springs and autumns. I myself know well... 