| John Otway Percy Bland, Sir Edmund Backhouse - 1910 - 636 pages
...bright flower of spring does not bloom twice ! My wife and the other women, stupidly obstinate like all females, intend to take opium. I cannot prevent...so, but, for myself, I have no intention of doing anyi Prince Ch'un subsequently married Jung Lu's daughter, by special command of the Empress Dowager.... | |
| 1911 - 624 pages
...bright flower of spring does not bloom twice ! My wife and the other women, stupidly obstinate like all females, intend to take opium. I cannot prevent...so, but, for myself, I have no intention of doing any1 Prince Ch'un subsequently married Jung Lu's daughter, by special command of the Empress Dowager.... | |
| Hosea Ballou Morse - 1918 - 590 pages
...has committed suicido with all her family. . . . My wife and the other women, stupidly obstinate like all females, intend to take opium. I cannot prevent them from doing so, but I have no intention of doing anything sO foolish." — Chingshan, Diary, Aug. 15th, p. 302. remained... | |
| Harley Farnsworth MacNair - 1927 - 976 pages
...bright flower of Spring does not bloom twice! My wife and the other women, stupidly obstinate like all females, intend to take opium. I cannot prevent...they will never find my hidden treasure, and I shall remain here, old and feeble as I am. My son, En Ch'un, has disappeared since yesterday, and nearly... | |
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