 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 328 Seiten
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." After a second audience, to which they were invited chiefly for the purpose of allowing the ladies... | |
 | 1841 - 314 Seiten
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backward like a crab, without uttering a single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience...we have of this mighty monarch. Nor are there any other ceremonies observed in the audience he gives to the greatest and most powerful princes of the... | |
 | 1842 - 326 Seiten
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." After a second audience, to which they were invited, chiefly for the purpose of allowing the ladies... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 418 Seiten
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government ; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 474 Seiten
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, half-civilized government ; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Talbot Watts - 1852 - 406 Seiten
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government; it is not by crawling... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1852 - 416 Seiten
...his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of thia mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government... | |
 | George baron Anson - 1853 - 660 Seiten
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience...princes of the empire. For having been called into tho hall, their names are cried out aloud, then they move on their hands and feet humbly and silently... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 Seiten
...bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backward like a crab, without uttering one single word. So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." There is every reason to believe, from the tenacity with which customs, humiliating to foreigners,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1856 - 396 Seiten
...quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards, like a crab, without uttering one single word.So mean and short a thing is the audience we have of this mighty monarch." This, surely, is not the way to deal with a haughty, halfcivilized government ; it is not by crawling... | |
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... him between the presents, ranged in due order on one side, and the place where the emperor sat on the other, and then kneeling, he bowed his forehead quite down to the ground, and so crawled backwards like a crab, without uttering one single word.... 
