Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader; A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth Are Made the ... for the Use of Schools and Academies - Tapa blanda
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... WHERE WAS THE EMPEROR TO SIT?--Die Quincey. 1. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to China, was a state-coach. It had been specially selected, as a personal gift by George III.; but the exact mode of using it was a mystery to Pekin. 2. The ambassador, indeed, (Lord Macartney,) had made some dim and imperfect explanations upon the point; but as his excellency communicated these in a diplomatic whisper, at the very moment of his departure, the mind of his celestial majesty was very feebly illuminated; and it became necessary to call a cabinet council on the grand State question--" Where was the Emperor to sit?" 3. The hammer-cloth happened to be unusually gorgeous; and partly on that consideration, but partly also because the box offered the most elevated seat, and undeniably went foremost, it was resolved by acclamation that the box was the imperial place, and, for the scoundrel who drove, he might sit where he could find a perch. 4. The horses, therefore, being harnessed, under a flourish of music and a salute of guns, solemnly his imperial majesty ascended his new English throne, having the first lord of the treasury on his right hand, and the chief jester on his left. Pekin gloried in the spectacle; and in the whole flowery people, constructively present by representation, there was but one discontented person, which was the coachman. 5. This mutinous individual, looking as black-hearted as he really was. audaciously shouted: "Where am I to sit?" But the privy council, incensed by his disloyalty, unanimously opened the door, and kicked him into the inside. He had all the inside places to himself; but such is the rapacity of ambition, that he was still dissatisfied. 6. "I say," he cried out in an extempore petition, address ed to the e...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... WHERE WAS THE EMPEROR TO SIT?--Die Quincey. 1. Amongst the presents carried out by our first embassy to China, was a state-coach. It had been specially selected, as a personal gift by George III.; but the exact mode of using it was a mystery to Pekin. 2. The ambassador, indeed, (Lord Macartney,) had made some dim and imperfect explanations upon the point; but as his excellency communicated these in a diplomatic whisper, at the very moment of his departure, the mind of his celestial majesty was very feebly illuminated; and it became necessary to call a cabinet council on the grand State question--" Where was the Emperor to sit?" 3. The hammer-cloth happened to be unusually gorgeous; and partly on that consideration, but partly also because the box offered the most elevated seat, and undeniably went foremost, it was resolved by acclamation that the box was the imperial place, and, for the scoundrel who drove, he might sit where he could find a perch. 4. The horses, therefore, being harnessed, under a flourish of music and a salute of guns, solemnly his imperial majesty ascended his new English throne, having the first lord of the treasury on his right hand, and the chief jester on his left. Pekin gloried in the spectacle; and in the whole flowery people, constructively present by representation, there was but one discontented person, which was the coachman. 5. This mutinous individual, looking as black-hearted as he really was. audaciously shouted: "Where am I to sit?" But the privy council, incensed by his disloyalty, unanimously opened the door, and kicked him into the inside. He had all the inside places to himself; but such is the rapacity of ambition, that he was still dissatisfied. 6. "I say," he cried out in an extempore petition, address ed to the e...
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