 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 ページ
...and at the moment of midnight commences an interminable fi'u dt juii: of crackers strung together. Indeed, the consumption of this noisy species of firework...that the air becomes absolutely charged with nitre; and a Governor of Canton once in vain endeavoured to suppress it, on the ground of the undue wastefulness... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 ページ
...midnight commences an interminablefeu du joie of crackers strung together. Indeed, the consumption of Ihis noisy species of firework is so enormous that the air becomes absolutely charged with nitre; and a governor of Canton once in vain endeavoured to suppress it, on the ground of the undue wastefulness... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1840 - 408 ページ
...up, and at the moment of midnight commences an interminable feu de joie of crackers strung together. Indeed, the consumption of this noisy species of firework...that the air becomes absolutely charged with nitre ; and a governor of Canton once in vain endeavoured to suppress it, on the ground of the undue wastefulness... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 ページ
...commences an interminable feu de joie of cracker« strung together. Indeed, the consumption of this nuisy species of firework is so enormous that the air becomes absolutely charged with nitre ; and a governor of Canton once in vain endeavoured to suppress it, on the ground of the undue wastefulness... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1857 - 504 ページ
...j'oie of crackers strung together. Indeed, the consumption of Q 3 346 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. CHAP. X. this noisy species of firework is so enormous that the air becomes absolutely charged with nitre ; and a governor of Canton once in vain endeavoured to suppress it, on the ground of the undue wastefulness... | |
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indeed the consumption of this noisy species of firework is so enormous that the air becomes absolutely charged with nitre' 