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8, 9), " It is humiliating to reflect even to varnish the monstrous arrogances of the Chinese Em- peror. He asserted (what he of all men should best have known to be untrue) that at least the Emperor had never pretended to any rights over the island of Great Britain; whereas one of the official persons authorised by the court of Peking to accompany Lord Amherst's return by land to Canton, had gravely reminded our people that the Emperor was as truly lord of the British Isles as of Peking; and i...n this expostulation did not evidently suppose himself advancing any new truth, but simply recalling to our minds an old one, which we were forgetting* Sir George farther insists, that, even at the worst, the Emperor went no further than our own kings, who, until the last alteration of the royal title, in the days of George III., always called themsdrva Kings of France. But how different the case ! We meant only Kings of France de jure^ not de facto. And our original title rested upon a twofold real ground — ^namely, upon overwhelming victories, which enabled us to crown an infant prince as King of France; and secondly, upon plausible genealogical grounds.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
8, 9), " It is humiliating to reflect even to varnish the monstrous arrogances of the Chinese Em- peror. He asserted (what he of all men should best have known to be untrue) that at least the Emperor had never pretended to any rights over the island of Great Britain; whereas one of the official persons authorised by the court of Peking to accompany Lord Amherst's return by land to Canton, had gravely reminded our people that the Emperor was as truly lord of the British Isles as of Peking; and i...n this expostulation did not evidently suppose himself advancing any new truth, but simply recalling to our minds an old one, which we were forgetting* Sir George farther insists, that, even at the worst, the Emperor went no further than our own kings, who, until the last alteration of the royal title, in the days of George III., always called themsdrva Kings of France. But how different the case ! We meant only Kings of France de jure^ not de facto. And our original title rested upon a twofold real ground — ^namely, upon overwhelming victories, which enabled us to crown an infant prince as King of France; and secondly, upon plausible genealogical grounds.
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