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Updated: May 24, 2025
The consumption of opium, the one dissipation of the Chinese till now unadded to the three or four of the Caucasian, is said to be extending. If so, a Counter-blast to it from king or commonwealth will be as ineffectual as against its allied narcotic. Prohibitory laws will be even more unavailing than in the case of ardent spirits.
Count and reckon as they would, the two Generals, equal in battle, face to face for the first time could not give the total of the day. It was still an unadded sum, and the guns, despite the night, were steadily contributing new figures. This was the flaw in their arithmetic; nothing was complete, and they saw that they would have to begin again to-morrow.
They could provide forlorn pullets, certainly from the same farmyard with the lean kine of Egypt, and to these they could add, what was much better left unadded, a villainous species of unleavened bread, a sort of hoecake, not at all improved precisely like the run of travelers by leaving home and wandering in the Orient. And this was about all they could provide.
"I think," said Min, "that that unadded verse of his which is always left out of the published poem, is nicer than any of the regular ones; for it touches on two of my favourites, the violet and the dear little robin redbreast!" "You mean, I suppose," said I, "the one commencing "`There, scatter'd oft, the earliest of the year " "Yes," said Min, continuing it in her low, sweet voice
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