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It
may
an immense
either prove
· success, placing England
in a
position of commanding influence.
in China, or
else
a
combination
of jealous foreign Diplomatists with certain Chinese parties may render it ultimately a comparative failure. Moreover, (as I have -
remarked in former despatches),
and
measured
of
the policy Chinese, as of Turkish statesmen,
are
often liable to be upset by
Palace intrigues of
women and
eunuchs. As I mentioned on a
previous
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previous occasion, I was much struck during my
visit to Peking
by the general resemblance of things there to what they probably
کو
were at Constantinople in the
latter days of
the
Byzantine
Empire; of which indeed the
modern Turks are, in
now,
many
senses, the heirs; for there must through frequent intermarriages during the last four centuries, & as much of Byzantine as
nearly
of Ottoman blood in the existing
raec.
be
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