An authentic account of the Chinese commission, which was sent to report on the Great Exhibition : wherein the opinion of China is shown as not corresponding at all with our own . inks of the national absence of heart, When admiring the genius by Power , while he takes a slave as a subject for art, His country takes thousands as objects of doubt but the Emperors observed it before,But here I 11 take leave to repeat it once more :The American sculpture of course should be great ;*For at chiseling the Yankees were always first-rate. From the female barbarians, I hardly need
An authentic account of the Chinese commission, which was sent to report on the Great Exhibition : wherein the opinion of China is shown as not corresponding at all with our own . inks of the national absence of heart, When admiring the genius by Power , while he takes a slave as a subject for art, His country takes thousands as objects of doubt but the Emperors observed it before,But here I 11 take leave to repeat it once more :The American sculpture of course should be great ;*For at chiseling the Yankees were always first-rate. From the female barbarians, I hardly need mention,The mirrors attracted a deal of I grieved for; since girls may be hurt by the glass,As man, by the bottle, is oft made an ass. * A Yankee tradesman said to Power one day— Now, how does this here sculpting business pay ? Power informed the man that every yearSome fourteen thousand dollars he could clear. Well, said the tradesman, I ve a boy, you see,Who does not yet know what he wants to as he ?s old enough a trade to learn,And as for carpentering hes a turn,If what you say about the profits true,I guess I d better make him sculpt like AND I FOUND THEY ATE DOGS, WHEN I VENTURED TO TRYA THING WHICH THEY SOLD AS A MERE MUTTON PIE. THE CHINESE COMMISSION. 29 What strange contradictions were seen in each place;For instance, to go into one single case,In her surgical instruments France had rewards,While she also gained prizes for muskets and promoters of death the same medals they giveAs to those who enable sick mortals to live. If the affair, we sum up it must be allowed To be one of which England may justly be proud ; Its a barbarous land, but you find there much good, Though the uses of opium are not understood. Still een in that matter the next generation WTill doubtless improve, for a late calculation Proves that myriads of children drink laudanum each day, So the country is now in a promising way. And I found they ate dogs, when
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