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Account Of Kien-Long, Emperor Of China.
ACCOUNT OF KIEN-LONG , EMPEROR OF CHINA .
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY FOR FEBRUARY , 1798 .
[ WITH AN ELEGANT PORTRAIT . ]
HPHIS great prince , undoubtedl y the most puissant monarch in the world , is of the Tartar race , who conquered China in the year i & 4 v He is the son of the Emperor Yong-chirig , who is said to have succeeded his father Kang-hi the Great , by suddenly entering the palace m the last moments of his predecessor , and substituting his own name in a testament intended for the exaltation of another
Yang-clung died in 173 6 , and was succeeded by Kien-Lone ; , who was born in 17 , 0 . The reign of this Emperor has been distinguished _ by great glory . He has invariabl y conducted himself with a strict attention to the duties of his hi gh station , and with a steady regard to the interests of his people .
_ When Jiarl Macartney was at his court , though he was then eighty-three years ' of age , he was set hale and vi gorous , that he scarcely appeared to have existed as many years ( fifty-seven ) as , in fief , he had governed the . empire ; and when he descended from his throne he marched firm and erect , and without the least symptom of infirmity , to the open chair that was waiting for him . A very high character is given of his and b
penetration genius y those who have had the best opportunities of being informed respecting him , and he is said to have put such order in the investigation of public affairs , and to have made such an excellent distribution of his time , as to have found leisure to cultivate some of the polite arts , without neelectine the concerns of Ins crownhe has written which indi
; even poems , - cate taste and fancy , with an attentive view of nature . They are less remarkable for invention than for philosophical and moral truths - ' and resemble more the epics of Voltaire than those of Milton He presented a few stanzas to the British Embassador for his Majesty _ rhe intelligent narrator of that interesting embassy has made the following observationsmateriall connected with our subict
, y present » - lh . ? -ampercr divides his time according to the seasons ; the winter in his Chinese , the summer in his Tartar territories . Monkden is the capital of the antient possessions of his famil y , which he has greatly embellished and enlarged , and where he is supposed to have accti mii-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Account Of Kien-Long, Emperor Of China.
ACCOUNT OF KIEN-LONG , EMPEROR OF CHINA .
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY FOR FEBRUARY , 1798 .
[ WITH AN ELEGANT PORTRAIT . ]
HPHIS great prince , undoubtedl y the most puissant monarch in the world , is of the Tartar race , who conquered China in the year i & 4 v He is the son of the Emperor Yong-chirig , who is said to have succeeded his father Kang-hi the Great , by suddenly entering the palace m the last moments of his predecessor , and substituting his own name in a testament intended for the exaltation of another
Yang-clung died in 173 6 , and was succeeded by Kien-Lone ; , who was born in 17 , 0 . The reign of this Emperor has been distinguished _ by great glory . He has invariabl y conducted himself with a strict attention to the duties of his hi gh station , and with a steady regard to the interests of his people .
_ When Jiarl Macartney was at his court , though he was then eighty-three years ' of age , he was set hale and vi gorous , that he scarcely appeared to have existed as many years ( fifty-seven ) as , in fief , he had governed the . empire ; and when he descended from his throne he marched firm and erect , and without the least symptom of infirmity , to the open chair that was waiting for him . A very high character is given of his and b
penetration genius y those who have had the best opportunities of being informed respecting him , and he is said to have put such order in the investigation of public affairs , and to have made such an excellent distribution of his time , as to have found leisure to cultivate some of the polite arts , without neelectine the concerns of Ins crownhe has written which indi
; even poems , - cate taste and fancy , with an attentive view of nature . They are less remarkable for invention than for philosophical and moral truths - ' and resemble more the epics of Voltaire than those of Milton He presented a few stanzas to the British Embassador for his Majesty _ rhe intelligent narrator of that interesting embassy has made the following observationsmateriall connected with our subict
, y present » - lh . ? -ampercr divides his time according to the seasons ; the winter in his Chinese , the summer in his Tartar territories . Monkden is the capital of the antient possessions of his famil y , which he has greatly embellished and enlarged , and where he is supposed to have accti mii-