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Page 389 - voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.
Page 7 - June 1819 Raffles wrote to the Duchess of Somerset :—" My new colony thrives most rapidly. We have not been established four months, and it has received an accession of population exceeding 5,000— principally Chinese, and their number is daily increasing.
Page 52 - with us, but sat in a chair slightly withdrawn from the table. At midnight, by the light of a full moon, we would visit this beautiful flower, which faced the moon and moved with it until below the horizon. Amongst other pets he had an orangutan who preferred a bottle of cognac to water.
Page 12 - in special cases where the commercial interests of the Settlement are concerned. Few places offer greater natural facilities for commerce than Singapore and it is only desired that the advantage of these facilities be afforded to all who are competent to avail themselves of them in the proportion
Page 72 - They are mostly very poor. Originally, they come with the intention of returning to their native land after a sojourn of three or four years, but, out of ten, only one or two individuals are able to return after that time, and when they do retire, they do not take with them much wealth.
Page 12 - on a proper footing, it will be necessary to advert to the provincial and other distinctions among this peculiar people. It is well known that the people of one province are more quarrelsome than another, and that continued disputes and disturbances take place between people of different provinces. It will also be necessary to distinguish between the fixed residents and itinerants.
Page 546 - for the advancement of the education of the Colony with a view to laying securely the foundations upon which a University may in course of time be established,
Page 514 - records its inflexible determination to continue to a victorious end the struggle in maintenance of those ideals of Liberty and Justice which are the common and sacred cause of the Allies.
Page 430 - joined a society in Canton of some eighteen prominent members whose object was the mending or ending of the Manchu monarchical power. Of the eighteen members, seventeen were beheaded shortly after the inception of the idea, and Sun was the only member of the original " conspirators " left to carry on the great upheaval.
Page 39 - up to this time no Chinese woman had ever come to Singapore from China, and the newspapers said that, in fact, only two genuine Chinese women were, or at any time had been, in the place, and they were two small-footed ladies who had been, some years before, exhibited in England.