How To Use tael In A Sentence
- Therefore to convert Lanchow cash into Tientsin cash you must divide the Lanchow cash by 3, count 975 as 1000, and consider this equal to a certain percentage of a theoretical amount of silver known as a tael, which is always varying of itself as well as by the fluctuations in the market value of silver, and which is not alike in any two places, and may widely vary in different portions of the same place. AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
- The savvy businessman demanded a high annual rent of 50,000 taels of silver, and after 30 years, he wanted the Kwok family to return both the land and the store to his interests.
- The historian Sismondi declared, "You have not known Madame de Staël at all if you have not seen her with Benjamin Constant. The Great de Staël
- Though the victim of this armed aggression, China was forced to pay the aggressor 21 million taels of silver in ‘war reparation’ and opened five trading ports.
- Literary romanticism, of which Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael were the harbingers, owed its existence to a longing for a greater fulness of thought, a greater intenseness of feeling, a greater appropriateness and adequateness of expression, and, above all, a greater truth to life and nature. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
- Mad'e. de Stael Holstein has lost one of her young barons [2], who has been carbonadoed by a vile Teutonic adjutant, -- kilt and killed in a coffee-house at Scrawsenhawsen. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
- The reac - tion to the scholarly Sismondi was fairly mild, to the foreign Schlegel violent, and to Madame de Staël it was mixed and frequently baffled. ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
- It invested over 773,000 taels to reconstruct the shipbuilding factory.
- Madame de Stael: "To understand everything means to forgive everything," has never particularly appealed to me; it has the odor of the confessional; to forgive one's fellow-being conveys the idea of pharisaical superiority. Anarchism and Other Essays
- He believes that even craftsmen and laborers above the lowest level, who generally made 1.5 tael or so a month plus payments in kind, could afford books, but this assumes that they could save a tael a month.
