By the end of Qianlong Emperor's long reign, the Qing Empire was at its zenith.

He was a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences, official translator of Western languages for Emperor Qianlong, and the spiritual leader of the French mission in Peking.

According to the standards of the Qianlong Emperor and successive regimes, " cooked " was synonymous with having assimilated to Han cultural norms, and living as a subject of the Empire, but retained a pejorative designation to signify the perceived cultural lacking of the non-Han people (), ().

The Temple of Heaven was renovated in the 18th century under the Qianlong Emperor.

King Taksin sent three diplomatic envoys to China in 1767, which then was under the reign of Qianlong Emperor.

By the Qianlong emperor's reign, the second expansion was well underway.

This novelty was introduced by his grandfather the Qianlong Emperor who thought it inappropriate to use a common character in the emperor's private name due to the long-standing practice of naming taboo.

Mianning was well liked by his grandfather the Qianlong Emperor and frequently accompanied the elderly emperor on hunting trips.

He was the son of the Qianlong Emperor.

This novelty was introduced by his father the Qianlong Emperor who thought it not proper to use a common character in the Emperor's private name due to the long-standing practice of naming taboo.

He was the fifteenth son of the Qianlong Emperor.

After the first two original choices for heir to the throne succumbed early to disease, in December 1773 Yongyan was secretly chosen by the Qianlong Emperor to succeed him.

The Qianlong Emperor ( Wade-Giles: Chien-lung Emperor ; born Hongli ( Wade-Giles: Hung-li ; ; Manchu language: ; Möllendorff transliteration: hung li ); 25 September 1711 – 7 February 1799 ) was the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty, and the fourth Qing emperor to rule over China proper.

Some historians argue that the main reason why Kangxi Emperor appointed Yongzheng as his successor was because Qianlong was his favourite grandson.

The Qianlong Emperor was a successful military leader.

Under Qianlong, Dzungar Khanate was incorporated into the Qing dynasty's rule and renamed Xinjiang, while to the West, Ili was conquered and garrisoned.

" Historian Peter Perdue has argued that the decimation of the Dzungars was the result of an explicit policy of massacre launched by the Qianlong emperor

The Qianlong Emperor was a major patron of the arts, seeing himself as an important " preserver and restorer " of Chinese culture.

" The Qianlong Emperor was a passionate poet and essayist.

He certainly didn't want a wife who was fickle as Ann.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Donna, his young wife, the girl who was both daughter and wife to him.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

Out in the center of the circle the farmer, who was Dan, wasted no time when they came to the line, `` The farmer choose his wife ''.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

`` You know who the other man was ''??

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

The 10th edition was a nine-volume supplement to the 9th, but the 11th edition was a completely new work, and is still praised for excellence ; its owner, Horace Hooper, lavished enormous effort on its perfection.

Elagabalus was married as many as five times, lavished favors on male courtiers popularly thought to have been his lovers, employed a prototype of whoopee cushions at dinner parties, and was reported to have prostituted himself in the imperial palace.

It was the birthplace of Emperor Septimius Severus, who lavished an extensive public works programme on the city, including diverting the course of a nearby river.

Featuring characters from Nintendo's various franchises, the game was a runaway commercial success in addition to being lavished with critical praise.

Her new husband was notorious for the patronage he lavished on his favourite, Piers Gaveston, but the queen supported Edward during these early years, forming a working relationship with Piers and using her relationship with the French monarchy to bolster her own authority and power.

All the arts of architecture and horticulture were lavished on Burghley House and Theobalds ( which his son, Robert, was to exchange with James I for Hatfield House ).

An unruly mob of office seekers made something of a shambles of the March inauguration, and though some tried to explain this as democratic enthusiasm, the real truth was Jackson supporters had been lavished with promises of positions in return for political support.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

When the work was performed at the Théâtre de l ' Athénée on 13 December 1867 it was a great success, and the Revue et Gazette Musicale's critic lavished particular praise on Bizet's act: " Nothing could be more stylish, smarter and, at the same time, more distinguished ".

Owing to the care which he lavished upon the proper maintenance of the army, Nikephoros II was compelled to exercise rigid economy in other departments.

He was his mother's favourite ; she called him chers yeux (" Precious Eyes ") and lavished fondness and affection upon him for most of his life.

Paston was noted as an " incomparable " woman who had " inestimable value clearly manifested by the eulogies which are lavished on her character ".

Against those who resisted his power, or refused to flatter his vanity, the prelate of Antioch was arrogant, rigid, and inexorable ; but he relaxed the discipline, and lavished the treasures of the church on his dependent clergy, who were permitted to imitate their master in the gratification of every sensual appetite.

The amount of money lavished on her visit by the Dublin Castle administration was greater to her own personal contributions to famine relief ( one banquet, for instance, cost over £ 5, 000 ) and the official celebrations surrounding her visit were compared to the act of " illuminating a graveyard " in a newspaper editorial at the time.

Renan's Life of Jesus was lavished with ironic praise and criticism by Albert Schweitzer in his book Quest of the Historical Jesus.

While Dan Leroy wrote that it was not very different from her previous work, and Stephen Holden of The New York Times and Natalie Nichols of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the album was formulaic, other critics, such as Chuck Eddy of Entertainment Weekly, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AMG and Daniel Durchholz, lavished the album as " compelling ", " passionate ", " stylish ", " elegant " and " remarkably well-crafted ".

It was lavished with critical acclaim for its refined design, though it was not released outside of Japan and remains a much sought after collectors ' item.

The attentions of the most skilful physicians were lavished upon him, and his life was saved for the stroke of justice.