The Chinese, Bände 1-2C. Cox, 1851 |
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... China ; and these notes were compiled for a reason not alto- gether dissimilar to the motive which a French writer alleges for an undertaking of the same kind— " le désir de tout connaître , en étant obligé de le décrire . " A residence ...
... China ; and these notes were compiled for a reason not alto- gether dissimilar to the motive which a French writer alleges for an undertaking of the same kind— " le désir de tout connaître , en étant obligé de le décrire . " A residence ...
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Sir John Francis Davis. China , to both of which works it will be seen that reference has been more than once made in ... China , to separate the really sound and useful information it contains , from the prejudice which dis- torts some ...
Sir John Francis Davis. China , to both of which works it will be seen that reference has been more than once made in ... China , to separate the really sound and useful information it contains , from the prejudice which dis- torts some ...
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... China and India , as well as with Persia , rendered him peculiarly calculated to form a just estimate . The moral causes of a difference so striking may perhaps occur to the reader of the subjoined work : the physical causes consist ...
... China and India , as well as with Persia , rendered him peculiarly calculated to form a just estimate . The moral causes of a difference so striking may perhaps occur to the reader of the subjoined work : the physical causes consist ...
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... China who introduced the use of Eunuchs into the palace , it may be deemed probable that he borrowed them from thence . The contests of the Chinese with the Tartars , even at that early period , are stated to have been the occasion of a ...
... China who introduced the use of Eunuchs into the palace , it may be deemed probable that he borrowed them from thence . The contests of the Chinese with the Tartars , even at that early period , are stated to have been the occasion of a ...
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... China without having paved the way to a more frequent or intimate intercourse with that secluded country . The Jesuits have informed us , that some of the Catholic missionaries discovered , in the year 1625 , at one of the principal ...
... China without having paved the way to a more frequent or intimate intercourse with that secluded country . The Jesuits have informed us , that some of the Catholic missionaries discovered , in the year 1625 , at one of the principal ...
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according ancient appear arrival authority boats called Canton carried ceremony character chief China Chinese common conduct considerable considered consists contains course court death dynasty effect embassy emperor empire English equal established European existence extremely fact force foreign forms four give given hand head heaven Hong hundred immediately imperial king language length less letter Lord Macao mandarins manner means measure ment merchants native nature nearly never notice object observed occasion officers once original passed Peking perform perhaps period persons portion possess present priests principal proceeded proved province punished rank reached reason received relations remained remarkable respect river seems seen sent serve ships side sometimes soon success taken Tartar temple tion trade wall whole
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Seite 256 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object; can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt?
Seite 9 - Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength...
Seite 255 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave.
Seite 203 - And really it is an honour, and almost a singular one to our English laws, that they furnish a title of this sort ; since preventive justice is, upon every principle of reason, of humanity* and of sound policy, preferable in all respects to punishing justice...
Seite 223 - ... in which they are expressed. There is nothing here of the monstrous verbiage of most other Asiatic productions ; none of the superstitious deliration, the miserable incoherence, the tremendous...
Seite 255 - Now you shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of a shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Seite 240 - The barber learns his art on the orphan's face;" the Chinese, " In a field of melons do not pull up your shoe; under a plum-tree do not adjust your cap...
Seite 12 - These matters are all so well understood by those who are bred up to them, that they occasion no embarrassment whatever to the Chinese. The ordinary salutation among equals is to join the closed hands, and lift them two or three times towards the head, saying, Haou — tsing, tsing ; that is, " Are you well ? — Hail, hail '" Hence is derived, we believe, the Canton jargon of chin-chin.
Seite 32 - Portngalls had in all that time, since the return of the pinnace, so beslandered them to the Chinese, reporting them to be rogues, thieves, beggars, and what not, that they became very jealous of the good meaning of the English...
Seite 141 - And those who think still govern those who toil." The commentary appended to the foregoing in the Chinese work proceeds to add, — "The mutual benefit derived by these different classes from each other's exertions resembles the advantage that results to the farmer and mechanic from the exchange of their respective produce. Hence it is proved that the exemption of some from manual labour is beneficial to the whole community." It appears from the book of Mencius...