The Chinese, Bände 1-2C. Cox, 1851 |
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... Tartar conquest , they resorted to that rich country by sea chiefly , and in the character of traders . Subsequent to the establishment of the Mongol Tartar dynasty by Zenghis Khan , China was visited by the Arab , Ibn Batuta , whose ...
... Tartar conquest , they resorted to that rich country by sea chiefly , and in the character of traders . Subsequent to the establishment of the Mongol Tartar dynasty by Zenghis Khan , China was visited by the Arab , Ibn Batuta , whose ...
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... Tartar court , just as the great Khan was about to be installed . Carpini was astonished by the display of immense treasures ; and , having been kindly treated , was sent back with a friendly letter : he was rather pleased than ...
... Tartar court , just as the great Khan was about to be installed . Carpini was astonished by the display of immense treasures ; and , having been kindly treated , was sent back with a friendly letter : he was rather pleased than ...
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... Tartar dominion , established by this handful of barbarians , has unquestionably occasioned many additional obstacles to an increased commerce with the rest of the world . We have already noticed the Chinese junks , which were seen by ...
... Tartar dominion , established by this handful of barbarians , has unquestionably occasioned many additional obstacles to an increased commerce with the rest of the world . We have already noticed the Chinese junks , which were seen by ...
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... Tartar hierarchy has in later times been given by Père Gaubil . The Portuguese adventurers at length quitted the Tartars , found their way to the coast , and embarked again for Ningpo . Being treacherously abandoned on a desolate island ...
... Tartar hierarchy has in later times been given by Père Gaubil . The Portuguese adventurers at length quitted the Tartars , found their way to the coast , and embarked again for Ningpo . Being treacherously abandoned on a desolate island ...
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... the indifference which the present Tartar government affects to feel towards it . Subsequent to a temporary prohibition of foreign trade , a certain Fooyuen of Canton thus addressed the CHAP . I. ] EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE . 15.
... the indifference which the present Tartar government affects to feel towards it . Subsequent to a temporary prohibition of foreign trade , a certain Fooyuen of Canton thus addressed the CHAP . I. ] EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE . 15.
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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...