The Chinese, Bände 1-2C. Cox, 1851 |
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... conducted to the Mongol 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 ...
... conducted to the Mongol 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 ...
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... conduct , became a favourite with the Khan , and was employed by him for seventeen years ; after which he , with some difficulty , obtained permission to return to his own country . The accounts which he gave at Venice of the vast ...
... conduct , became a favourite with the Khan , and was employed by him for seventeen years ; after which he , with some difficulty , obtained permission to return to his own country . The accounts which he gave at Venice of the vast ...
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... at Canton . Their early conduct was not calculated to impress the Chinese with any favourable idea of Europeans ; and when , in course of time , they came to be competitors with the CHAP . I. ] EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE . 11.
... at Canton . Their early conduct was not calculated to impress the Chinese with any favourable idea of Europeans ; and when , in course of time , they came to be competitors with the CHAP . I. ] EARLY EUROPEAN INTERCOURSE . 11.
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... conducted a ship to China under a European flag , he was followed in the ensuing year by a fleet of eight vessels , under the command of Perez de Andrade , who , on reaching the coast , was surrounded by junks of war , and his movements ...
... conducted a ship to China under a European flag , he was followed in the ensuing year by a fleet of eight vessels , under the command of Perez de Andrade , who , on reaching the coast , was surrounded by junks of war , and his movements ...
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... conduct , expelled them the place ; and thus was for ever lost to them an establishment on the continent of China , in one of the provinces of the empire best adapted to the ends of European trade . The general behaviour of the ...
... conduct , expelled them the place ; and thus was for ever lost to them an establishment on the continent of China , in one of the provinces of the empire best adapted to the ends of European trade . The general behaviour of the ...
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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...