The Eternal Priestess: A Novel of China MannersDodd, Mead, 1914 - 416 sivua |
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The Eternal Priestess: A Novel of China Manners (Classic Reprint) B. L. Putnam Weale Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2017 |
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amused arms asked began believe Belle Lawson breath Canton carriage China Chinese Chu Ta Ming Chuang Tzu commenced cried curious dear door dream dressed English everything exclaimed eyes face foreign Frenchman friends gazing hands head heard hour houseboat Huang Hsing inquired Jacks Jerrins knew laughed light listened Lizzie looked round Mabel Macniversen Major Malwa Manchus manner matter mind Minnie morning Mortiboy Mortiboy's murmured native never night once paused play Polly quickly realised remarked replied sampans seemed servant shook silence Sir John Weeger slowly smiled sort sound speak spite stared stood stopped strange suddenly Sun Wen Szechuan talking tell things thought tion to-night told Tommy Gibbon turned verandah Vicomte de Crébillon voice waiting watching whilst whispered Willy Chang woman women wondering words Yang Chu Yao girls young Cantonese
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Sivu 332 - Herself the supreme type of vice, she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue. But for her, the unchallenged purity of countless happy homes would be polluted, and not a few who, in the pride of their untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would have known the agony of remorse and of despair.
Sivu 307 - His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint...
Sivu 30 - While they dream, they do not know that they dream. Some will even interpret the very dream they are dreaming; and only when they awake do they know it was a dream. By and by comes the Great Awakening, and then we find out that this life is really a great dream. Fools think they are awake now, and flatter themselves they know if they are really princes or peasants. Confucius and you are both dreams; and I who say you are dreams, — I am but a dream myself.
Sivu 310 - To which the Spirit of the Ocean replied, " You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, — the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, — the creature of a season. You cannot speak of TAO to a pedagogue : his scope is too restricted. But now that you have emerged from your narrow sphere and have seen the great ocean, you know your own insignificance, and I can speak to you of great principles.
Sivu 61 - ... identical. So are ugliness and beauty, greatness, wickedness, perverseness, and strangeness. Separation is the same as construction: construction is the same as destruction. Nothing is subject either to construction or to destruction, for these conditions are brought together into One. "Only the truly intelligent understand this principle of the identity of all things.
Sivu 332 - Under these circumstances, there has arisen in society a figure which is certainly the most mournful, and in some respects the most awful, upon which the eye of the moralist can dwell. That unhappy being whose very name is a shame to speak ; who counterfeits with a cold heart the transports of affection, and submits herself as the passive instrument of lust ; who is scorned and insulted as the vilest of her sex, and doomed, for the most part, to disease...
Sivu 310 - A vulgar proverb says that he who has heard but part of the truth thinks no one equal to himself. And such a one am I. "When formerly I heard people detracting from the learning of Confucius or underrating the heroism of Poh I, I did not believe.
Sivu 173 - I am the sacrificial rite. I am the libation offered to ancestors. I am the drug. I am the incantation. I am the sacrificial butter also. I am the fire. I am the incense. I am the father, the mother, the sustainer, the grandfather of the universe — the mystic doctrine, the purification, the syllable "Om...
Sivu 332 - On that one degraded and ignoble form are concentrated the passions that might have filled the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilisations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for the sins of the people.
Sivu 124 - If you adopt, as absolute, a standard of evenness which is so only relatively, your results will not be absolutely even. If you adopt, as absolute, a criterion of right which is so only relatively, your results will not be absolutely right. Those who trust to their senses become, as it were, slaves to objective existences.