The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ...Wiley & Putnam, 1848 |
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Sivu 2
... considered his own country preferable to the neighboring regions ; and that while the Chinese possessed food and drink , clothing and caps , houses and furniture , the rest of the world , in his opinion , was destitute of them . The ...
... considered his own country preferable to the neighboring regions ; and that while the Chinese possessed food and drink , clothing and caps , houses and furniture , the rest of the world , in his opinion , was destitute of them . The ...
Sivu 12
... considered rather un- lucky to have them exactly even . The names of the streets , instead of being marked on the corners of the blocks , are written on the gateways at their ends ; and as each division makes a sepa- rate neighborhood ...
... considered rather un- lucky to have them exactly even . The names of the streets , instead of being marked on the corners of the blocks , are written on the gateways at their ends ; and as each division makes a sepa- rate neighborhood ...
Sivu 17
... considered as so peculiar to the Chinese , that a land- scape or painting relating to China without a pagoda perched on a hill , like one of Egyptian scenery destitute of a pyramid or a desert plain , would be considered deficient . The ...
... considered as so peculiar to the Chinese , that a land- scape or painting relating to China without a pagoda perched on a hill , like one of Egyptian scenery destitute of a pyramid or a desert plain , would be considered deficient . The ...
Sivu 28
... considered a high honor , and perhaps the term triumphal was given them from this circumstance . The economical and peace- ful nature of such honors conferred upon distinguished men in China is highly characteristic ; a man is allowed ...
... considered a high honor , and perhaps the term triumphal was given them from this circumstance . The economical and peace- ful nature of such honors conferred upon distinguished men in China is highly characteristic ; a man is allowed ...
Sivu 42
... considered proper for a man under forty . Pomatum and cologne - water are unknown . Snuff bottles and tobacco pipes are carried and used by both sexes , the practice of chewing betel - nut is confined to the men , and red- dens their ...
... considered proper for a man under forty . Pomatum and cologne - water are unknown . Snuff bottles and tobacco pipes are carried and used by both sexes , the practice of chewing betel - nut is confined to the men , and red- dens their ...
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ambassy Amoy arrived authorities Batavia better boats British brought Budhist called Canton Captain Elliot carried ceremonies character chiefly China Chinese government Chinese Repository Chinkiang Christian coast Cochinchina color commenced common conduct Confucius countrymen court death dynasty emperor emperor of China empire endeavored England English exhibited exportation favor feet fire force foreigners Fuhkien governor heaven hong-merchants Hongkong imperial India intercourse Jesuits Kíying Koxinga labors land laws learned Lord Lord Napier Macao Malacca Manchus ment merchants mission missionaries mode monarch Mongols Morrison nations native Ningpo officers opium trade party Peking persons ports Portuguese present priests provinces received regard reign religion returned river rulers sent Shanghai ships silk Singapore society soon streets subjects supposed taken Tang dynasty taste temples tion treaty treaty of Nanking troops vessels Whampoa whole worship
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Sivu 224 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you...
Sivu 245 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Sivu 539 - Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana...
Sivu 539 - Our minister, Caleb Cushing, is authorized to make a treaty to regulate trade. Let it be just. Let there be no unfair advantage on either side.
Sivu 85 - Hardly prepared for this blow to my established notions, I requested he would discourse of their philosophy. He reopened the volume, and read with becoming gravity, ' The most learned men are decidedly of opinion that the seat of the human understanding is the stomach.'* I seized the volume in despair, and rushed from the apartment.
Sivu 540 - Pekin, and there deliver it ; and that your great officers will, by your order, make a treaty with him to regulate affairs of trade, so that nothing may happen to disturb the peace between China and America. Let the treaty be signed by your own imperial hand. It shall be signed by mine, by the authority of our great council, the Senate. And so may your health be good, and may peace reign.
Sivu 88 - With a general regard for outward decency, they are vile and polluted in a shocking degree, their conversation is full of filthy expressions, and their lives of impure acts.
Sivu 445 - The barbarians are like beasts, and not to be ruled on the same principles as citizens. Were any one to attempt controlling them by the great maxims of reason, it would tend to nothing but confusion. The ancient kings well understood this, and accordingly ruled barbarians by misrule. Therefore, to rule barbarians by misrule is the true and the best way of ruling them.
Sivu 540 - Fu-chow, and all such other places as may offer profitable exchanges both to China and the United States, provided they do not break your laws nor our laws. We shall not take the part of evil-doers. We shall not uphold them that break your laws. Therefore, we doubt not that you will be pleased...
Sivu 507 - Emperor he described how he had braved the hottest of the fight " on the battle-field, where cannon balls innumerable, flying in awful confusion through the expanse of Heaven, fell before, behind, and on either side of him, while in the distance he saw the ships of the rebels, standing erect, lofty as the mountains. The fierce daring of the rebels was inconceivable. Officers and men fell at their posts. Every effort to resist and check the...