The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ...Wiley & Putnam, 1848 |
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... TAU PRIESTS JUMPING THROUGH THE FIRE , 247 ANCESTRAL HALL AND WORSHIP OF TABLETS , BUDHIST PRIESTS , 268 273 MAN CONSULTING A FORTUNE - Teller , MANNER OF SMOKING OPIUM , 277 392 CONTENTS OF VOL . II . wwwww CHAPTER XIII .
... TAU PRIESTS JUMPING THROUGH THE FIRE , 247 ANCESTRAL HALL AND WORSHIP OF TABLETS , BUDHIST PRIESTS , 268 273 MAN CONSULTING A FORTUNE - Teller , MANNER OF SMOKING OPIUM , 277 392 CONTENTS OF VOL . II . wwwww CHAPTER XIII .
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... fire . The poor build a sort of brick fireplace , which by day is used for cooking , and at night for a bed , by placing felt carpets over the warm bricks , where all the family sleep . Every effort is made to hus- band fuel , which is ...
... fire . The poor build a sort of brick fireplace , which by day is used for cooking , and at night for a bed , by placing felt carpets over the warm bricks , where all the family sleep . Every effort is made to hus- band fuel , which is ...
Sivu 11
... fire , however , these lumbered roofs become like so many tinder - boxes , and aid not a little to spread the flames . The narrowness of the streets in Chinese cities is a source of more inconveniences than benefits ; few of them exceed ...
... fire , however , these lumbered roofs become like so many tinder - boxes , and aid not a little to spread the flames . The narrowness of the streets in Chinese cities is a source of more inconveniences than benefits ; few of them exceed ...
Sivu 12
... fire , it is difficult to get access to the burn- ing buildings , and troublesome and dangerous for the inmates to move or save their property . At all times , porters carrying burdens are impeded by the crowd of passengers thronging ...
... fire , it is difficult to get access to the burn- ing buildings , and troublesome and dangerous for the inmates to move or save their property . At all times , porters carrying burdens are impeded by the crowd of passengers thronging ...
Sivu 15
... fire near by , perhaps shaving his friend gratis by way of recom- pense . " The herbseller chooses an open place where he will not be trampled on , and there displays his simples and his plasters , while the dentist , with a ghastly ...
... fire near by , perhaps shaving his friend gratis by way of recom- pense . " The herbseller chooses an open place where he will not be trampled on , and there displays his simples and his plasters , while the dentist , with a ghastly ...
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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...