The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ...Wiley & Putnam, 1848 |
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Sivu vi
... leaves , and glass - Attainments in natural philosophy - Ideas of anatomy , and practice of medicine and surgery - Diseases . . 100 145 CHAPTER XVII . HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY OF CHINA . Cosmogony of the Chinese ; Pwanku and his deeds ...
... leaves , and glass - Attainments in natural philosophy - Ideas of anatomy , and practice of medicine and surgery - Diseases . . 100 145 CHAPTER XVII . HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY OF CHINA . Cosmogony of the Chinese ; Pwanku and his deeds ...
Sivu 2
... leaves of plants , eat wood , dwell in the wilderness , and live in the holes of the earth ; though born in the world , in such a condition I should not have been different from the beasts of the field . But now , happily , I have been ...
... leaves of plants , eat wood , dwell in the wilderness , and live in the holes of the earth ; though born in the world , in such a condition I should not have been different from the beasts of the field . But now , happily , I have been ...
Sivu 6
... leaf - shaped , or semi- circular , apertures , and it is thought desirable that they should not open opposite each other , lest evil spirits find their way from the street into the recesses of the dwelling . The rear rooms are lighted ...
... leaf - shaped , or semi- circular , apertures , and it is thought desirable that they should not open opposite each other , lest evil spirits find their way from the street into the recesses of the dwelling . The rear rooms are lighted ...
Sivu 10
... leaves and magnificent flowers rendering it a general favorite , and carp and other fish are reared in their waters ; gold fish are kept in small vessels or tanks . Whenever it is possible , a gallery runs along the sides of the pond ...
... leaves and magnificent flowers rendering it a general favorite , and carp and other fish are reared in their waters ; gold fish are kept in small vessels or tanks . Whenever it is possible , a gallery runs along the sides of the pond ...
Sivu 29
... leaves to shelter themselves from the rain . The principal articles of dress are inner and outer tunics of various lengths made of cotton or silk , reaching below the loins or to the feet ; the lapel on the right side folds over the ...
... leaves to shelter themselves from the rain . The principal articles of dress are inner and outer tunics of various lengths made of cotton or silk , reaching below the loins or to the feet ; the lapel on the right side folds over the ...
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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...