The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the ... Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants ...Wiley & Putnam, 1848 |
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Sivu 3
... reigns , the monarchs of China , with equal or greater resources at command , never indulged in this princely pastime , nor even attempted the erection of any enduring monument to commemorate their taste or their splendor . Whether it ...
... reigns , the monarchs of China , with equal or greater resources at command , never indulged in this princely pastime , nor even attempted the erection of any enduring monument to commemorate their taste or their splendor . Whether it ...
Sivu 109
... , 526. Chinese Repository , Vol . II . , p . 350 ; Vol . III . , pp . 121 , 231 ; Vol . V. , p . 485. La Chine Ouverte , p . 346. Fo- reign Missionary Chronicle , Vol . XIII . , p . 296 . the sole , ray , and other fish feeding near.
... , 526. Chinese Repository , Vol . II . , p . 350 ; Vol . III . , pp . 121 , 231 ; Vol . V. , p . 485. La Chine Ouverte , p . 346. Fo- reign Missionary Chronicle , Vol . XIII . , p . 296 . the sole , ray , and other fish feeding near.
Sivu 156
... reign of Taukwang , a " cake of pure silver weighing 7 mace 2 candareens . " The reverse presented a tripod to denote that it was a government coin , and the word Formosa in Manchu . Spanish and South American dollars are employed as a ...
... reign of Taukwang , a " cake of pure silver weighing 7 mace 2 candareens . " The reverse presented a tripod to denote that it was a government coin , and the word Formosa in Manchu . Spanish and South American dollars are employed as a ...
Sivu 198
... reigns continued eighteen thousand years ( more or less according to the author quoted ) , during which time good government commenced , men learned to eat and drink , the sexes united , sleep was invented , and other improvements ...
... reigns continued eighteen thousand years ( more or less according to the author quoted ) , during which time good government commenced , men learned to eat and drink , the sexes united , sleep was invented , and other improvements ...
Sivu 199
... reign of Fuhhí can be settled , or even ascertained with any probability by comparison with the history of other nations , or with existing remains , it would tend not a little to settle some disputed chronological points in other ...
... reign of Fuhhí can be settled , or even ascertained with any probability by comparison with the history of other nations , or with existing remains , it would tend not a little to settle some disputed chronological points in other ...
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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...