An Historical and Descriptive Account of China: Its Ancient and Modern History, Language, Literature, Religion, Government, Industry, Manners, and Social State; Intercourse with Europe from the Earliest Ages; Missions and Embassies to the Imperial Court; British and Foreign Commerce; Directions to Navigators; State of Mathematics and Astronomy; Survey of Its Geography, Geology, Botany, and Zoology, المجلد 1Oliver & Boyd, 1836 |
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الصفحة 32 - Europe, — the compass, gunpowder, printing, — were known and practised many centuries earlier, — who probably amount to more than two hundred millions* united in one system of manners, letters, and polity, — who in every province have towns that rival the greatest capitals in our part of the world, — who have not only covered every spot of earth with inhabitants, but have streets and cities on the waters, — such a nation must indeed occupy a conspicuous place in the history of mankind...
الصفحة 153 - Sinse, they stop and spend a few days in festivity, using the mats for lying upon ; they then return to the abode of their countrymen in the interior. The Sinse next repair to the place and take up the articles which they left, and having drawn out the stalks and fibres, they nicely double the leaves, make them into a circular shape, and thrust into them the fibres of the reeds. Thus three kinds of malabathrum are formed ; that from the larger leaf is called hadrosphaerum; that from the middling...
الصفحة 32 - Their civilization/' says Williams, " has been developed under peculiar forms and influences, and must be compared to, rather than judged of by that of Europeans ; the dissimilarity is as wide, perhaps, as can possibly exist between two races of beings having the same common nature and wants. A people...
الصفحة 313 - ... performed by concealed actors who were quite perfect in their parts, and performed their characters to admiration. These two marine and land regiments, after separately parading in a circular procession for a considerable time, at last joined together, and forming one body, came to the front of the stage, when, after a few evolutions, they opened to the right and left to give room for the whale, who seemed to be the commanding officer, to waddle forward, and who, taking his station exactly opposite...
الصفحة 178 - In the world there is not the like, nor a place in which there are found so many pleasures, that a man would imagine himself in paradise.
الصفحة 59 - Under Ping-ouang, about 750, B. c., began that dreadful era characterized by the wars of the tributary princes, which lasted, with short intervals, 500 years. During all this time, China, which we have been accustomed to view as a peaceful...
الصفحة 32 - ... of Europeans ; the dissimilarity is as wide, perhaps, as can possibly exist between two races of beings having the same common nature and wants. A people by whom some of the most important inventions of modern Europe were anticipated (such as the compass, porcelain, gunpowder, paper, printing), and were known and practised many centuries earlier; who probably amount to more than...
الصفحة 8 - Tables and other works display a thorough acquaintance, not only with the scientific principles of his profession, but also with the intricate straits and channels to which he here supplies a guide. In composing the chapter for which we are indebted to him, he communicated with Captain Horsburgh, who liberally allowed the use of his valuable collections.
الصفحة 60 - ... appearance of such men at this turbulent epoch may at first view excite surprise ; yet it is not inconsistent with the general train of human events. A uniform tenor of life, and monotonous circle of objects, are by no means favourable to the development of the higher faculties of the understanding. Amid sudden changes and revolutions, attended by striking scenes, the powers of thought and invention are roused. Such agitations produce great activity in the soul of man, and impel it to the extremes,...
الصفحة 7 - Without entering into a minute detail of facts, he has sought to exhibit tha advances made in civilization and the arts ; the most memorable events that distinguished the successive dynasties; together with a philosophical view of the causes whence originated their rise and their downfall. . He then adverts to the knowledge possessed by the Greeks and Romans relative to China ; on which subject he presumes to hope that he has thrown additional light, by tracing an early maritime route to Canton,...