Travels in China: Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-min-yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey Through the Country from Pekin to Canton...W.F. M'Laughlin, no. 28 North second-street, 1805 - 430 من الصفحات |
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... Missionaries in Foreign Countries . - Pride and Self - Importance of the Chinese Court . - List of European Embassies , and the Time of their Abode in Pekin . - Conclusion of Preliminary Subject . PAGE 1 CHAP . II . OCCURRENCES AND ...
... Missionaries in Foreign Countries . - Pride and Self - Importance of the Chinese Court . - List of European Embassies , and the Time of their Abode in Pekin . - Conclusion of Preliminary Subject . PAGE 1 CHAP . II . OCCURRENCES AND ...
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... Missionaries with regard to the religion of the Chinese . - The Tao - tze or Sons of Immortals . - Their Beverage of Life . - The Disciples of Fo , or Budhists . Comparison of some of the Hindu , Greek , Egyptian , and Chinese Deities ...
... Missionaries with regard to the religion of the Chinese . - The Tao - tze or Sons of Immortals . - Their Beverage of Life . - The Disciples of Fo , or Budhists . Comparison of some of the Hindu , Greek , Egyptian , and Chinese Deities ...
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... Missionaries in foreign Countries . - Pride and Self - Importance of the Chi- nese Court . - List of European Embassies , and the Time of their Abode in Pekin . Conclusion of Preliminary Subject . IT is hardly necessary to observe that ...
... Missionaries in foreign Countries . - Pride and Self - Importance of the Chi- nese Court . - List of European Embassies , and the Time of their Abode in Pekin . Conclusion of Preliminary Subject . IT is hardly necessary to observe that ...
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... missionaries are by no means satisfactory ; and some of their defects will be no- ticed and accounted for in the course of this work ; the chief aim of which will be to shew this extraordinary people in their proper colours , not as ...
... missionaries are by no means satisfactory ; and some of their defects will be no- ticed and accounted for in the course of this work ; the chief aim of which will be to shew this extraordinary people in their proper colours , not as ...
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... in the Tartar , Chinese , and Latin languages ; from the last of which , as rendered by the missionaries , the following is a literal translation . The contents were ad 1 dressed to the Council of India ; but , TRAVELS IN CHINA .
... in the Tartar , Chinese , and Latin languages ; from the last of which , as rendered by the missionaries , the following is a literal translation . The contents were ad 1 dressed to the Council of India ; but , TRAVELS IN CHINA .
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الصفحة 252 - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
الصفحة 343 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
الصفحة 312 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M.
الصفحة 253 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
الصفحة 245 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
الصفحة 81 - Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
الصفحة 107 - ... or locust, that will attack each other with such ferocity as seldom to quit their hold without bringing away at the same time a limb of their antagonist. These little creatures are fed and kept apart in bamboo cages; and the custom of making them devour each other is so common that, during the summer months, scarcely a boy is seen without his cage and his grasshoppers.
الصفحة 168 - ... of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same signs.
الصفحة 137 - ... besides ships, rocks, shells, sponges and corals, all 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...
الصفحة 126 - As a direct refusal," he observes, " to any request would betray a want of good breeding, every proposal finds their immediate acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth.