China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1878 |
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... ground , towards the upper legs of the tressel by cords passing round the large toe of each foot . When the prisoner has been thus bound , the questions are again put to him , and should his answers be deemed un- satisfactory , the ...
... ground , towards the upper legs of the tressel by cords passing round the large toe of each foot . When the prisoner has been thus bound , the questions are again put to him , and should his answers be deemed un- satisfactory , the ...
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... ground . Some of the modes of capital punishment in China may justly be described as examples of abominable and revolting cruelty . I need not , however , anticipate details which it will be my unpleasant duty to narrate in the course ...
... ground . Some of the modes of capital punishment in China may justly be described as examples of abominable and revolting cruelty . I need not , however , anticipate details which it will be my unpleasant duty to narrate in the course ...
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... ground to the roof . They are paved with granite , and each is furnished with a raised wooden dais , on which the prisoners sit by day and sleep by night . They are polluted with vermin and filth of almost every kind , and the prisoners ...
... ground to the roof . They are paved with granite , and each is furnished with a raised wooden dais , on which the prisoners sit by day and sleep by night . They are polluted with vermin and filth of almost every kind , and the prisoners ...
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... ground - the common execution - ground - on which the officers and crew of the Narbuddha were decapitated . Several skulls were bleaching in the sun , and one of them , from the very high frontal bone , appeared to be the skull of a ...
... ground - the common execution - ground - on which the officers and crew of the Narbuddha were decapitated . Several skulls were bleaching in the sun , and one of them , from the very high frontal bone , appeared to be the skull of a ...
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... ground at full length , and , to judge from the attenuated appear- ance of prisoners who have undergone it , the punishment must be severe to a degree . The name of the prisoner and the nature of his offence are written on the cangue in ...
... ground at full length , and , to judge from the attenuated appear- ance of prisoners who have undergone it , the punishment must be severe to a degree . The name of the prisoner and the nature of his offence are written on the cangue in ...
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Page 251 - A certain man made a great supper, and bade many : and sent his servant, at supper time, to say to them that were bidden, Come ; for all things are now ready. And they all, with one consent, began to make excuse.
Page 285 - And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son ? And he said unto her, Give me thy son.
Page 41 - For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: and let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour...
Page 176 - He had to detect the exact place it was necessary to occupy between the rival political sections on the one hand, and the mass of the people on the other.
Page 252 - Ameen-ad-Dowlah, or second vizier, was to give an entertainment to the ambassador and suite ; and on the day appointed, as is usual in Persia, a messenger came to us, about five o'clock in the evening, to bid us to the feast. I might make use of scriptural language to commence my narration. A certain man made a great supper, and bade many, and sent his servant, at supper time, to say to them that were bidden, Come, for all things are ready.
Page 101 - ... dies, a new being is produced in a more or less painful and material state of existence, according to the karma, the desert or merit, of the being who had died.
Page 17 - ... withal, and an enduring sense of right and wrong. These all form what must be considered an essentially satisfactory basis and groundwork of national character. Among the people there is practical sense; among the gentry, scholarly instincts...
Page 180 - Balfour, loc. cit. vol. ii. p. 882. " robust or infirm, well-formed or deformed, are called upon by their parents to marry so soon as they have attained the age of puberty. Were a grown-up son or daughter to die unmarried, the parents would regard it as most deplorable.
Page 15 - ... word-symbols. In the same individual virtues and vices, apparently incompatible, are placed side by side. Meekness, gentleness, docility, industry, contentment, cheerfulness, obedience to superiors, dutifulness to parents, and reverence for the aged, are in one and the same person, the companions of insincerity, lying, flattery, treachery, cruelty, jealousy, ingratitude, avarice, and distrust of others.
Page 287 - Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and people making a noise.