China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1878 |
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... WIFE AND CHILDREN OF AN OPIUM - SMOKER 218 TRIAL OF AN ADULTRESS IN AN ANCESTRAL HALL 220 FLOGGING AN ADULTERER 226 A CHILD'S FIRST VISIT TO ITS GODMOTHER 232 BANDAGING THE FEET . 234 A DISOBEDIENT SON IN FETTERS . 236 A SON BEING PUT ...
... WIFE AND CHILDREN OF AN OPIUM - SMOKER 218 TRIAL OF AN ADULTRESS IN AN ANCESTRAL HALL 220 FLOGGING AN ADULTERER 226 A CHILD'S FIRST VISIT TO ITS GODMOTHER 232 BANDAGING THE FEET . 234 A DISOBEDIENT SON IN FETTERS . 236 A SON BEING PUT ...
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... wives . These are eight in number , and have the rank and title of queens . These royal ladies are divided into two classes , the first of which consists of three , and the second of five queens . In addition to the wives there are , of ...
... wives . These are eight in number , and have the rank and title of queens . These royal ladies are divided into two classes , the first of which consists of three , and the second of five queens . In addition to the wives there are , of ...
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... wife was selected in this way for the late emperor , Tung - chee . The name of their new Empress was made known to the Chinese people by the Pekin Gazette of the 11th of March , 1872. The proclamation issued in the names of the two ...
... wife was selected in this way for the late emperor , Tung - chee . The name of their new Empress was made known to the Chinese people by the Pekin Gazette of the 11th of March , 1872. The proclamation issued in the names of the two ...
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... wife or concubine she hoped to become if she could get rid of her husband , who was a peasant , she resolved to remove the obstacle in the way of what she regarded as her advancement in life by poison . At the time of her execution she ...
... wife or concubine she hoped to become if she could get rid of her husband , who was a peasant , she resolved to remove the obstacle in the way of what she regarded as her advancement in life by poison . At the time of her execution she ...
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... Wives , also , whose husbands are convicts , are , by the same merciful consideration , allowed to sojourn with their husbands in the penal settlements . The imperial clemency is also extended to all offenders who are idiots , or who ...
... Wives , also , whose husbands are convicts , are , by the same merciful consideration , allowed to sojourn with their husbands in the penal settlements . The imperial clemency is also extended to all offenders who are idiots , or who ...
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Page 255 - 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 289 - 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 182 - 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 256 - 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 107 - ... 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 186 - 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 291 - Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and people making a noise.