Bibliotheca sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'Empire chinois, Volume 1

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E. Guilmoto, 1904 - 4439 pages
 

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Page 697 - Christ and other Masters. A Historical Inquiry into some of the Chief Parallelisms and Contrasts between Christianity and the Religious Systems of the Ancient World. New Edition, revised, and a Prefatory Memoir by the Rev. FRANCIS PROCTER.
Page 333 - The Mishmee Hills : an Account of a Journey made in an Attempt to Penetrate Thibet from Assam, to open New Routes for Commerce. Second Edition. With Four Illustrations and Map. Post 8vo. Cloth, price IDS. 6d. Cornhill Library of Fiction (The). Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 3$ . 6d. per volume. Half-a-Dozen Daughters.
Page 747 - ALABASTER.— THE WHEEL OF THE LAW: Buddhism illustrated from Siamese Sources by the Modern Buddhist, a Life of Buddha, and an Account of the Phra Bat. By Henry Alabaster, Esq., Interpreter of Her Majesty's Consulate-General in Siam, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Page 281 - An historical and geographical description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan, giving an account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, etc., of the inhabitants.
Page 189 - Smith. — A VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH. of Places, Persons, Tribes, and Sects, in China, Japan, Corea, Assam, Siam, Burmah, The Straits, and adjacent Countries. By F. PORTER SMITH, MB, London, Medical Missionary in Central China. 4to. half-bound, pp. vi., 72, and x. 1870. 10«.
Page 669 - The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most illustrious in the world. After a painful ascent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle ages; but, in the vast equality of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius have maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered, by the sovereign and the people, as the lively image of the wisest of mankind.
Page 723 - Vertu, composé, dans le vi* siècle avant l'ère chrétienne, par le philosophe Lao-tseu, traduit en français et publié avec le texte chinois et un commentaire 'perpétuel , par Stanislas Julien, "membre de l'Institut et professeur au Collège de France.
Page 95 - Boards 4 o CHINA : THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE OF. A short Account of the Geography, History, Religion, Social Life, Arts, Industries, and Government of China and its People. By J. THOMSON, Esq., FRGS, Author of " Illustrations of China and its ^ People, &c.
Page 327 - Bhamo Expedition. — Report on the practicability of re-opening the Trade Route, between Burma and Western China. By Captain A. Bowers, RNR Commercial Agent attached to the Expedition under Captain EB Sladen, British political Agent at the Court of Mandalay.
Page 281 - Formosa, an island subject to the Emperor of Japan, giving an account of the religion, customs, manners, &c., of the inhabitants ; together with a relation of what happened to the author in his travels, particularly his conferences with the Jesuits and others in several parts of Europe. Also the history and reasons of his conversion to Christianity, with his objections against it in defence of Paganism, and their answers, &c.

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