A Visit to India, China, and Japan, in the Year 1853G. P. Putnam & Company, 1885 - 539 pages |
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Page 354 - It is my deliberate opinion that the Chinese are morally the most debased people on the face of the earth. Forms of vice which in other countries are barely named, are in China so common that they excite no comment among the natives. They constitute the surface level, and below them are deeps on deeps of depravity, so shocking and horrible that their character cannot even be hinted.
Page 146 - A melancholy reflection on the vicissitudes of human greatness forced itself on his mind, and he repeated an elegant distich of Persian poetry: 'The spider has wove his web in the Imperial palace, and the owl hath sung her watch-song on the towers of Afrasiab.
Page 107 - They are precious caskets of marble, glittering all over with jasper, agate, cornelian, bloodstone, and lapislazuli, and topped with golden domes. Balustrades of marble wrought in open patterns of such rich design that they resemble fringes of lace when seen from below, extend along the edge of the battlements.
Page 440 - I have reason to know that the final success of the Expedition was owing to no fortunate combination of circumstances, but wholly to the prudent and sagacious plan pre-arranged by its Commander.
Page 137 - A single musical tone, uttered by the voice, floats and soars overhead, in a long delicious undulation, fainting away so slowly that you hear it after it is silent, as you see, or seem to see, a lark you have been watching, after it is swallowed up in the blue of heaven. I pictured to myself the effect of an Arabic or Persian lament for the lovely Noor-Jehan, sung over her tomb.
Page 70 - Or over hills with peaky tops engrailed, And many a tract of palm and rice, The throne of Indian Cama slowly sailed A summer fanned with spice. Or sweet Europa's mantle blew unclasped From off her shoulder backward borne : From one hand drooped a crocus : one hand grasped The mild bull's golden horn.
Page 109 - It is lifted on a lofty sandstone platform, and from without nothing can be seen but its three domes of white marble with their gilded spires. In all distant views of the Fort these domes are seen, like silvery bubbles which have rested a moment on its walls, and which the next breeze will sweep away.
Page 273 - K too, towards those of our own Caucasian blood, where there is no instinct of race to excuse their unjust prejudice. Why is it that the virtue of Exeter Hall and Stafford House can tolerate this fact without a blush, yet condemn, with pharisaic zeal, the social inequality of the negro and the white races in America ? " We fear there is too much ground for this indignant remonstrance.
Page 354 - There are some dark shadows in human nature, which we naturally shrink from penetrating, and I made no attempt to collect information of this kind; but there was enough in the things which I could not avoid seeing and hearing — which are brought almost daily to the notice of every foreign resident — to inspire me with a powerful aversion to the Chinese race. Their touch is pollution, and, harsh as the opinion may seem, justice to our own race demands that they should not be allowed to settle...
Page 137 - BO light it seems, so airy, and, when seen from a distance, so like a fabric of mist and sunbeams, with its great dome soaring up, a silvery bubble, about to burst in the sun, that, even after you have touched it, and climbed to its summit, you almost doubt its reality.