China: A History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1878 |
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... person residing in the house are also , in compliance with law , placed on the entrance door or outer wall of each dwelling - house . This custom appeared to me to be much more observed in the rural districts than in the cities and ...
... person residing in the house are also , in compliance with law , placed on the entrance door or outer wall of each dwelling - house . This custom appeared to me to be much more observed in the rural districts than in the cities and ...
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... person , the companions of insincerity , lying , flattery , treachery , cruelty , jealousy , ingratitude , avarice , and distrust of others . The Chinese are a weak and timid people , and in consequence , like all similarly constituted ...
... person , the companions of insincerity , lying , flattery , treachery , cruelty , jealousy , ingratitude , avarice , and distrust of others . The Chinese are a weak and timid people , and in consequence , like all similarly constituted ...
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... person who argues the case finds facts ready for his use which seem to him to demonstrate his own view . " I confess that the case is different with me . Faith in the race is a matter of intuition with me . I find here a steady 1 This ...
... person who argues the case finds facts ready for his use which seem to him to demonstrate his own view . " I confess that the case is different with me . Faith in the race is a matter of intuition with me . I find here a steady 1 This ...
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... person who argues the case finds facts ready for his use which seem to him to demonstrate his own view . 1. ) MORAL CHARACTER AND PROGRESS . 17 > adherence. ' I confess that the case is different with me . Faith in the race is a matter ...
... person who argues the case finds facts ready for his use which seem to him to demonstrate his own view . 1. ) MORAL CHARACTER AND PROGRESS . 17 > adherence. ' I confess that the case is different with me . Faith in the race is a matter ...
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... person nominated be a member of the blood - royal family or not . The desire to per- petuate his dynasty scarcely ever admits of the emperor select- ing one to fill the throne who is not a member of the reigning family . As a general ...
... person nominated be a member of the blood - royal family or not . The desire to per- petuate his dynasty scarcely ever admits of the emperor select- ing one to fill the throne who is not a member of the reigning family . As a general ...
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Page 179 - In the multitude of people is the king's honour : but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
Page 247 - 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 39 - 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 283 - 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 178 - 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 178 - They act," writes Mr. Low from the United States Legation, at Pekin, in an official letter2 to his government, " as advisers to the lower classes, and their good offices are sought by the governing class in the management of local concerns. By their superior intelligence they are enabled to control most of the property, and yet few acquire such wealth as would enable them to oppress the people, were they so disposed. " This class create the public opinion of the country, which exercises a controlling...
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Page 248 - that 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.
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 182 - Almost all Chinese, 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.