The Chinese as They are: Their Moral and Social Character, Manners, Customs, Language: with Remarks on Their Arts and Sciences, Medical Skill, the Extent of Missionary Enterprise, EtcG. Jones, 1843 - 116 pagina's |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 29 - Whoever is guilty of improper conduct, and such as is contrary to the spirit of the laws, though not a breach of any specific article, shall be punished at the least with forty blows ; and when the impropriety is of a serious nature, with eighty blows.
Pagina 2 - ... who have not only covered every spot of earth with inhabitants, but have streets and cities on the waters, — such a nation must indeed occupy a conspicuous place in the history of mankind...
Pagina 29 - ... world, in such a condition I should not have been different from the beasts of the field. But now, happily, I have been born in the Middle Kingdom. I have a house to live in ; have food, and drink, and elegant furniture ; have clothing, and caps, and infinite blessings. Truly the highest felicity is mine.
Pagina 40 - ... Maouyenshow. He announces that the renegade, by deserting his allegiance, led to the breach of truce, and occasioned all these calamities. The princess is no more ! and the K'han wishes for peace and friendship between the two nations. The envoy attends, with reverence, your imperial decision. EMPEROR. Then strike off the traitor's head, and be it presented as an offering to the shade of the princess ! Let a fit banquet be got ready for the envoy, preparatory to his return.
Pagina 40 - Leuhow alive — let her utter a word — which of them would dare to be of a different opinion? It would seem that, for the future, instead of men for ministers, we need only have fair women to keep our empire in peace. PRINCESS. In return for your Majesty's bounties, it is your handmaid's duty to brave death to serve you. I can cheerfully enter into this foreign alliance, for the sake of producing peace, and shall leave behind me a name still green in history. — But my affection for your Majesty,...
Pagina 29 - I felicitate myself that I was born in China, and constantly think how very different it would have been with me if I had been born beyond the seas in some remote part of the earth, where the...
Pagina 72 - After a few turns the monarch, who had been so highly honored as to find a place, through the partiality of a mountain nymph, in the abodes of the happy, begins to feel that no height of good fortune can secure a mortal against the common calamities of this frail life. A wicked courtier disguises himself in a tiger's skin, and in this garb imitates the animal itself.
Pagina 34 - ... of his superiors. He corrects himself and blames not others ; he feels no dissatisfaction. On the one hand, he murmurs not at heaven ; nor, on the other, does he feel resentment towards man. Hence, the superior man dwells at ease, entirely waiting the will of heaven.
Pagina 40 - The lonely silence of night but increases our melancholy! We take the picture of that fair one and suspend it here, as some small solace to our griefs. ^[To the attendant.] Keeper of the yellow gate, behold, the incense in yonder vase is burnt out: hasten then to add some more. Though we cannot see her, we may at least retain this shadow; and, while life remains, betoken our regard.
Pagina 60 - Respect to parents and elders, obedience to law, chastity, kindness, economy, prudence, and self-possession are the never-failing themes for remark and illustration. . . . The happiness and general prosperity of the Chinese are so conspicuous that they merit a short analysis. Let us see then of what elements they are compounded : — '(l) An habitual readiness to labour.