 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 338 pagina’s
...inscribe words and sentences on their girdles, and paste them on the lintels and posts of their doors, not only as moral sayings worthy to be remembered...and calamities often inflicted by invisible beings. 764. Beautiful fan for ladies' use, made in part of peacocks' feathers' 770. A lady's fan, elegantly... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 pagina’s
...inscribe words and sentences on their girdles, and paste them on the lintels and posts of their doors, not only as moral sayings worthy to be remembered...and calamities often inflicted by invisible beings. 7fi4. Beautiful fan for ladies' use, made in part of peacocks' feathers' and in part of elegantly embroidered... | |
 | William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - 1843 - 176 pagina’s
...inscribe words and sentences on their girdles, and paste them on the lintels and posts of their doors, not only as moral sayings worthy to be remembered...and calamities often inflicted by invisible beings, 764. Beautiful fan for ladies' use, made in part of peacocks' feathers, and in part of elegantly embroidered... | |
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... Here will also be noticed several " Charm-books," very small in size, and containing virtuous sentences, which are supposed to keep off evil spirits. These are carried about the person. The Chinese inscribe words and sentences on their girdles, and... 