Travels in China: Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey Through the Country from Pekin to CantonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804 - 632 pàgines |
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Pàgina 24
... obedience to the degrading demands of this haughty court , ferve only to feed its pride , and add to the abfurd notions of its own vaft importance . СНАР . II . Occurrences and Obfervations in the Navigation 24 TRAVELS IN CHINA .
... obedience to the degrading demands of this haughty court , ferve only to feed its pride , and add to the abfurd notions of its own vaft importance . СНАР . II . Occurrences and Obfervations in the Navigation 24 TRAVELS IN CHINA .
Pàgina 42
... ferve to measure the twelve portions of time , which make up a complete day . It should feem that the fuperftitious notions inculcated in the people have led them to fuppofe , that fome particular influence refides in the compafs ; for ...
... ferve to measure the twelve portions of time , which make up a complete day . It should feem that the fuperftitious notions inculcated in the people have led them to fuppofe , that fome particular influence refides in the compafs ; for ...
Pàgina 139
... ferve only to deprive her of liberty , and the fociety of her friends ; to render her a degraded victim , fubfervient to the fenfual gratification , the caprice , and the jealousy of tyrant man . Among favage tribes the labour and ...
... ferve only to deprive her of liberty , and the fociety of her friends ; to render her a degraded victim , fubfervient to the fenfual gratification , the caprice , and the jealousy of tyrant man . Among favage tribes the labour and ...
Pàgina 145
... ferve by way of juftification for those unnatural parents who might feel themselves difpofed , or who from want might be induced , to part with their children into perpetual flavery . A fon , fays one of their most celebrated lawgivers ...
... ferve by way of juftification for those unnatural parents who might feel themselves difpofed , or who from want might be induced , to part with their children into perpetual flavery . A fon , fays one of their most celebrated lawgivers ...
Pàgina 166
... ferve to explain the conduct of the Chinese in the following inftance . In the course of our journey down the grand canal we had occafion to witness a scene , which was confidered as a remarkable example of a want of fellow - feeling ...
... ferve to explain the conduct of the Chinese in the following inftance . In the course of our journey down the grand canal we had occafion to witness a scene , which was confidered as a remarkable example of a want of fellow - feeling ...
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Travels In China: Containing Descriptions, Observations, And Comparisons ... John Barrow Visualització completa - 1804 |
Travels in China: Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons ... Sir John Barrow Visualització completa - 1805 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 365 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Pàgina 48 - Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
Pàgina 141 - To beguile the many tedious and heavy hours, that must unavoidably occur to the secluded females totally unqualified for mental pursuits, the tobacco-pipe is the usual expedient. Every female from the age of eight or nine years wears, as an appendage to her dress, a small silken purse or pocket to hold tobacco and a pipe, with the use of which many of them are not unacquainted at this tender age. Some indeed are constantly employed in working embroidery on silks, or in painting birds, insects, and...
Pàgina 430 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Pàgina 27 - ... of science, or a single art for which they have not been indebted to some more ancient and more civilized race of men.
Pàgina 111 - ... ornamented with festoons of roses. Its splendid appearance and elevated situation determined it at once in the opinion of the majority as the Emperor's seat, but the difficulty arose as to how to appropriate the inside of the carriage. They examined the windows, blinds, and screens and at last concluded it could be for nobody but his ladies. The old eunuch came to Mr. Barrow for information, but when he learned that the fine elevated box...
Pàgina 507 - And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Pàgina 362 - It is true your majesty has committed a number of errors, and it has been the painful duty of our employment to take notice of them ; a duty which further obliges us to inform posterity of the conversation which your majesty has this day, very improperly, held with us.
Pàgina 165 - They even seemed not to know that such an accident had happened, nor could the shrieks of the boys, floating on pieces of the wreck, attract their attention. One fellow was observed very busily employed in picking up, with his boat-hook, the hat of a drowning man. It was in vain we endeavoured to prevail on the people of our vessel to heave to and send the boat to their assistance. It is true, we were then going at the rate of seven miles an hour, which was the plea they made for not stopping.
Pàgina 128 - Emperor delivered to me yesterday for the king. " It would be an endless task were I to attempt a detail of all the wonders of this charming place. There is no beauty of distribution, no feature of amenity, no reach of fancy, which embellishes our pleasure-grounds in England, that is not to be found here.