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Сторінка 38 - the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty...
Сторінка 401 - 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. There are some dark shadows in human nature which we naturally shrink from penetrating, and I...
Сторінка 427 - The cross, the mitre, the dalmatica, the cope, which the Grand Lamas wear on their journeys, or when they are performing some ceremony out of the temple ; the service with double choirs, the psalmody, the exorcisms, the censer suspended from five chains...
Сторінка 192 - Europeans were disposed in a rank near a bridge at no great distance from the palace, where we awaited the arrival of his Majesty upon our knees. On passing by, he paid particular attention to each of us, and smilingly inquired which were those employed in drawing the map. A vast number of aged but healthy men had been sent to Peking from all the provinces. They were in companies, bearing the banner of their respective provinces. They also carried various other symbols and trophies, and being symmetrically...
Сторінка 46 - It is manifest from this article, that parents are not in any case absolutely entrusted with a power over the lives of their children, and that accordingly the crime of infanticide, however prevalent it may be supposed to be in China, is not in fact either directly sanctioned by the government, or agreeable to the general spirit of the laws and institutions of the empire.
Сторінка 401 - 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...
Сторінка 209 - There arc four covered copper jars standing on a brickwork stairway, the top of each of which is level with the bottom of the one above it. The largest measures 23 inches high and broad, and contains 70 catties or...
Сторінка 191 - Whoever is ascertained to be aged or infirm at the period of trial for any offence, shall be allowed the benefit of such plea, although he may not have attained the full age or laboured under the alleged infirmity at the time the offence was committed.
Сторінка 410 - Heaven, and the sacred writings, amounting to fifty-three sections, were thus obtained. Their contents are deep and mysterious, their promises calculated to influence men's good feelings, and their threatenings to repress their corrupt imaginations. The doctrines were again handed down to the time of the reformer of religion and wise...
Сторінка 84 - Dry and elevated situations are much more suitable for the cultivation of tea than low and damp ones ; the consequence is, that the in-gathering is often very difficult ; especially that of the best kind of tea. Men could not, without the greatest difficulty, hold on at the side of the peaks ; one false step might be the cause of severe wounds, or, at least, injure or tear up the young trees. Sometimes the sides are so sharp and pointed, that it would not be possible for men to climb up. To overcome...