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 Canton...W.F. M'Laughlin, no. 28 North second-street, 1805 - 430 pages |
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... called a hypercritic ) who happened to visit Canton for a few months , some fifty years ago , has , with that happy confidence peculiar to his na- tion , not only pointed out the errors and defects of the in- formation communicated to ...
... called a hypercritic ) who happened to visit Canton for a few months , some fifty years ago , has , with that happy confidence peculiar to his na- tion , not only pointed out the errors and defects of the in- formation communicated to ...
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... called the van - lee- tchin , or wall of ten thousand lee , or three thousand English miles ; a length just double to that which the most authentic accounts have given of it . But when he means to inform any one that the emperor has ten ...
... called the van - lee- tchin , or wall of ten thousand lee , or three thousand English miles ; a length just double to that which the most authentic accounts have given of it . But when he means to inform any one that the emperor has ten ...
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... called , who sailed eastward from Kamskatka to such a distance as , in his mind , puts it beyond a doubt that the country he arrived at was no other than the coast of California . The Spanish writers , indeed , of the early voyages to ...
... called , who sailed eastward from Kamskatka to such a distance as , in his mind , puts it beyond a doubt that the country he arrived at was no other than the coast of California . The Spanish writers , indeed , of the early voyages to ...
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... called by them John Tuck . Not only the form of the ships , but the circumstances of the voyage , taken notice of by this ancient navigator , stamp his relation with authenticity ; the strong current between Mada- gascar and Zanzebar ...
... called by them John Tuck . Not only the form of the ships , but the circumstances of the voyage , taken notice of by this ancient navigator , stamp his relation with authenticity ; the strong current between Mada- gascar and Zanzebar ...
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... called him by the name of the latter . Their hair , it is true , and that only , differs . This , in a Hottentot , is rather harsh and wiry , than woolly , neither long , nor short , but twisted in hard curling ringlets , resembling ...
... called him by the name of the latter . Their hair , it is true , and that only , differs . This , in a Hottentot , is rather harsh and wiry , than woolly , neither long , nor short , but twisted in hard curling ringlets , resembling ...
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Page 252 - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Page 343 - 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.
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Page 253 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
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Page 107 - ... or locust, that will attack each other with such ferocity as seldom to quit their hold without bringing away at the same time a limb of their antagonist. These little creatures are fed and kept apart in bamboo cages; and the custom of making them devour each other is so common that, during the summer months, scarcely a boy is seen without his cage and his grasshoppers.
Page 168 - ... of life ; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same signs.
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Page 126 - As a direct refusal," he observes, " to any request would betray a want of good breeding, every proposal finds their immediate acquiescence : they promise without hesitation, but generally disappoint by the invention of some slight pretence or plausible objection : they have no proper sense of the obligations of truth.