| Samuel Wells Williams - 1882 - 1582 pàgines
...Justinian. Col. Yule concisely summarizes the knowledge of China down to that date among the Romans : " The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country,...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper ; eschewing collisions with their neighbors, and even... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1882 - 812 pàgines
...Justinian. Col. Yule concisely summarizes the knowledge of China down to that date among the Romans : " The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country,...the habitable world ; and extending west nearly to Imans and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper ;... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1883 - 812 pàgines
...Justinian. Col. Yule concisely summarizes the knowledge of China down to that date among the Romans : " The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country,...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper ; eschewing collisions with their neighbors, and even... | |
| Henry Lansdell - 1893 - 528 pàgines
...Cordier's Bibliotheca Sinica, we learn that the Greeks and Romans regarded the region of the Seres as a vast and populous country, touching on the east...and the limits of the habitable world, and extending westwards nearly to the Himalayas and the confines of Bactriana. And this we now know from other sources... | |
| Edith Jemima Simcox - 1894 - 576 pàgines
...which would have been true of China at almost any other period except that when it was written. lous country, touching on the east the ocean and the limits...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just and frugal temper, eschewing collisions with their neighbours and even... | |
| Samuel Wells Williams - 1897 - 500 pàgines
...Justinian. Col. Yule concisely summarizes the knowledge of China down to that date among the Romans : " The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country,...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper ; eschewing collisions with their neighbors, and even... | |
| Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1898 - 426 pàgines
...whole account of the people here (in Kinsay) might pass for an extended paraphrase of the Latin com* " The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country,...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper; eschewing collisions with their neighbors, and even... | |
| ARCHIBALD R. COLQUHOUN - 1898 - 464 pàgines
...whole account of the people here (in Kinsay) might pass for an extended paraphrase of the Latin com* " The region of the Seres is a vast and populous country,...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper; eschewing collisions with their neighbors, and even... | |
| Archibald Ross Colquhoun - 1898 - 426 pàgines
...here (in Kinsay) might pass for an extended paraphrase of the Latin com* " The region of the Seres 1s a vast and populous country, touching on the east...Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized men, of mild, just, and frugal temper; eschewing collisions with their neighbors, and even... | |
| James Johnston - 1899 - 200 pàgines
...and manifest fables, the result will be something like the following — " The region of the Ceres is a vast and populous country, touching on the east...limits of the habitable world, and extending west to Imaus and the confines of Bactria. The people are civilized, mild, just, and frugal, eschewing collisions... | |
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