A Journey Through the Chinese Empire, Volum 1Harper & Brothers, 1856 |
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Pàgina 74 - My dear disciples, why do you not study the Book of Verses ? The Book of Verses is proper for elevating your sentiments and ideas ; it is fitted for forming your judgment by the contemplation of things ; it is good for uniting men in mutual harmony, and for exciting regret without resentment.
Pàgina 153 - ... and especially by her brothers, as a menial, from whom they have a right to demand the lowest and most painful services. The amusements and pleasures of her age are quite unknown to her ; her whole education consists in knowing how to use her needle ; she neither learns to read nor to write ; there exists for her neither school nor house of education ; she is...
Pàgina 67 - As man," continues the imperial logician, " is apt to delude himself concerning his own interests, contests would then be interminable, and the half of the Empire would not suffice to settle the lawsuits of the other half. I desire, therefore, that those who have recourse to the tribunals should be treated...
Pàgina 98 - He never pursues anything with ardour but riches and material enjoyments. God — the soul — a future life — he believes in none of them, or, rather, he never thinks about them at all. If he ever takes up a moral or religious book, it is only by way of amusement — to pass the time away. It is a less serious occupation than smoking a pipe or drinking a cup of tea. If you speak to him of the foundations of faith, of the principles of Christianity, of the importance of salvation, the certainty...
Pàgina 67 - Contests would then be interminable, and the half of the Empire would not suffice to settle the lawsuits of the other half. I desire, therefore, that those who have recourse to the tribunals should be treated without any. pity, and in such manner that they should be disgusted with law, and tremble to appear before the magistrates.
Pàgina 71 - ... amendments from time to time to those who are missing the true intonation. As soon as the pupil thinks he has his lesson perfectly impressed on his memory, he goes up to the master, makes a low bow, presents his book, turns his back, and repeats what he has learnt. This is what they call pey-chou, " turning the back on a book;
Pàgina 139 - ... withdrew, though with a very bad grace, and went to eat his rice elsewhere. Our supper, as may be imagined, was not remarkably gay. The company helped themselves from the dishes right and left, but all in perfect silence ; the chop-sticks seized and let fall often the same morsel before carrying it off. The guests swallowed, as if in mere absence of mind, several little glasses of warm wine ; they glanced at each other out of the corners of their eyes, but said nothing. Every one seemed to be...
Pàgina 58 - Emperor being the Son of Heaven, and consequently, according to the Chinese expression, Father and Mother of the Empire, has a right to the respect, the veneration, the worship even of his children. His authority is absolute; it is he who makes and who abolishes the laws, who grants privileges to Mandarins or degrades them, to whom alone belongs the power over life and death, who is the source of all administrative and judicial authority, who has at his disposal the whole power and revenues of the...
Pàgina 183 - It is impossible to read the Si-yuen without being convinced that the number of attempts against life in this country is very considerable, and especially that suicide is very common. The extreme readiness with which the Chinese are induced to kill themselves, is almost inconceivable ; some mere trifle, a word almost, is sufficient to cause them to hang themselves, or throw themselves to the bottom of a well ; the two favourite modes of suicide. In other countries, if a man wishes to wreak his vengeance...
Pàgina 67 - In this manner the evil will be cut up by the roots ; the good citizens, who may have difficulties among themselves, will settle them like brothers, by referring to the arbitration of some old man, or the mayor of the commune.