The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, Volum 1John Murray, 1875 |
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Pàgina xxi
... Chinese work , without reference to this inscription , as Yao - săn - wăh , and is in reality only a Chinese transcript of the Persian word for Sunday , ' Yak - shambah . ' Mr. Wylie verified this from the mouth of a Peking Mahomedan ...
... Chinese work , without reference to this inscription , as Yao - săn - wăh , and is in reality only a Chinese transcript of the Persian word for Sunday , ' Yak - shambah . ' Mr. Wylie verified this from the mouth of a Peking Mahomedan ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... Chinese . XII . HOW THE GREAT KAAN MAINTAINS TWELVE THOUSAND HORSE , WHICH KESHICAN 354 361 A GUARD OF ARE CALLED 366 NOTE . - The term Quescican . XIII . THE FASHION OF THE GREAT KAAN'S TABLE AT HIS HIGH FEASTS .. 368 NOTES . - 1 ...
... Chinese . XII . HOW THE GREAT KAAN MAINTAINS TWELVE THOUSAND HORSE , WHICH KESHICAN 354 361 A GUARD OF ARE CALLED 366 NOTE . - The term Quescican . XIII . THE FASHION OF THE GREAT KAAN'S TABLE AT HIS HIGH FEASTS .. 368 NOTES . - 1 ...
Pàgina xxxiv
... Chinese Year . 2. " Beaten Gold . " 3. Textual . Festal changes of costume . XV . OF THE GREAT FESTIVAL WHICH THE ... Chinese . 5. Marco's presence and upright conduct commemorated in the Chinese Annals . The Kaan's prejudice against ...
... Chinese Year . 2. " Beaten Gold . " 3. Textual . Festal changes of costume . XV . OF THE GREAT FESTIVAL WHICH THE ... Chinese . 5. Marco's presence and upright conduct commemorated in the Chinese Annals . The Kaan's prejudice against ...
Pàgina xxxv
... Chinese Public Granaries . XXXII . - OF THE CHARITY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE POOR 431 NOTE . - Buddhist influence , and Chinese charities . XXXIII .- [ CONCERNING THE ASTROLOGERS IN THE CITY OF CAMBALUC ] .... .. 432 NOTES . - 1 . The word ...
... Chinese Public Granaries . XXXII . - OF THE CHARITY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE POOR 431 NOTE . - Buddhist influence , and Chinese charities . XXXIII .- [ CONCERNING THE ASTROLOGERS IN THE CITY OF CAMBALUC ] .... .. 432 NOTES . - 1 . The word ...
Pàgina xl
... China . Borrowed from Dr. Rennie's Peking and the Pekingese . 297. A PAVILION at Yuen Min Yuen , to illustrate the probable style of Kublai Kaan's Summer Palace . Borrowed from Michie's Siberian Overland Route . 309. CHINESE CONJURING ...
... China . Borrowed from Dr. Rennie's Peking and the Pekingese . 297. A PAVILION at Yuen Min Yuen , to illustrate the probable style of Kublai Kaan's Summer Palace . Borrowed from Michie's Siberian Overland Route . 309. CHINESE CONJURING ...
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Pàgina 268 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, io Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pàgina 168 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Pàgina 210 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Pàgina 324 - ... as it is.] As regards the size of this (new) city you must know that it has a compass of 24 miles, for each side of it hath a length of 6 miles, and it is four-square.
Pàgina 214 - Go and wait upon your Lord in the other world ! " For they do in sooth believe that all such as they slay in this manner do go to serve their Lord in the other world. They do the same too with horses ; for when the Emperor dies, they kill all his best horses, in order that he may have the use of them in the other world, as they believe.
Pàgina 188 - And you must know that in the same mountain there is a vein of the substance from which Salamander is made. For the real truth is that the Salamander is no beast, as they allege in our part of the world, but is a substance found in the earth ; and I will tell you about it.
Pàgina 284 - ... They produced a chain of fifty cubits in length, and in my presence threw one end of it towards the sky, where it remained as if fastened to something in the air. A dog was then brought forward, and being placed at the lower end of the chain, immediately ran up, and reaching the other end, immediately disappeared in the air.
Pàgina 324 - My brother shal be warisshed hastily; For I am siker that ther be sciences By whiche men make diverse apparences Swiche as thise subtile tregetoures pleye; For ofte at feestes have I wel herd seye That tregetours withinne an halle large Have maad come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun.
Pàgina 188 - But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.