China: The Country and Its People

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D. Estes, 1901 - 477 pàgines

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Pàgina 352 - I will assemble a mighty host, and, invading the country of the great Ming, I will fill with the hoar-frost from my sword the whole sky over the four hundred provinces.
Pàgina 401 - Sons shall be born to him ; They will be put to sleep on couches ; They will be clothed in robes ; They will have sceptres to play with ; Their cry will be loud. They will be (hereafter) resplendent with red knee-covers, The (future) king, the princes of the land. Daughters shall be born to him ; They will...
Pàgina 74 - A huge sea of verdure, with crossing and intersecting promontories of massive and tufted groves, was tenanted by numberless flocks and herds, which seemed to wander unrestrained and unbounded through the rich pastures. The Thames, here turreted with villas and there garlanded with forests, moved on slowly and placidly, like the mighty monarch of the scene, to whom all its other beauties were but accessories, and bore on his bosom an hundred barks and skiffs, whose white sails and gaily fluttering...
Pàgina 288 - Shan-si, without houses, without clothing, without fire to dress their victuals, and subsisting on the spoils of the chase, eked out with roots and insects.
Pàgina 213 - Are six kinds of grain on which men subsist. Mutual affection of father and son, concord of man and wife ; The older brother's kindness, the younger one's respect ; Order between seniors and juniors, friendship among associates ; On the prince's part regard, on the minister's true loyalty ; — These ten moral duties are ever binding among men...
Pàgina 72 - Chersonnesus) terminated eastward, though he appears to give the names a special application to what we call Burma and Pegu. But Ptolemy, from the nature of his work, which consisted in drawing such maps as he could, and then tabulating the positions from those maps, as if he possessed most accurate data for all, necessarily defined things far beyond what his real materials justified. If we look to the author of the
Pàgina 245 - Sz'chuen," says the Chinese proverb. " It grows more grain in one year than it can consume in ten," says another native authority, addicted, I fear, to exaggeration.
Pàgina 348 - CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THE PERSON OF THE GREAT KAAN. THE personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you. He is of a good stature, neither tall nor short, but of a middle height. He has a becoming amount of flesh, and is very shapely in all his limbs. His complexion is white and red, the eyes black and fine,1 the nose well formed and well set on.
Pàgina 328 - ... emperors of the Manchu dynasty. But great as is the reputation Genghis has acquired it is probably short of his merits. He is remembered as a relentless and irresistible conqueror, a human scourge ; but he was much more. He was one of the greatest instruments of destiny, one of the most remarkable moulders of the fate of nations to be met with in the history of the world. His name still overshadows Asia with its fame and the tribute of our admiration cannot be denied.
Pàgina 71 - Land,' applied in ancient India to Indo-Chinese regions. Of course, where there is no accurate knowledge, the application of terms must be vague. It would be difficult to define where Ptolemy's Chryse...

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