 Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by man are not to be found in the whole world. Their country is very rich in corn, in wine, in gold and silver, in silk, and in every kind of produce tending to the support of mankind.  China - Pàgina 18per Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1913 - 322 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Isaac Newton Lewis - 1888 - 296 pàgines
...stagnant land, the rich Cathay of the Middle Ages. In 1247, some one writes of this strange land : "The country is very rich in corn, in wine, in gold and silver, in silk, and every kind of produce for the support of mankind. The sea lies between it and India. These Cathayans... | |
 | Edith Jemima Simcox - 1894 - 576 pàgines
...character, as he has already observed). '• Their betters as craftsmen, in every art practised by man, are not to be found in the whole world. Their country is very rich in corn, in wine, gold, silver, silk, and in every kind of produce that tends to the support of mankind." 1 A few years... | |
 | Edith Jemima Simcox - 1894 - 568 pàgines
...character, as he has already observed). " Their betters as craftsmen, in every art practised by man, are not to be found in the whole world. Their country is very rich m corn, in wine, gold, silver, silk, and in every kind of produce that tends to the support of mankind."... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1899 - 758 pàgines
...in the face. They have a peculiar language. Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by man are not to be found in the whole world. Their country...kind of produce tending to the support of mankind." And by another of these Franciscan friars, William of Rubruk, in 1253, a yet more graphic account is... | |
 | John William Robertson Scott - 1900 - 270 pàgines
...Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by man are not to be found in the whole world. Theii country is very rich in corn, in wine, in gold and...kind of produce tending to the support of mankind. Friar Rubruqius is equally impressed. Those Cathayans (he writes) are first-rate artists of every kind,... | |
 | Albert Lee - 1906 - 400 pàgines
...and to be beardless. From what he heard, their country was " very rich in corn, in wine, in gold, in silver, in silk, and in every kind of produce tending to the support of mankind." When William Ruysbroek, or Rubruquis, who was a Flemish friar, went on a journey to Karakorum, as an... | |
 | 1910 - 1056 pàgines
...in the lace. They have a peculiar language. Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by man are not to be found in the whole world. Their country...kind of produce tending to the support of mankind." The notice of Rubruk, shrewder and more graphic, runs thus: " Farther on is Great Cathay, which I take... | |
 | 1910 - 1036 pàgines
...¡n the face. They have a peculiar language. Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by man are not to be found in the whole world. Their country...kind of produce tending to the support of mankind." The notice of Rubruk, shrewder and more graphic, runs thus: " Farther on is Great Cathay, which I take... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1032 pàgines
...peculiar language. Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by там are not to be found ¡n the whole world. Their country is very rich in corn, in wine, in gold and silver, in silk, and m every kind of produce tending to the support of mankind." The notice of Rubruk, shrewder and more... | |
 | John Rickards Mozley - 1916 - 436 pàgines
...in the face. They have a peculiar language. Their betters as craftsmen in every art practised by man are not to be found in the whole world. Their country...kind of produce tending to the support of mankind. And here is Rubruquis (p. 28) : Those Cathayans are little fellows, speaking much through the nose,... | |
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