A String of Chinese Peach-stonesC. H. Kelly, 1895 - 479 עמודים Chinese tales, anecdotes and literary references strung together on a thread of narrative and picturing the village life of central China during the period of the Taiping rebellion, 1849-1867. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 78
עמוד 1
... THOUGHT AUTUMN SORROWS AND THEIR ONLY REMEDY . " Rain torrents have ceased , flood waters subside ; Clouds chased to the westward , behind the hills hide ; The lake one wide mirror , all heaven shining there , The trees autumn tinted ...
... THOUGHT AUTUMN SORROWS AND THEIR ONLY REMEDY . " Rain torrents have ceased , flood waters subside ; Clouds chased to the westward , behind the hills hide ; The lake one wide mirror , all heaven shining there , The trees autumn tinted ...
עמוד 37
... thought . He is an only son , and the kilns are so far off , quite out of the world indeed . The Village School . Meanwhile he must do his best at study . He seems to have powers beyond his years . And so he is found at the village ...
... thought . He is an only son , and the kilns are so far off , quite out of the world indeed . The Village School . Meanwhile he must do his best at study . He seems to have powers beyond his years . And so he is found at the village ...
עמוד 50
... thought of . He was first on the field by some years ; he had a few years of actual precedent . Therefore by most of the tea - shop frequenters he was worshipped as the living abode of the deity Precedent . Added to such principles ...
... thought of . He was first on the field by some years ; he had a few years of actual precedent . Therefore by most of the tea - shop frequenters he was worshipped as the living abode of the deity Precedent . Added to such principles ...
עמוד 51
... thought by Confucians . nowadays ) ; a man who can quote their very words , ideal in meaning , ideal in style , and written in ideally perfect , ancient , and inexplicable characters . He is clothed in the mantle of the sacred sages ...
... thought by Confucians . nowadays ) ; a man who can quote their very words , ideal in meaning , ideal in style , and written in ideally perfect , ancient , and inexplicable characters . He is clothed in the mantle of the sacred sages ...
עמוד 54
... thoughts . But still the art of keeping an- other in something like good humour has to be studied . Every civility toward such a man involves a certain loss of self- respect , but is also a cause for self - gratulation . Nieh has been ...
... thoughts . But still the art of keeping an- other in something like good humour has to be studied . Every civility toward such a man involves a certain loss of self- respect , but is also a cause for self - gratulation . Nieh has been ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
ancient asked boat Book of Odes brother Buddhist called Camilla camp captain cash characters China Chinese classical Confucian Confucius coolie cried daughter demon door dragon dynasty Emperor Empress exclaimed eyes father feast fire foreign Fung fung shui Fung-kiao gate hand Hankow Hanyang harpsichord heard heart heaven heavenly honour Hu Fah Hunan hundred husband idols Imperial Kiukiang lake Lieu live Longhaired look mandarin Mencius Ming Ming dynasty monk morning mother Nieh Shen-seng night Nine Recluses official once opium peach-stones Peh-ya Peng perhaps phrase potteries prince rebels replied rice Sacred scholar seemed Seng-teh shouted smoke soldiers sound spirit Taiping Taiping Rebellion tale Taoist tea-shop temple thought tiger told Tortoise Hill tree Ts'ao Tsaitien village walls wife wine wonder words worship Wuchang yamun Yangtse young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 153 - Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakngs. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature and supplies his incompetencies.
עמוד 227 - Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death?' He was answered, 'While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
עמוד 479 - God's will may be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. Amen.
עמוד 260 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though Wisdom wake, Suspicion sleeps At Wisdom's gate, and to Simplicity Resigns her charge, while Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
עמוד 4 - A mussel was sunning itself by the river bank when a bittern came by and pecked at it. The mussel closed its shell and nipped the bird's beak. Hereupon the bittern said : ' If you don't let me go to-day, if you don't let me go to-morrow, there will be a dead mussel.
עמוד 478 - Forms to be observed when Men wish to forsake their Sins. — They must kneel down in God's presence, and ask him to forgive their sins. They may then...
עמוד 478 - Our Heavenly Father, of his great mercy and unbounded goodness, Spared not his first-born Son, but sent him down into the world To give his life for the redemption of all our transgressions, The knowledge of which coupled with repentance saves the souls of men.20 The hymn was followed by a reading from the Bible, after which their creed was recited.
עמוד 479 - Divine favour, and the Holy Spirit's * assistance to renew their hearts, saying grace at every meal, keeping holy the Sabbath day, and obeying all God's commandments, especially avoiding idolatry. They may then be accounted the children of God, and their souls will go to heaven when they die ; all people throughout the world, whether Chinese or foreigners, male or female, must observe this in order to obtain salvation.
עמוד 227 - Extreme is my decay. For a long time, I have not dreamed, as I was wont to do, that I saw the duke of Chau." 6. The Master said, "Let the will be set on the path of duty. "Let every attainment in what is good be firmly grasped. "Let perfect virtue be accorded with. "Let relaxation and enjoyment be found in the polite arts.
עמוד 90 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. 2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand ; but a fool's heart at His left.