China: With MapSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1882 - 400 עמודים |
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ancient appear boats Book of Rites bride Buddha Buddhist camlet Canton carried ceremonies characters China Chinamen Chinese Chinese poetry Chow Cloth boards coffin colour Confucianism Confucius court death district Dynasty emperor evil examination existence father favour feet fish fortunate four Fuh-he hair Han Dynasty hand haou head Heaven honour hundred Hwang-te imperial Imperial Records K'ang-he K'in king knowledge Kwei lady literary literature live Manchoo mandarins marriage means Mencius ment ming Ming Dynasty ministers month names Nanking nature Nirvâna occasion offer officials palace peacock's feather Peking Peking Gazette possession present day princes province racters rank recognised reign rites rivers rule rulers sacrifices says seal sedan-chair Shang-te shoo side silk sovereign spirits Susian T'ien-tsin tablets taels Taku forts Taou temple throne throughout the empire tion tombs tone tribes tsze women words worship writing yamun
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עמוד 309 - The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue, throughout the empire, *first ordered well their own States. Wishing to order well their States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their...
עמוד 310 - Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole Empire was made tranquil and happy.
עמוד 88 - Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, And a child that's born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.
עמוד 15 - My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also ; and now my son has met the same fate.
עמוד 14 - A host marches in attendance on the ruler, and stores of provisions are consumed. The hungry are deprived of their food, and there is no rest for those who are called to toil. Maledictions are uttered by one to another with eyes askance, and the people proceed to the commission of wickedness. Thus the Imperial ordinances are violated, and the people are oppressed, and the supplies of food and drink flow away like water. The rulers yield themselves to the current, or they urge their way against it;...
עמוד 14 - There is no difference," was the reply. 4. Mencius then said, " In your kitchen there is fat meat ; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and on the wilds there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.
עמוד 264 - ... acknowledges in prayer and by his position that he is inferior to heaven, and to heaven alone. Round him on the pavement are the nine circles of as many heavens, consisting of nine stones, then eighteen, then twenty-seven, and so on in successive multiples of nine till the square of nine, the favourite number of Chinese philosophy, is reached in the outermost circle of eighty-one stones.