The Chinese Repository, Volume 7Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams proprietors, 1839 - China |
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... possessions meet , in 50 ° north latitude . We adopt the meridian of Malaya merely because it marks the eastern verge of British colonization , and is perhaps the point where the tide of her ascendency in Asia , hardly yet at the full ...
... possessions meet , in 50 ° north latitude . We adopt the meridian of Malaya merely because it marks the eastern verge of British colonization , and is perhaps the point where the tide of her ascendency in Asia , hardly yet at the full ...
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... that no correct information is possessed by the American executive . We have little hesitation in predicting that an examination of it , will show that an extensive blockade 1838 . 15 Destinies of Ultra - Malayan Asia .
... that no correct information is possessed by the American executive . We have little hesitation in predicting that an examination of it , will show that an extensive blockade 1838 . 15 Destinies of Ultra - Malayan Asia .
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... possessed of healing properties , and how far they were applicable in medicine . There have also been several inquirers into the arcana of nature , whose object resembled that of the old alchymists , in searching after the philosopher's ...
... possessed of healing properties , and how far they were applicable in medicine . There have also been several inquirers into the arcana of nature , whose object resembled that of the old alchymists , in searching after the philosopher's ...
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... possessed of energy and enterprise like that of Budha when he existed as a hare , who would yet undertake to dip the ocean dry , but now you appear like a woman frightened by ghosts . ' The priest then rose to take his leave , but the ...
... possessed of energy and enterprise like that of Budha when he existed as a hare , who would yet undertake to dip the ocean dry , but now you appear like a woman frightened by ghosts . ' The priest then rose to take his leave , but the ...
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... possessed , and used . The great benevolent associations of the west will of course be the chief directors of these means ; but if , at any time , a doubt arise , whether a certain object , in itself desirable a school or a hospital for ...
... possessed , and used . The great benevolent associations of the west will of course be the chief directors of these means ; but if , at any time , a doubt arise , whether a certain object , in itself desirable a school or a hospital for ...
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American animal appear arrival benevolent boats Bocca Tigris British Bruni called Canton captain character CHARLES ELLIOT chief superintendent China Chinese Chinese language CHINESE REPOSITORY choo Christian Cochinchina cohong colony commands commerce commissioner committee communication course court Dayaks death disease Dutch duty edict emperor empire English evil factories foreign genii give given governor Han dynasty hand heaven hong merchants honor Hungwoo Illanun immediately imperial intercourse islands Japan Japanese king language larvæ laws Macao Malay Manila means ment missionary Mongols nations native nature never notice object officers opium pangerans patient Peking port possession present priests province punishment reader received regard residents respect sent ship Society soon Spanish spirit sultan taels Taiko Taou things tion trade traffic Tsaou tumor vessel Whampoa whilst whole words writing
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Page 198 - If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day ; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable ; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words...
Page 66 - And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted ? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
Page 83 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty; and base things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen; yea, and things that are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 4 - In my own time," says Seneca, "there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows, tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building, shorthand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves ; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul. Non est, inquam, instrumentorum...
Page 4 - Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, Utility and Progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary. It dealt largely in theories of moral perfection, which were so sublime that they never could be more than theories ; in attempts to solve insoluble enigmas ; in exhortations to the attainment of unattainable frames of mind.
Page 252 - It has the head of a camel, the horns of a deer, eyes of a rabbit, ears of a cow, neck of a snake, belly of a frog, scales of a carp. claws of a hawk, and palm of a tiger.
Page 60 - My mother ! when I learn'd that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou conscious of the tears I shed ? Hover'd thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss, Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Page 164 - Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St. James that ' he who offended in one...
Page 83 - ... subjected to a court of inquiry. Lastly, that no regard be paid to the purchase and use of opium on the part of the people generally.
Page 638 - I, Charles Elliot, chief superintendent of the trade of British subjects in China...