The New Englander, Volumes 19-20A.H. Maltby, 1861 - Criticism |
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... established by the better knowledge since ob- tained . Its author's special object was to describe the wealth , the institutions , the manners and the customs , of the Chinese empire , and the power and grandeur of its sovereign , and ...
... established by the better knowledge since ob- tained . Its author's special object was to describe the wealth , the institutions , the manners and the customs , of the Chinese empire , and the power and grandeur of its sovereign , and ...
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... establishing an understanding between Christians and Mongols . One tie of common interest united them : both alike were the foes of the Mohammedan sultans of Egypt , Syria , and Asia Minor 14 [ Jan. , China and the West .
... establishing an understanding between Christians and Mongols . One tie of common interest united them : both alike were the foes of the Mohammedan sultans of Egypt , Syria , and Asia Minor 14 [ Jan. , China and the West .
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... established under Vasco de Gama on the western coast of the peninsula of India ; and in 1517 a Portuguese squadron , tracing backward the route of Marco Polo , entered the port of Canton . This was the commencement of the modern era of ...
... established under Vasco de Gama on the western coast of the peninsula of India ; and in 1517 a Portuguese squadron , tracing backward the route of Marco Polo , entered the port of Canton . This was the commencement of the modern era of ...
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... like foresight elsewhere are apparent , in the overthrow of native institutions , and the establish- ment of European supremacy , in the fairest portions of both the Old and the New worlds . We can hardly 20 [ Jan. , China and the West .
... like foresight elsewhere are apparent , in the overthrow of native institutions , and the establish- ment of European supremacy , in the fairest portions of both the Old and the New worlds . We can hardly 20 [ Jan. , China and the West .
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... establish a mission in China ; but he died in 1552 , upon the borders of the empire , before he had succeeded in overcoming the difficulties thrown in his way , more by his own countrymen than by the Chinese . The Jesuit Ricci was the ...
... establish a mission in China ; but he died in 1552 , upon the borders of the empire , before he had succeeded in overcoming the difficulties thrown in his way , more by his own countrymen than by the Chinese . The Jesuit Ricci was the ...
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Page 144 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold...
Page 731 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 582 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 536 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 156 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 597 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Page 597 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 862 - And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil : and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life...
Page 583 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves ; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female...
Page 100 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.