Pictures of the Chinese: Drawn by ThemselvesJ. Murray, 1860 - 219 pages "Each chapter focuses on a different trade or Chinese pursuit, included are the diviner, the Budhist priest, the wine carrier, the blind seer, the collector of paper scarps, the neddle maker, the tailor, the opium smoker, the match maker, etc. Each chapter is accompanied by a full page line "pen and ink etching" by a "a native artist". The etchings are faithful representations of the Northern Chinese." |
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Page 154 - their night-soil with one-third of its weight of fat marl, make it into cakes, and dry it by exposure to the sun. In this state it is free from any disagreeable smell, and forms a common article of commerce
Page 3 - liveth, and conquereth for evermore ; she is the strength, kingdom, power, and majesty of all ages. Blessed be the Grod of- truth.
Page 160 - case of the consulter. No language, perhaps, possesses such facilities for diviners and their art as the Chinese; and the words selected are easily made to evolve, under the manipulation of a skilful artist, some mystical meaning of oracular indefiniteness. Some faint notion of this method of divination may be gathered from remarking the
Page 160 - to their monasteries. The state religion does indeed ridicule all such superstitions, but it is powerless to keep the people from practising them, nor do any of the influential men of the country see any sufficient reason to interfere. It is not (say they) a question of good government or good morals, it
Page 160 - concerns a man's own mental convictions, and we may safely leave these to take their own course. A very favourite expression of theirs is, " If you believe, these things have reality; if you believe not, they have none." By which is meant, that every person must be guided by his own. convictions;
Page 160 - letters forming a name or sentence. For instance, the name Horatio Nelson becomes, by a happy alliteration, Honor est a Nilo. Again, Vernon becomes Eenown, and Waller, Laurel. Or in the remarkable instance of Pilate's question, Quid est veritas, which by transposition gives, Est
Page 160 - a livelihood by an occupation of which we should think every day's events would prove the fallacy. No one lifts up his voice against it. The Confucianist thinks it may be necessary for the rude, uneducated mind. Both the Buddhist and the
Page 160 - the present day by the Jews in their phylacteries. These slips of card-board, amounting altogether to several hundreds, are shaken together in a box; and the consulting party—moved, perhaps, with solicitude to know the result of an intended expedition, or
Page 199 - is a gift largely bestowed upon the Chinaman; it is, indeed, one of his most marked characteristics—but it is ingenuity of that peculiar kind which works with very slender materials.