China Throughout the AgesHsien Press, 1928 - 508 Seiten |
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Seite 139 - Augustine, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted the masculine.
Seite 51 - Here, as a literary specimen, are some of his best passages. [The theory of fatalism is the great evil of the empire. It is belief in a blind destiny, which has extinguished the faith In Heaven and the Manes, and which has in consequence deprived men of the benedictions of Heaven and the Manes.
Seite 215 - China agreed to a yearly payment of one hundred thousand ounces of silver and two hundred thousand pieces of silk.
Seite 90 - Majestic, from the most distant time, The sun rises and sets. Time passes and men cannot stop it. The four seasons serve them, But do not belong to them. The years flow like water. Everything passes away before my eyes.
Seite 29 - A sorcerer enters first, to drive away mischievous goblins. The prince makes an offering to the protecting Genii of the gate. The people of the house jump as a sign of grief. The prince tells them to dress the corpse. When the funeral toilet is finished, the prince strokes the deceased in the region of the heart. Then, at his invitation, the men stroke it on their side, and afterwards the women on theirs.
Seite 29 - The fiancee's father replies : All is ready... Then the father says to his daughter: Take good care, be very attentive, obey implicitly your spouse's parents... The mother embraces her daughter, saying to her: Be very diligent, try to satisfy your mother-in-law in everything... The fiancé salutes and descends the steps.
Seite 29 - Then the flaneé and fiancée, having each knelt down on a mat, symbolical meats are presented to them, which they taste, after having offered part of them to the Manes; they drink of the same wine, in two cups made from a gourd cut into two halves.
Seite 70 - The Sage does not quarrel; he adapts himself. If the world is water, follow its course. If all are drunk, drink as they do.
Seite 146 - What I could not drink during my life, they will not give me after my death. The ants only have wings in the spring, let us enjoy as much as we can while there is still time.
Seite 209 - Sages, who disregarded his duties.of son and subject. And you allow to be presented to your Majesty a dry bone of that man, a dirty piece of his corpse!..