China: Its Costume, Arts, Manufactures, &c, Volum 3J.J. Stockdale, 1812 |
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Side 127 - This puppet-show, we were told, prow perly belongs to the ladies' apartments, but was sent out, as " a particular compliment, to entertain us : one of the perform" ances was exhibited with great applause from our conductors, " and I understand it is a favourite piece at court.
Side 77 - The three years of his mourning having elapsed, he returned to his fqrmer residence, but did not therefore forget his filial affection. . His mother had ever expressed great apprehension of thunder, and, when it thundered, always requested her son not to leave her. Therefore, as soon as he heard a storm coming on, he hastened to his mother's grave, saying softly to her, as though she could hear — / am here, mother!
Side 127 - ... also entertained with a Chinese puppet-show, which differs but little from an English one. There are a distressed princess confined in a castle, and a knight-errant, who, after fighting wild beasts and dragons, sets her at liberty and marries her, weddingfeasts, jousts, and tournaments. Besides these, there was also a comic drama, in which some personages not unlike Punch and Judy, Bandemeer, and Scaramouch, performed capital parts. This puppet-show, we were told, properly belonged to the ladies'...
Side 70 - ... afford the reader as complete a view of the subject, as the narrow limits to which he is confined will admit of. If it be true, as Barrow asserts, that with the Chinese filial respect is not so much a moral feeling as a precept, which in course of time has acquired all the force of a positive law, and that filial piety exists rather in the maxims of the government than in the hearts of the subjects, still it wears an appearof a virtue that demands our admiration. All the institutions of the empire...
Side 83 - Innumerable anecdotes of this kind might be quoted fl%m the works of the Chinese and the European missionaries. The books published in China on this subject, for upwards of two thousand years, would form an immense library : but, it is not merely by collecting such facts and holding them up to the admiration of their contemporaries...
Side 124 - ... boy must have been severely injured from its weight. On the same occasion a man fastened three small sticks to each of his boots. He took six China plates, about eighteen inches in diameter, made them turn round separately at the extremity of a small ivory rod, and then put them, without interrupting their motion, on the points of the six sticks, where they continued turning. This done, the performer took two small sticks in his left hand, on...
Side 43 - ... transplanted either into a jar or into the open ground, and it produces fruit the following year.