Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumi 8-9Kelly & Walsh., 1874 Catalogue of the Library of the Society in vol. 26, 30. |
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Pagina 32 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Pagina 27 - God, the immortality of the soul, and a future state of rewards and punishments have been esteemed useful engines of government.
Pagina 149 - ... que l'on vienne porter plainte, et nous ne manquerons pas de faire justice. « Tout peuple se laisse facilement entraîner par les exemples de vertu ; pour nous, en parlant au peuple, nous n'avons en vue que la vertu.
Pagina 57 - The belief prevailing through the lower culture that the diseases which vex mankind are brought by individual personal spirits, is one which has produced striking examples of mythic development. Thus in Burma the Karen lives in terror of the mad ' la,' the epileptic ' la,' and the rest of the seven evil demons who go about seeking his life ; and it is with a fancy not many degrees removed from this early stage of thought that the Persian sees in bodily shape the apparition of Al, the scarlet fever...
Pagina 63 - Animism takes in several doctrines which so forcibly conduce to personification, that savages and barbarians, apparently without an effort, can give consistent individual life to phenomena that our utmost stretch of fancy only avails to personify in conscious metaphor. An idea of pervading life and will in nature far outside modern limits, a belief in personal souls animating even what we call inanimate bodies, a theory of transmigration of souls as well in life as after death, a sense of crowds...
Pagina 175 - Whether the Indians can so prepare that stupefying * herb, Datura, that they make it lie several days, months, years, according as they will have it, in a man's body without doing him any hurt, and at the end kill him without missing half an hour's time...
Pagina xxii - A committee of ordinary members shall thereupon be appointed, in conjunction with the Council, to report on the proposed Amendments to the General Meeting next ensuing, when a decision may be taken on vote of two-thirds of the members present.
Pagina 193 - List of the Vertebrated Animals now or lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London, 1872 Ditto.
Pagina 171 - Personne ne violera la sépulture des Français et des volontaires annamites... encore enterrés dans l'intérieur de la citadelle de Hanoï. « Le gouvernement annamite concédera un terrain sur le bord du fleuve pour construire une habitation au Résident français et aux soldats de son escorte; ce terrain sera près du lieu où, après la conclusion du traité, on permettra aux commerçants français de s'établir « Le nommé Dupuis, ainsi que les Français et les Chinois qui l'accompagnent,...
Pagina 76 - Although these people have men's forms," observes a Chinese writer in the peculiar antithetical style common to their literary productions, " they have not men's natures. To govern them is impossible ; to exterminate them not to be thought of; and so nothing can be done with them. The only thing left is to establish troops with cannon at all the passes through which they issue on their raids, and so overawe them, by military display, from coming out of their fastnesses. The savage tracks lie only...