Essays on the Chinese Language

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Presbyterian Mission Press, 1889 - 496 Seiten
 

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Seite 189 - And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.
Seite 33 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
Seite 186 - But to guide nations in the way of truth By saving doctrine, and from error lead To know, and knowing worship God aright...
Seite 181 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Seite 260 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Seite 243 - But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned...
Seite 241 - That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld, and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life...
Seite 140 - Fie, fie, fie," now would she cry; "Tereu, Tereu!" by and by; That to hear her so complain, Scarce I could from tears refrain; For her griefs so lively shown Made me think upon mine own.
Seite 211 - Affections, as joy, and grief, and fear, and anger, with such like, being as it were the sundry fashions and forms of Appetite, can neither rise at the conceit of a thing indifferent, nor yet choose but rise at the sight of some things. Wherefore it is not altogether in our power, whether we will be stirred with affections, or no ; whereas actions which issue from the disposition of the Will are in the power thereof to be performed or stayed. Finally, Appetite is the Will's solicitor, and Will is...
Seite 2 - Levant, to write in characters real, which express neither letters nor words in gross, but things or notions ; insomuch as countries and provinces, which understand not one another's language, can nevertheless read one another's writings, because the characters are accepted more generally than the languages do extend ; and there100 fore they have a vast multitude of characters, as many, I suppose, as radical words.

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