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Page 344
... Chinese , far from so refined a condition , as other nations have reached , in a period not bearing any proportion For allowing the empire of China to have been founded or settled two thousand years antecedent to the christian era ...
... Chinese , far from so refined a condition , as other nations have reached , in a period not bearing any proportion For allowing the empire of China to have been founded or settled two thousand years antecedent to the christian era ...
Page 345
... that ' even in English , the most copious language known , most of the words to express ideas purely mental , are borrowed from sɔme VOL . V. 2 Y analogy or resemblance subsisting , or imagined to subsist between CHINESE LITERATURE . 345.
... that ' even in English , the most copious language known , most of the words to express ideas purely mental , are borrowed from sɔme VOL . V. 2 Y analogy or resemblance subsisting , or imagined to subsist between CHINESE LITERATURE . 345.
Page 346
... Chinese character was in its primeval state , entire- ly hieroglyphic , is therefore rendered very probable , from the na- ture of the human mind , and the expedients it would instinctive- ly have recourse to , to make known its ...
... Chinese character was in its primeval state , entire- ly hieroglyphic , is therefore rendered very probable , from the na- ture of the human mind , and the expedients it would instinctive- ly have recourse to , to make known its ...
Page 347
... Chinese characters be equally understood by the natives of Japan , Junquin , and Cochin- China ; yet each would give them different names , or sounds that would be wholly unintelligible to one another . When on the present voyage , we ...
... Chinese characters be equally understood by the natives of Japan , Junquin , and Cochin- China ; yet each would give them different names , or sounds that would be wholly unintelligible to one another . When on the present voyage , we ...
Page 348
... Chinese have preserved their language from innovation , and given it an unalterable durability , is to be ascribed , rather to the tyrannical disposition of the govornment , and the inflexibility of their customs , than to a great ...
... Chinese have preserved their language from innovation , and given it an unalterable durability , is to be ascribed , rather to the tyrannical disposition of the govornment , and the inflexibility of their customs , than to a great ...
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