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Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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during a semi-revolution, discharge it into the trough prepared for its reception.Such wheels prevail extensively in the flat district of the Melon Islands, which is inter-sected by the branches of the Kan-keang just before their influx into the Poyang lake.There the coup dceil takes in a hundred wheels at a time, each capable of raising threehundred tons of water every four and twenty hours. PROPITIATORY OFFERINGS FOR DEPARTED RELATIVES. That so the shadows be not unappeased,Nor we disturbed with prodigies on earth. Titos Andronicus. It is probable that the most accomplished Europeans who have hitherto travelled inChina, made themselves but imperfectly masters of the rites and ceremonies of thepeople. The length of years during which idolatry has reigned here is alone an expla-nation of the multitude of absurdities that have successively supervened—absurditiesso palpable, that foreigners, especially Christians, have treated them with contempt. * Vide Vol. I. p. 65. Vol. III. p. 31.
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,^ I t I; %a k ~^ nN? i PROPITIATORY OFFERINGS FOR DEPARTED RELATIVES. 19 Hence it is, that when access is permitted to the iialls, and temples, and public placesof China, we meet at every step with some new object of surprise. Yet in their customsand manners we uniformly trace some identity with other ancient kingdoms—someanalogy so striking, that we are insensibly led into the conclusion, that all the inhabit-ants of this round world must inevitably be members of the great first family. In the extraordinary confusion of ceremonies relative to the shades of the departed,we trace the sacrificial oblations which the Greeks deemed necessary, to open the gatesof Orcus to a living adventurer; and there appears but little difference between theChinese offerings for the repose of dead mens souls, and the Latin rite of inhumingthe material part, that the immaterial might be allowed to cross the river Styx. Twasfor this boon the mariner supplicated Archytas:— Nor thou, my friend, refuse m

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