Category: History - British
The purity of the divine and original Worship (as with the vulgar in our Celestial Kingdom) is too simple. About 500 or 600 years after our Confutze, in the time of the Romans, there appeared in an obscure province of their Empire a new Sect of devotees, who asserted that they...
The purity of the divine and original Worship (as with the vulgar in our Celestial Kingdom) is too simple. About 500 or 600 years after our Confutze, in the time of the Romans,...
2. CHAPTER II.The Kingdom consists of the following: England with Wales and Scotland, forming one large island; Ireland, separated by a channel of the seas, lying West; and several small grou...
14. CHAPTER XIV.It is the business of a wise man (as our illustrious _Confutzi_ and _Menzi_ say) to seek the _conditions_ of the visible forms of things--whether the things be those which we se...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Until recently the Barbarians had no proper style of Architecture, unless in Temples, Castles, and Ships. The dwellings, even in cities, were as ugly and inconvenient as it is p...
11. CHAPTER XI.In this chapter I shall try to show some of the peculiarities of the opposite extreme of Barbarian life. From ignorant poverty, verging upon crime, crime and vice; we are taken...
3. CHAPTER III.The heir to the Crown, if he be the son of the reigning Ruler, is Prince of Wales--a title bestowed upon his eldest son by an ancient king; and which, at the time, gave the admi...
13. CHAPTER XIII.London is the capital city of the British Empire. This is the style assumed by the English when they speak of their whole power. It is a curiously constructed empire--in some re...
5. CHAPTER V.There are innumerable books; and the conceit of these Barbarians attaches to them as to everything in their _Enlightened World_ (Litz-i-ten). Nothing outside of the Christ-god w...
6. CHAPTER VI.We have ourselves, in our maritime parts, some experience of the English, as traders [Kie-tee]. Something of their moral character is known, not as traders only, but as represen...
9. CHAPTER IX.When the lowest-caste takes a _holiday_, decent people keep away from the place of resort, as they would from pestilence. The coarseness, indecency, and uncleanliness are too re...
7. CHAPTER VII.In our Flowery Kingdom when a man marries _he_ pays to the parents or relatives; but with the Barbarians the woman pays to the man. Women are such costly burdens that men demand...
12. CHAPTER XII.In those parts not disfigured by the smoke vomited out from the huge fire-chimneys of factories, mines, and the like, nor by the nearness of great towns, the country presents a...
4. CHAPTER IV.In our Illustrious and Central Kingdom, from times long before the Barbarians beyond the great Seas existed, or, at any rate, had any name or place in the earliest records, it h...
10. CHAPTER X.I have spoken quite at length of the English Barbarians as _traders_--these form a large portion of the whole. Below these are the lowest caste, workers, beggars, and thieves. T...