The Chinese Repository, Volume 20

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Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams
proprietors, 1851 - China
 

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Page 40 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 421 - A single operation does not suffice to deprive them of all their tallow ; the steaming and sifting is therefore repeated. The article thus procured becomes a solid mass on falling through the sieve, and to purify it, it is melted and formed into cakes for the press ; these receive their form from bamboo hoops, a foot in diameter and three inches deep, which are laid on the ground over a little straw.
Page 421 - The article thus procured becomes a solid mass on falling through the sieve, and to purify it, it is melted and formed into cakes for the press ; these receive their form from bamboo hoops, a foot in diameter and three inches deep, which are laid on the ground over a little straw. On being filled with the hot liquid, the ends of the straw beneath are drawn up and spread over the top, and when of sufficient consistence, are placed with their rings in the press. This apparatus, which is of the rudest...
Page 421 - The process for pressing the oil, which is carried on at the same time, remains to be noticed; it is contained in the kernel of the nut, the sebaceous matter, which lies between the shell and the husk. having been removed in the manner described. The kernel and the husk covering it are ground between two stones, which are heated to prevent clogging from the sebaceous matter still adhering.
Page 429 - ... of considerable value. Clocks and watches of very antique appearance are often met with, specimens of the original models scarcely to be found in any other country ; some of the latter, by their clumsy figure, remind one of their ancient name
Page 481 - I have had the honor of being a member of this Court, I have uniformly and steadily opposed the encouragement given to the extension of the manufacture of opium; but of late years we have pushed it to the utmost height, and disproportionate prices were given for the article in Malwa. We contracted burdensome treaties with the Eajpoot States, to introduce and extend the cultivation of the poppy.
Page 421 - Nor is the tree prized merely for the stearine and elaine it yields, though these products constitute its chief value : its leaves are employed as a black dye; its wood, being hard and durable, may be easily used for printing-blocks, and various other articles; and, finally, the refuse of the nut is employed as fuel and manure.
Page 427 - The middle of these temples had fairies holding horary characters, one of •which made her appearance every hour. Time was struck by a couple of gods, and it is said they kept it very accurately. In the side temples were representations of the sun and moon, respectively, and from these places genii issued, crossing a bridge to the middle temple, and after ascertaining, as it were, the time of day from the fairies, returning again to their quarters.
Page 487 - Regarding them merely on account of their great antiquity, therefore, (above 3600 years!) independently of their symmetry and style of ornament, they cannot fail to be interesting to all who attach a value to what is ancient; while their inscriptions establish, unquestionably, the fact, that the present Chinese written character is derived from hieroglyphical representations.
Page 427 - Khan, who is depicted in history as an •effeminate prince, and as having the physiognomy of a monkey, was •evidently a man of great mechanical skill, and to the last, when his dominions were slipping from him, and confusion reigned everywhere, he amused himself by making models of vessels, automata, and time-pieces. His chief work was a machine contained in a box seven feet high, and half that in width, on the top of which were three small temples.

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