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Page 143 - BG ; and things that are equal to the same are equal to one another ; therefore the straight line AL is equal to BC.
Page 268 - The cup that my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it ? " And what is thus true of an individual Christian, must also be true of a body of Christians, associated for the purpose of promoting any one of those objects which they believe it to be the purpose of God to accomplish. This...
Page 12 - In the first case it is lexigraphic, in the second syllabic, and in the third alphabetical or elementary. 5. That the lexigraphic system of the Chinese cannot be applied to a polysyllabic language, having inflections and grammatical forms ; and that there is no example of its being so applied, unless partially or occasionally, or as a special, elliptical, and enigmatical mode of communication, limited in its uses; but not as a general system of writing, intended for common use. ' 6. That it may be...
Page 108 - The emperor said,' Let him go, then; but be cautious.' He was engaged nine years without accomplishing his task, and eventually atoned for the failure by his death. Yu, his son, was next employed, who perfected the great work of removing the flood, and restoring order to the empire. The following dialogue, on the subject of his labours, occurred between Yu and his sovereign. The emperor says, 'Approach the imperial presence, you have abundant...
Page 167 - After interment the tablet is brought back, and sacrifices of pigs roasted whole, three or four different kinds of animal food, fruits and pastry are offered with accompanying prostrations. Instead of seven days, a period of seven weeks is observed by some rich families, who also defer interment many years. Rooms of paper supplied with furniture and domestics are burnt and passed into the invisible state for the use of the deceased. In more barbarous ages, slaves, attendants and domestic animals...
Page 69 - ... of the objects which were most frequently to be mentioned in their respective sciences. But no effort, however determined and persevering, had been able to discover any alphabet, which could fairly be said to render the inscription, in general, at all like what was required to make its language intelligible Egyptian ; although most of the proper names seemed to exhibit a tolerable agreement with the forms of letters indicated by Mr. Akerblad ; a coincidence, indeed, which might be found in the...
Page 384 - ... stations. In the year 1806, the London Missionary Society determined to commence a mission to China. The hostility of the Chinese Government, however, being a great impediment to Missionary operations, the object at which the founders of the Protestant Mission to China aimed, was the preparation of works that should facilitate the future cultivation of Chinese philology by Europeans, and secure a standard of appeal on theology for Chinese in their own language. In the beginning of the year 1807,...
Page 34 - As sight is quicker than hearing, so ideas reaching the mind by the eye, are quicker, more striking and vivid, than those which reach the mind by the slower progress of sound.
Page 83 - O, seems to have been adopted by the .Latin astrologers from their masters in Egypt ; since it is not very probable that both should have employed a point in the centre of the circle, without some communication with each other ; the circle alone having been mentioned by some of the Greek authors, who say, that it was the symbol of the sun. The deity RE or...
Page 34 - ... to convey ideas to the mind by the eye, it answers all the purposes of a written medium, as well as the alphabetic system of the West, and perhaps in some respects better ;" that,