Travels of the Russian Mission Through Mongolia to China: And Residence in Pekin, in the Years L820-l821, Volume 1 |
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Page 363 - Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Page 355 - The dress of the women differs but little from that of the Egyptians, except in the face veil, which is generally white. There is an independent bearing about the Yambu' men, strange in the East; they are proud without insolence, and they look manly without blustering.
Page 367 - Pekin, instead of the Roman Catholic missionaries. The Chinese have long been desirous of driving away the latter, who maintain their ground only by virtue of an ordinance of the emperor Kanghi.
Page 357 - ... but, on account of the general superstition, it must mark in the almanac the lucky and unlucky days, the best days for being married, for undertaking a journey, for making their dresses, for buying, or building, for presenting petitions to the emperor, and for many other cases of ordinary life. By this...
Page 310 - ... gravel. The foundations consist of large unhewn stones ; the rest of the wall is of brick ; its height is twenty-six feet, and its breadth at the top, fourteen. Towers, in which there are many cast iron cannon, are placed at about an hundred paces from each other; the great tower is decayed from age : the gate is much damaged, as well as the adjacent wall. No care is now taken to keep it in repair.
Page 36 - Fokien, the dry, dirty, and damaged leaves and stalks of the tea are thrown aside, they are then mixed with a glutinous substance, pressed into moulds, and dried in ovens. These blocks are called by the Russians, on account of their shape, brick tea.
Page 365 - They endeavoured to oblige them to trample upon the Cross, and to abjure their errors; they who refused were threatened with death. At Pekin many thousand persons were discovered, who had embraced the Christian religion, even among the members of the imperial family and Mandarins.
Page 1 - The priest who now resides there, and the three others who are expected, shall live in the kouan above mentioned. These three priests shall be attached to the same church, and receive the same provisions as the present priest. The Russians shall be permitted to worship their God according to the rites of their religion. Four young students...
Page 2 - Russian mission, composed of six ecclesiastical and four lay members, fixed its abode at Peking ; the first do duty alternately in the convent of Candlemas, and the church of the Assumption, situated in the same quarter of the city, and originally inhabited by the Russians, whom the Chinese government caused to be removed hither in 1685, after the destruction of Albazin, a Russian fortress which had been built on the banks of the Amour. The lay members are young men, who are obliged to study the...
Page 358 - ... the lucky and unlucky days, the best days for being married, for undertaking a journey, for making their dresses, for buying, or building, for presenting petitions to the emperor, and for many other cases of ordinary life. By this means, the government keeps the people within the limits of humble obedience; it is for this reason that the emperors of China established the academy of astronomy, but we must not expect to find men really acquainted with that science.