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cháng characters cháu ché chih Chinese Chinese language ching choh chú chuh chung Chung Yung denotes Examples fáh fán fáng fung hán háu heaven hiá hing hioh hwá hwán hwoh jin chi k'au kán kiá kiáu kien kioh kiú kiun kung kwán kwei lái láu liáu ming nái nán nang ngái noun particle páu phrases pien ping puh chí puh teh pwán racters rh puh sán sang says sháng shau shen shí shih shin mo shing Shú King shwoh shwui siáng siáu sié signifies siú style tái tán táng táu tien ts'z tsái tsang tsáu tseh tsien tsin tsing tsiú tsoh tung verb wán wáng yáng yáu yé puh yueh yuen yung
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Page 166 - If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behind the back ? Inscription in the Celestial Influence Temple 387 Seek and you will find ; neglect and you will lose.
Page 157 - He who looks at the sun is dazzled, he who hears the thunder is deafened. (Not come too near the powerful.) He desires to hide his tracks, and walks on the snow. He seeks the ass, and lo ! he sits upon him. An illiterate person is like a dry inkstone. Speak not of others, but convict yourself. A man who has a tongue may go to Rome. A man is not always known by...
Page vii - To the missionaries, who have just arrived, nothing seeina more desirable than to get possession of a dictionary, as if there were no other way of learning the language. Accordingly, they .spend their time in carefully copying out the various lexicons they meet with—time which would be more advantageously devoted to reading and committing to memory the Four Classics. They will certainly have no need of a dictionary in order to acquire a knowledge of the Notitia Lingua: Sinicae. which I here take...
Page 160 - A faithful subject dies without fear, and a virtuous woman meets danger with delight.
Page 160 - A fair wind raises no storm. The error of a thought the regret of a whole life. A little impatience subverts great undertakings. Vast chasms can be filled ; the heart of man is never satisfied. Diseases may be healed, but fate cannot be remedied. The body may be healed, but the mind is incurable. Instruction pervades the heart of the wise, but cannot penetrate the ears of a fool. A man may be deprived of life, but a good name cannot be taken from him. . The extreme of joy is the beginning of sorrow.
Page 244 - ... Roentgen ray, and a recovery may be confidently expected in a very large majority of them — in fact, I am almost tempted to say in all. To say that recovery is to be expected does not mean to me that it may be predicted to the patient. I do not think I ever definitely promised a cure of anything. It is better to promise little and perform much, than to promise much and perform little. Recoveries are so very many in this category, the patient recovering without scarring, having a lower lip that...
Page 228 - Quid enim tarn commune, quam spiritus vivis, terra mortuis, mare fluctuantibus, litus ejectis, " For what is more common than the air to the living, the earth to the dead, the sea to navigators, the shore to those cast up out of the deep," &c.; a passage in reference to which, after he had delivered it at six-and-twenty, with the greatest applause from his audience, he observed, at a more advanced period of life, that his style had fermented in the course of time, and grown clear...