The World Displayed; Or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations: In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several Vain Editors and Translators are Expunged, Every Relation is Made Concise and Plain, and the Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are Clearly and Distinctly Noted. Illustrated and Embellished with Variety of Maps and Prints by the Best Hands..J. Newbery, 1760 |
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Стр. 90 - His fubje&s, if they may be fo called, treat him with fulfome adulation. When they fpeak or write to him they call him their god, (or in their language Kiack,) and in his letters to foreign Princes, he...
Стр. 95 - ... hanging on their left arm, a little drum in the left hand, and a little ftick in the right, and when they come to the people's doors they beat three ftrokes with the ftick on the drum, and if none come to anfwer, they beat again, and fo on to the third time, and then if none anfwer, they proceed to the next houfe without fpeaking a word ; but they are feldom fent away without an alms of rice, pulfe, fruits, or roots, which is their only food, and what they receive more than they have prefent...
Стр. 164 - The grandees of the court, the princes of the blood, nay his own brothers bow to the ground, not only when he is prefent, but even before his throne...
Стр. 5 - I always lodged. On the fame fide of the city, by the corner of a mountain, are the ruins of an ancient caftle, and at fome diftance from it a convent of Dervifes, near which are two deep holes in the ground. The mouth of one of them is four feet and a half round, and it is of an unfathomable depth.
Стр. 84 - ... things will be ufeful to him in the other world. Barbarity accompanies fuperftition in this funeral folemnity. At the king's death, the woman whom he has loved beft, and the principal officers of his houfhold, poifon themfelves, that they may have the glory of being interred with him, and of ferving him in a future ftate. if a private perfon, all his friends and relations muft affift at his funeral; and every one muft throw into the grave the bracelets and other ornaments he wears. THE accounts...
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Стр. 129 - From this apartment we went into another, where a mandarin treated us with tea, and prefented ns, from the emperor, a fum worth about a hundred piftoles. This prefent might feem but inconfiderable from fo great a prince ; but in China it is a very extraordinary one, where it is a maxim with the great to take as much, and give as little, as they can. On the other hand, he loaded us with honour, and ordered one of his officers to wait on us to his houfe. Pekin...
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