Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volumes 36-38Kelly & Walsh., 1905 Catalogue of the Library of the Society in vol. 26, 30. |
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Page 24 - ... All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver; and on every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief officer deputed by the...
Page 24 - He makes them take of the bark of a certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts are full of them. What they take is a certain fine white bast or skin which lies between the wood of the tree and the thick outer bark, and this they make into something resembling sheets of paper, but black.
Page 174 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 94 - To deny the possibility, nay, .actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament: and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.
Page 95 - The civil law punishes with death, not only the sorcerers themselves, but also those who consult them; imitating in the former the express law of GOD—' Thou shall not suffer a witch to live.
Page 120 - Japan shall have withdrawn her troops, all the roads that have been repaired and all the houses that have been built, etc., shall be retained for her use ; at the same time consenting to pay the sum of four hundred thousand taels by way of recompense ; and it is agreed that Japan shall withdraw all her troops, and China shall pay the whole amount without fail, by the 20th day of December, the seventh year of Meiji, with Japan, or on the 22nd day of the eleventh moon, the thirteenth year of Tung Chi,...
Page 92 - ... it appears that God hath appointed (for a supernatural sign of the monstrous impiety of witches) that the water shall refuse to receive them in her bosom that have shaken off them the sacred water of baptism, and wilfully refused the benefit thereof...
Page 230 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) — To the island valley of Avilion ; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns, And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 27 - Surgeon Major Louis Livingston Seaman, USA, of New York and he gave to the Museum of St. John's College at Shanghai, the specimen which is here reproduced. "The note is printed on mulberry-bark paper, which now is of a dark slate colour, the 'something resembling sheets of paper, but black' of Marco Polo's description. The sheet of paper is 13.5 by 8.75 inches and the design on the face is 12.6 by 8.3 inches. The border, 1.4...
Page 119 - With regard to the question of Formosa, Mr. Wade, HBM's Minister, having spoken on the subject to the two parties, they, the said Commissioners of the two nations, have arranged for settlement thus: — "I.— China agrees that she shall pay the sum of one- hundred thousand taels, for relief to the families of the subjects of Japan who were murdered. " II. — China wishes that, after Japan shall have withdrawn her troops, all the roads that have been repaired and all the houses that have been...