The Origin of the Chinese: An Attempt to Trace the Connection of the Chinese with the Western Nations in Their Religion, Superstitions, Arts, Languages, and TraditionsTrübner & Company, 1868 - 78 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agni Ahura Ahura-Mazda ancestors Arians Aryan Avesta barbarians Burm called Canton Cantonese century B.C. CH'I character China Chinese Chinese written language Chow dynasty classic of Changes colour common origin Confucius connected Deity dialect Dictionary earliest earth emperor father fire genii gods Greek Heaites Heaven Hebrew hence hero-gods Hindu History Hwang-ho Hwang-ti idea Indians Indra invented Jupiter Kau-yau KIEN kwan Kwan-lun Ladak li-min Mand manes Mars means Mencius Mongol monosyllabic monotheism moon mountain natural NGAN phonetic planets plough Poetry primitive probably pron race Rigveda root rule sacrifice Samaveda Saturn Shang Shang Dynasty Shangites Shangti shin Shoo-king Siam Siamese speech spirits stars supposed Sze-ma T'ang Tibet Tibetan tien tion Tistrya tradition Ts'in Ts'inites TSUK Venus western wood words worship writing written language Yang-tsze Yau and Shun Yih-king Yu's Zend
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Seite 13 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Seite 76 - It would be better to be without the Book of History than to give entire credit to it. 2. " In the ' Completion of the War,' I select two or three passages only, which I believe.
Seite 35 - Nothing necessitates the admission of different independent beginnings for the material elements of the Turanian, Semitic, and Aryan branches of speech; — nay, it is possible even now to point out radicals which, under various changes and disguises, have been current in these three branches ever since their first separation.
Seite 19 - The process by which fire is obtained from wood is called churning, as it resembles that by which butter in India is separated from milk. The New-Hollanders obtain fire from a similar process. It consists in drilling one piece of araniwood into another by pulling a string tied to it with a jerk with the one hand, while the other is slackened, and so alternately till the wood takes fire. The fire is received on cotton or flax held...
Seite 1 - ... faculty of flying, which is a characteristic feature of birds, all we can do is, first, to compare the structure of birds with that of other animals which are devoid of that faculty, and secondly, to examine the conditions under which the act of flying becomes possible. It is the same with speech. Speech is a specific faculty of man. It distinguishes man from all other creatures...
Seite 19 - It consists in drilling one piece of arani wood into another by pulling a string tied to it with a jerk with the one hand, while the other is slackened, and so alternately till the wood takes fire. The fire is received on cotton or flax held in the hand of an assistant Brahman.
Seite 21 - Sukra, to have made even Indra's face turn all awry while he was drinking it, and by its exhilarating principle to have furnished him with that might without which he could not have subdued the enemies of the gods.
Seite 18 - You who obey my orders, shall be rewarded before (the spirits of) my ancestors ; and you who disobey my orders, shall be put to death before the altar of the spirits of the land, and I will also put to death your children...