A Retrospect of the First Ten Years of the Protestant Mission to China: (now, in Connection with the Malay, Denominated the Ultra-Ganges Missions) Accompanied with Miscellaneous Remarks on the Literature, History, and Mythology of China &cprinted at the Anglo-Chinese Press, 1820 - 376 Seiten |
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A Retrospect of the First Ten Years of the Protestant Mission to China: Now ... William Milne Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Seite 330 - -.-enabling them to adorn the doctrine of GOD our Saviour in all things...
Seite 29 - Most of the forms of mythology, which make any figure in the page of history, now exist in China, except that their indecent parts, and their direct tendency to injure human life, have been cut off. The idolatry of ancient Canaan, of Egypt, of Greece, of Rome, of Chaldea, and of India, are all to be found here, though with some slight variations.
Seite 227 - ... the character, is carefully left. The block being cut, with edged tools of various kinds, the process of printing follows. The block is laid on a table ; and a brush made of hair, being dipped in ink, is lightly drawn over the face. The sheets being already prepared, each one is laid on the block...
Seite 126 - O that at the great day he may prove to have been a brand plucked out of the burning. May God be. glorified in his eternal salvation! " He writes a tolerably good hand. His father was a man of some property, which he lost by the wreck of a junk in the China seas, returning from Batavia.
Seite 3 - Bible, claims the whole world as the sphere of its operations: it knows no other locality: it commands the nations to give up nothing but what is injurious for them to retain; and proposes nothing for their acceptance but what they are miserable without: it casts no slight on any one country, by exalting the virtues and glory of another: it represents all people and nations as on a level in the eyes of God, as equally offenders against him, equally subject to the decisions of his awful justice, and...
Seite 125 - His natural temper is not good. He often disagreed with his brother and other domestics; and I thought it better that he should retire from my service. He however continued, whenever he was within a few miles, to come to worship on the Sabbath day. " He prayed earnestly morning and evening, and read the decalogue as contained in the Catechism. He says that from the decalogue and instruction of friends, he saw his great...
Seite 36 - ... the condemned creeping into the skins of those animals in the form of which they are destined to appear again on earth ; boiling of the wicked in caldrons ; the wheel, or apparatus, by means of which all the operations of the metempsychosis are performed ; horned demons, with...
Seite 2 - ... of them are easily understood, and they are all full of consolation to the truly penitent and upright in heart. The precepts of the Bible are all simple, holy, reasonable, and useful to man in every capacity and in every relation of life; and his dependence on the Supreme Being, his circumstances in the world, the desires of his immortal nature, and the testimony of his conscience, all prove it to be both his duty and his interest to obey them. Its ritual, which is neither complicated, expensive,...
Seite 125 - Till this my twenty-seventh year I have done nothing to answer to the goodness of God, in giving me existence in this world as a human being. I have not recompensed the kindness of my parents, my relations, my friends. Shall I repine? Shall I hope in my own good deeds?