An historical, geographical, and philosophical view of the Chinese Empire - comprehending a description of the fifteen provinces of China, Chinese Tartary, tributary states, natural history of China, (14740441636)

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Title: An historical, geographical, and philosophical view of the Chinese Empire : comprehending a description of the fifteen provinces of China, Chinese Tartary, tributary states, natural history of China, government, religion, laws, manners and customs, literature, arts, sciences, manufactures, &c. : in two volumes
Year: 1795 (1790s)
Authors: Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829 American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) : London printed, Philadelphia, re-printed for Richard Lee : Dunning, Hyer, and Palmer, printers
Contributing Library: Harvard University
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ich beftows it on them/ The Chinefe endeavour to render ever? putas (hiking as pofliblc. A viceroy, whenever he quitspalace, does it with a pomp truly regal, indeed farfo than any European monarch ; but this fplendor 1 n -thing, when compared Kith that of the emperor wfahe leaves his palaee ton any public occafion, «he goes to (aerifies in the temple of rbe Tim. Thewhole o£ the princes of the blood on thefe occtend, as do all <he principal mandarins and giaithe court, in irdreife of ceremony. Theis wholly t the f the attendant feme idea may be dby he annexed pfat PRIVATE DIVERSIONS, ENTERTAINMENTS CEREMONIES. As the Chinefe employ mod of their time inson their duty as members of fodety, they btfllittle on amufeknents. Naturally a grave people,fcldom affumc an air of gaiety, but in compliance ■•;
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- Or THE CHINESE. $87 , or eftablifbcd cuAom. They, however, have . theatrical pieces, both comic and tragic; but have no public theatre* authorifed by government, their adtors, like thofe of the Tartar nations, are rs, who attend the houfea of thofe who are able them. Dancing, the favourite amufement of nations, is little if at all pra&ifed in Hunting and (hooting, which the titled tyrants of ope wifli to confine exclufivcly to themfelves, is free ry pcrfon in China, and if any one is defirous of ing it alone, he caufes a quantity of game to be (hue in a clofe park. Every farmer is at liberty to pre- the definition of his crops, by killing all thofe als which come to ravage his fields, without bang 1 danger of profecution as a poacher, or fubjeded to fonment and fine for fo doing. Fiflung is considered by the Chinefe rather as an i of commerce and induftry than amufement. In r great (Uhcrics, they ufe nets; but private people a line. They ufe alfo for this purpofc, in certain xsf

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