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The CKjbftete . By J . F . Davis , Esq , F . R . S ., &c , late Ms Mnjetrtt ' f Chief Superintenfant in China . 2 i > o / . s . ( 7 . Knight . London . 1 B 56 ;
An Historiccd and pescriptive Account of China . By Hugh Kftnrinhr , F . R . S . E , ; John { Crawford , Esq . ; Peter Gordon , Esq . ; Captain Thomas Lynn ; William Wallace , F . R . S . E . ; and Gilbert Burnett , Esq . ; 3 vois . Oliver and Bot / d . Edinburgh . ' 185 ft
In the great mutations of the world , as chronicled from a ' period so remote , that to our imaginations its solemn and m&fefflal twilight may well appear to hang over the infancy of * imi < E ? ' ; though , indeed , it might have been but the shadow of fifis first grey hairs ; the mind is not less deeply impressed by the vast progress of some lands and seas , some narions , and some stars , than by the extreme slowness , or comparative irumobility of others . If , the rapidity of far-extending power induces exultation or terror , the apathy of power , on a scaleof equal magnitude , occasions awe . In the former , the heart hopes and fe&rs for the result ; in the'latter , it either feels religious wonder at the " poise of things , " or sickens at the apparent
annihilation of hope . In this atyte of almost sublime immobility slfihcta the Celestial Empire * . Calm , bright , and passive as a thick cluster of ¦ stars , or rather like the " Milky Way / ' the contem plation of Itself seems an all-sufKcing beatitude . It does- not appear amenable to ordinary human laws , hut rather
to a divine physical necessity . A thousand years have done nothing for it . If the nation be left lo itsrlf , us it desire * to be * toft , tlMMmamin of year * Inuum * will find it just the same . It * curious , ugly , toy-like , swarthy , : ind painted populations , come
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INVESTED WITH JUDICIAL WIGS , ( Somewhere in the neighbourhood of Linco ' n ' s - Inn . ) I ^ t > ! what is I ^ i \ v ? I mea n Eternal Law , By wfii 6 h aVonc great Mun should rule his fellow ? . llfol ' ptii ' chjiient-iiunsyt , where i » l . uk , Old Time rrtukvp ye ^ Jow , A * twere i ^ clf-jauiidiced with its meanings raw : Hh «^ , Equity i Not tlwt who-e windings flaw Lrflhtge fortunes , wlieve i ' ee'd gownsineii meet to bfllow , / iad uiiripe reasons veil with glosses mellow ; Bu ^ tr that whose precedents from ( iod we draw , Or Ka ^ u r ? , yvhich . hath God for precedent : i Wna ^ B Juftlice ? What is Truth ? What ' s Innocent > ; Wfiat 6 u ilt , thiit iiffhtly fuHs ' on punishment ? Wiiiil Odu ) ^ ' . thnt are mdee < l a sacrament 1 v ^ * Y ^ f < K > \ h > 1 know ;—and yet ye know as well Aft many ft goiemir , bench-thron'j Oracle ! ¦ - ; . ¦¦¦• ¦ _ " . ? W , ~
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HISTORIES OF CHINA .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/17/
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