Christianity in China, Tartary and Thibet: From the apostleship of St. Thomas to the discovery of the Cape of Good HopeLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857 |
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الصفحة 10 - No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
الصفحة 6 - Teque adeo decus hoc aevi, te consule, inibit, Pollio, et incipient magni procedere menses, te duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia nostri, irrita perpetua solvent formidine terras, ille deum vitam accipiet, divisque videbit 15 permixtos heroas, et ipse videbitur illis, pacatumque reget patriis virtutibus orbem.
الصفحة 10 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began. The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed, Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
الصفحة 178 - As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
الصفحة 170 - The new emperor answered by this formula, which contains the whole spirit of the despotic governments of the East : " If you desire that I should be your khan, are you resolved to obey me in everything ; to come when I shall call you, to go where I shall send you, and to put to death all those I shall command you to kill?" After they had answered "Yes," he said to them, " Henceforth my simple word shall serve me as a sword.
الصفحة 6 - Ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas ; Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna : Jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto.
الصفحة 11 - Annals ' narrates the circumstance : — 'In the twenty-fourth year of Tchao-Wang, of the dynasty of the Tcheou, on the eighth day of the fourth moon, a light appeared in the south-west which illuminated the king's palace. The monarch struck by its splendour interrogated the sages, who were skilled in foretelling future events. They then showed him books in which it was written that this prodigy signified the appearance of a great saint in the West, whose religion was to be introduced into this...
الصفحة 350 - ... through the confessions of a certain individual, came to know my innocence and the malice of my adversaries; and he banished them with their wives and children. In this mission I abode alone and without any associate for eleven years; but it is now going on for two years since I was joined by Friar Arnold, a German of the province of Cologne. I have built a church in the city of Cambaliech, in which the king has his chief residence. This I completed six years ago; and I have built a belltower...
الصفحة 73 - Yezdbouzid is Persian, and at the epoch when the monument was discovered it would have been impossible to invent it, as there existed no work where it could have been found. Indeed, I do not think that, even since then, there has ever been any one published in which it could have been met with. " It is a very celebrated name among the Armenians, and comes to them from a martyr, a Persian by birth, and of the royal race, who perished towards the middle of the seventh century, and rendered his name...
الصفحة 106 - ... own kings, are nevertheless the slaves and tributaries of our Excellency. " In another province of our States, near the torrid zone, there are worms, called in our language Salamanders, which can only live in the fire. They envelop themselves in a kind of tissue, like the insects that produce silk, and the substance is wrought with care by the ladies of our palace, and thus we have stuffs and garments of it for the use of our Excellency. These garments can only be purified by being placed in...