Excerpt from On the True Meaning of the Word Shin: As Exhibited in the Quotations Adduced Under That Word in the Chinese Imperial Thesaurus A couplet composed by g Lew-yen, on the subject of balancing a pole on the head, runs thus Before the gallery were a hundred actors, all striving to exhibit sdme thing new; but the long pole feat was if}; A all? Was so wonderful that it bordered on the marvellous. Here the meaning of the phrase under consideration is fixed by its being used in connection with the word it}? Wonderful. ...
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Excerpt from On the True Meaning of the Word Shin: As Exhibited in the Quotations Adduced Under That Word in the Chinese Imperial Thesaurus A couplet composed by g Lew-yen, on the subject of balancing a pole on the head, runs thus Before the gallery were a hundred actors, all striving to exhibit sdme thing new; but the long pole feat was if}; A all? Was so wonderful that it bordered on the marvellous. Here the meaning of the phrase under consideration is fixed by its being used in connection with the word it}? Wonderful. A couplet from the writings of the famous poet 5 Le-t'hae-pih, is then introduced Having spread out the white paper, he commented on the Reason Classic, when his pen traced such subtile thoughts, that they appeared A m wonderful and related to the mysterious. Here again the combination fixes the sense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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