This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ...facred foil. Thus the fiamefe, and the ja-panefe; every where, out of their own country, they are untimely planted fhrubs. What the indian folitary thinks of his god, the fiamefe of his emperor, we do not think: what to us appear aftivity and freedom of mind, manly honour and female beauty, in their eyes are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ...facred foil. Thus the fiamefe, and the ja-panefe; every where, out of their own country, they are untimely planted fhrubs. What the indian folitary thinks of his god, the fiamefe of his emperor, we do not think: what to us appear aftivity and freedom of mind, manly honour and female beauty, in their eyes are far othcrwife. The confinement of the indian women is to them by no means iniupportable. The empty pomp of a mandarin would be to any other an infipid farce. It is the fame with all the cuftoms of diverfified man, nay with all that appears on our Earth. If our fpecies be dcftined to approach, in the eternal path of an afymptote, a point of perfection, which it does not know, and which, with all the labour of a Tantalus, it can never touch; you chinefe and japanefe, you lamas and bramins, purfue this pilgrimage in a tolerably quiet corner of the veflel. You trouble not your-lelves about the unattainable point, and remain as you were thoufands of years ago. 7. It is confolatory to the inveftigator of man, to obferve, that Nature has in no organization forgotten, with all the evils fhe has distributed among the human fpecies, the balfam, that at leaft mitigates their wounds. The oppreflive load of afiatic defpotifm exifts only in nations, that are willing to bear it; that is, are lefs fenfible of it's crufhing weight. The hindoo, when, finking under the fevereft famine, he perceives his emaciated body followed by the dog, that will foon make it his prey, awaits his doom with refignation: he props himfelf tip, that he may die ereft, while the patiently expefting dog ftares him in the pale, deathlike face: of fuch a refignation we have no idea, yet it frequently reciprocates with the moft violent gufts of paffion. This, however, with the climate, ...
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