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An historical essay; endeavoring a probability that the language of the empire of China is the primitive language - Softcover
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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. 1669 Excerpt: ...given accordingly to the Court. And hence, the Emperours wife" comes generally to be of the meanest of the people not her extract, but beauty being respected. And it is a Maxime with, their Iiferfi,that to deprive a father of his child, is to take away a beam from the Sun, the source from the Fountain, the member from the body, and the branch from the tree. Thus, for fatherly affection and filial piety, Cbhts may give example to all Nations of the World. The union' is reciprocal, the Parents indulge their children, and f!ae children' esteem no. time more unfortunate, than that fame hour, which gives bel'-ginning to the fatal period of their Parents fives. In their Marriages they teem to have much Analogy with the Hebrtm. tor as in the Law. of Muses, Levit. 18. Ilxse were-prohibited to marry within certain degrees of confanguinity; Co, by the Laws of their Forefathers, our Chinoii ivere not to wed any of the fame name, which to this day they observe: Again, as the Chinois j mfm have been accustomed to have two forts of wives, RfiMJa a matrimonial ly wedded wife, and a Concubine, cv.p«r.i. bothof them accounted lawful, so, the HtbnnstP,1'. had two sorts of wives, a wife married with nur-jHto-tial ceremonies, and a Concubine, both of them m,(.cm'a reputed lawful. As the wife of These was as Mistress, and the Concubine as an hand-maid or servant; so, the Concubine of Those was in subjection to the true wife, and as a servant upon several occasions served her. Also the children by both wives were held legitimate jn either Nation. As likewise when the Concubine had brought forth a son, the wife might, if she pleased send her away, as Sarah did Havar, Gen. 2i. v v. ic. But in China, where all these rituals arc still observed, the Child stays behind, ackn...
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