Inhaltsangabe
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.1786 Excerpt: ... Englishman cannot dine without laying se"itom the four quarters of the world under vSw contribution; and after the materials are furnished, they must yet undergo many elaborate processes before they are adapted to a Christian palate. So that the homely business of eating has encreased the number of the sciences, and is provided with its train of learned Professors. if not more luxuriously than the people of Europe. SeeDu Halde, Vol.11, p. 237. Section IX. SECTION IX. Uvity »s T T is not beneath the dignity of the dress. I -. gravest Moralist, so far to survey the exterior of life, as it reflects light upon the Jiuman character. We will proceed then from their tables to their ward-robes. And as the matter of dress depends chiefly on custom, and custom on innumerable associations, of which many perhaps (could we trace them), would be found rather vain than criminals we ought to be reserved in our censures, and Feady to allow very different modes to be alike conr sistent with nature and decorum And yet in the present case, there are some circumstances which strike me unfavourably. In our eastern world there is at least a consistency and distinction in this article,. article, which I find wanting in this Section country. We wore the same forms of "V dress with our remote ancestors until the late revolution J; so that had they returned to us after a thousand years in. the garb of their own times, they would have been still in fashion; which it seems would hardly be the case in this ifland % This happened in 1644, when China was subdued by the Tartars, who introduced their own mode of dress, What is called fajhim is a thing hardly known in China, which (observes our author,) is a sign of good order, and the uniformity of the government, even in the most trif...
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