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In the end it will be found that by every river and stream and tiny brook over the whole earth grows the invincible Tree of Life, whose roots are deep in the human heart, and whose leaves are for the healing of the Nations. G. Lowes Dickinson, Civilizations of India, China, and Japan, p.43. See also Eugene Simon, La Cité Chinoise, passim.
Also The Notions of the Chinese concerning God and Spirits, 1852. The best account of the old State Religion is that of J. H. Plath, Die Religion und der Cultus der alten Chinesen, 1862. Réville, La Religion chinoise . The third volume of his History. R. K. Douglas, Confucianism and Taoism, 1876. De Groot, in De la Saussaye. De Groot, The Religious System of China, vols. i.-iv., 1892-1901.
At ten o'clock the yacht was anchored. Pickersgill took his leave of the honourable company and went in his boat with his men; and Lord B was again in possession of his vessel, although he had not ship's company. Maddox recovered his usual tone; and the cook flourished his knife, swearing that he should like to see the smuggler who would again order him to dress cutlets a l'ombre Chinoise.
Her fair hair was drawn back 'a la Chinoise' from a white forehead resembling that of a German Madonna; it was one of those foreheads, slightly and delicately curved, which phrenologists tell us indicate reflection and enthusiasm. But Giselle, without thanking Jacqueline for the chocolate, exclaimed at once: "Mon Dieu! What has been the matter with you?"
These remarks are necessary to explain the incidents of the little imbroglio which is the subject of this study, and the picture, softened as it is, of the tone then dominant in Paris drawing-rooms. "Turn your eyes a little towards the pedestal supporting that candelabrum do you see a young lady with her hair drawn back a la Chinoise!
Her fair hair was drawn back 'a la Chinoise' from a white forehead resembling that of a German Madonna; it was one of those foreheads, slightly and delicately curved, which phrenologists tell us indicate reflection and enthusiasm. But Giselle, without thanking Jacqueline for the chocolate, exclaimed at once: "Mon Dieu! What has been the matter with you?"
The women's shape was also very protuberant, their complexion dark, their hair long, and combed up a la Chinoise. Unfortunately it was impossible for me, with all my mimicry, to obtain the information I wished for, so I was obliged to content myself with visiting the cabin, which was a real hut, having but the ground-floor.
A. Bastian, Die Völker des östlichen Asien, ii. G. Schlegel, Uranographie Chinoise (The Hague and Leyden, 1875), pp. 139-143; C. Puini, "Il fuoco nella tradizione degli antichi Cinesi," Giornale della Societ
His hair is long, his beard thin, his colour brass-like, yet sometimes inclining to European whiteness; his eye expanded and vivacious, somewhat á la Chinoise; nose large; and, true to the Malay race, his cheek bones are high and prominent.
Not a single one of the orchestral conductors in New York has dared consider performing his "Sinfonietta," to say nothing of the early and comparatively accessible "Marche funèbre" and "A la chinoise." Of the Philharmonic Society, of course, one expects nothing.
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