Chinese
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the Chinese · China · Chinaman · John Chinaman · the Celestial
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The Chinese people, presented as the foremost example of enduring ancestor worship.
’ Female ancestors in the direct line are now worshipped by the civilised Chinese, but the evidence shows that the posthumous honours paid to women are of later origin than the worship of men.
The Chinese are the great example of a community earnestly devoted to this system of religious belief and observance.
The Chinese, prostrate bodily and mentally before the memorial tablets which contain the souls of his ancestors, little thinks that he is all the while proving to mankind how vast a power unlimited filial obedience, prohibiting change from ancestral institutions, may exert in stopping the advance of civilisation.
Law in a Free State
Group used as a test case for readiness for absolute liberty.
We can force them to co-operate with us by admitting their contention for the sake of argument, and then asking whether the Russians are ready for absolute freedom, and if so, whether the Hindoos are ready, or the Chinese, or the Arabs, or the Hottentots, or the tree-dwarfs?
Of course socialists beg the question as to the propriety of stopping competition by pushing the Chinese on one side, A fair trader contributes to a socialist paper this syllogism.
It is said that Chinese competition lowers the value of the American labourer in the market.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
The Chinese, cited both as an example of the ancient origin of trade and as continuing traders with the East Indies.
Moreover, the Arabians and the Chinese are at the present day still carrying on with the people of the East Indies a trade which has been uninterrupted for several centuries.
They say that trade arose among the Chinese in about this way.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
Referenced as an example of a language and writing system whose characters convey multiple distinct ideas with one word, used analogically to explain confusion over the word corporation.
Though the same word may have been applied to sectional divisions for sustaining civil government, and also to “bodies politick” for altering civil government, it does not confound things so different in their nature, and only proves that our language, participating in some degree of the hieroglyphical defects of the Chinese, has often but one word to convey ideas, extremely distinct.