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A Collection Of Chinese Proverbs And Apothegms,
Without salted mey-tse how can we give to a sauce the five relishes . —Meaning that it would be absurd to expect the end without the means . The mey-tse are tart fruits like wild apricots : the Chinese candy them , they pickle and also salt them , on purpose to use them in sauces . By the five relishes is perhaps only meant the entire and complete taste . The Chinese seem to consider the number five as the most complete and perfect number , to which they reduce not only the cardinal virtues , the relative duties , the commandments of Fo , & c . but even the elements , and the noble parts of the human body- ]
Your works above shall follow you : you shall carry off nothing else . —[ A fine saying in the books of Fo . The Spaniards say , Buen hazer fiorence , to do lo al perece : a good work flourishes , every thing else perishes . ] A man may be well mounted though he does not ride the horse Ki ; one may be a good disciple though not equal to Yen-tse . —j \ K"i is a celebrated horse . Yen-tse was the most beloved disciple of
Confucius . ] As the liquor takes the figure of the vessel that contains it , so the subjects imitate the prince . As the stone me , can never become white ; so a head defiled with iniquity will always retain its blackness . [ Me is a kind of black earthwhich they rub on the engraved blocks instead of ink . ]
, A ( passion indulged is a kind of drunkenness : its remedy is —? vanquish thyself . A pear is returned for a peach : you shall not reap what you have sowed . [ Applied when a grateful ' return is not made for a favour received . ]
An Historical Essay On Longevity.
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON LONGEVITY .
^ CONCLUDED FliOM P . 10 . ] WE find also many instances of long life among schoolmasters ; SQ that one mig ht almost believe that continual intercourse with youth may contribute something towards our renovation and support . " But poets and artists , in short all those fortunate mortals whose principal occupation leads them to be conversant with the sports of whole lifein the
fancy and self-created worlds , and whose , properest sense , is an agreeable dream , have a particular claim to a place in the history of longevity . We have already seen to what a great age Anacreon , Sophocles , and Pindar attained . Young , Voltaire , Bodmer , Haller , and Metastasip , all lived to be very old . The most extraordinary instances of longevity are to he found , however , only among those classes of mankind who , amidst bodily labour , and in the open air , lead a simple life , such as farmers , gardners , hunter ' s , soldiers , and sailors . In these situations man , still attains to
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Collection Of Chinese Proverbs And Apothegms,
Without salted mey-tse how can we give to a sauce the five relishes . —Meaning that it would be absurd to expect the end without the means . The mey-tse are tart fruits like wild apricots : the Chinese candy them , they pickle and also salt them , on purpose to use them in sauces . By the five relishes is perhaps only meant the entire and complete taste . The Chinese seem to consider the number five as the most complete and perfect number , to which they reduce not only the cardinal virtues , the relative duties , the commandments of Fo , & c . but even the elements , and the noble parts of the human body- ]
Your works above shall follow you : you shall carry off nothing else . —[ A fine saying in the books of Fo . The Spaniards say , Buen hazer fiorence , to do lo al perece : a good work flourishes , every thing else perishes . ] A man may be well mounted though he does not ride the horse Ki ; one may be a good disciple though not equal to Yen-tse . —j \ K"i is a celebrated horse . Yen-tse was the most beloved disciple of
Confucius . ] As the liquor takes the figure of the vessel that contains it , so the subjects imitate the prince . As the stone me , can never become white ; so a head defiled with iniquity will always retain its blackness . [ Me is a kind of black earthwhich they rub on the engraved blocks instead of ink . ]
, A ( passion indulged is a kind of drunkenness : its remedy is —? vanquish thyself . A pear is returned for a peach : you shall not reap what you have sowed . [ Applied when a grateful ' return is not made for a favour received . ]
An Historical Essay On Longevity.
AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON LONGEVITY .
^ CONCLUDED FliOM P . 10 . ] WE find also many instances of long life among schoolmasters ; SQ that one mig ht almost believe that continual intercourse with youth may contribute something towards our renovation and support . " But poets and artists , in short all those fortunate mortals whose principal occupation leads them to be conversant with the sports of whole lifein the
fancy and self-created worlds , and whose , properest sense , is an agreeable dream , have a particular claim to a place in the history of longevity . We have already seen to what a great age Anacreon , Sophocles , and Pindar attained . Young , Voltaire , Bodmer , Haller , and Metastasip , all lived to be very old . The most extraordinary instances of longevity are to he found , however , only among those classes of mankind who , amidst bodily labour , and in the open air , lead a simple life , such as farmers , gardners , hunter ' s , soldiers , and sailors . In these situations man , still attains to