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China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary (1812)

Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph), Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792, Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774 · London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ... · leaf 129

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of their relatives. The priests of Fo, like those of the sectof Lao-Kiun, have contrived to plungeand to keep the people in endless super-stition. Such is the sacrifice representedin the annexed Plate—a Tartar woman isabout to adore a small altar, on which aretwo lighted tapers, burning, in a kind… … ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 91 A BONZE WHO HAS MADE A VOW TOGO A CERTAIN NUMBER OF MILES ONALL-FOURS. 1 here are no postures, however uneasy,no sufferings, however exquisite, towhich the bonzes will not devote them-selves to excite the charity of passers-by. China abounds with them as muchas India.…

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