A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London : with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire (1842)
Langdon, William B · London : Printed for the proprietor, and to be obtained only at the Chinese Collection · leaf 24
of the empire, from the earliest dawn of intellect, till itspowers are extinguished by death. The Book of Sacred Instructions,whose sixteen discourses are read to the people twice every moon, incul-cates the doctrine again and again. In our general conduct, it says, not to be orderly is to fail in… … 17 sincere is to fail in filial duty ; in arms and in war, not to be brave, is tofail in filial duty. In fact, obedience to parents, filial piety, and duty to superiors, areplaced at the head of all moral excellence. Davis says, that fathers have virtually the power of life and death overtheir…
Art objects, Chinese
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