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History of the ceramic art. A descriptive and philosophical study of the pottery of all ages and all nations (1877)

Jacquemart, Albert, 1808-1875, Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Catenacci, H, Jacquemart, Jules-Ferdinand, 1837-1880 · New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 41

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mnipotentcreator. The Chinese religion is therefore nothingbut an extravagant pantheism which recognisesand invokes the gods of thunder, rain, wind, and clouds; protectingspirits of seeds, trees, and flowers; eight immortals ; three stewards andfive emperors of heaven, independent of the ching or… … VASE ORNAMENTED WITHTHE TWO PRINCIPLES ANDTHE EIGHT DIAGRAMS. CHINA. 25 tseu, and of the fabulous legends spread about his birth. The father ofthe philosopher was only a poor countryman, who remained single untilthe age of seventy; he married at last a woman of forty, who conceivedunder the…

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