Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Contury, Том 6J. Murray, 1839 |
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... regard to the population of the empire , " says Voltaire , " there are in China , by the most accurate computation , one hundred and thirty millions of inhabitants , and of these not less than sixty millions of men capable of bearing ...
... regard to the population of the empire , " says Voltaire , " there are in China , by the most accurate computation , one hundred and thirty millions of inhabitants , and of these not less than sixty millions of men capable of bearing ...
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... regard to the state of the sciences . " The prodigious antiquity of the Chinese em- pire , " says M. de Voltaire , " is authenticated beyond a doubt by astronomical observations , par- ticularly by 6 [ BOOK VI . UNIVERSAL HISTORY .
... regard to the state of the sciences . " The prodigious antiquity of the Chinese em- pire , " says M. de Voltaire , " is authenticated beyond a doubt by astronomical observations , par- ticularly by 6 [ BOOK VI . UNIVERSAL HISTORY .
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... regard to the cause of this singularity . The city of Balk in Bactriana ( now Bucharia ) is situated in the thirty - sixth degree of north latitude . The sciences began to be cultivated in this city by the Greeks , who , having obtained ...
... regard to the cause of this singularity . The city of Balk in Bactriana ( now Bucharia ) is situated in the thirty - sixth degree of north latitude . The sciences began to be cultivated in this city by the Greeks , who , having obtained ...
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... regard him as entitled to the same implicit obedience that a parent is entitled to exact from his children . The mandarins , or great officers of state , are the sub- stitutes of the emperor , whose care it is to enforce this obedience ...
... regard him as entitled to the same implicit obedience that a parent is entitled to exact from his children . The mandarins , or great officers of state , are the sub- stitutes of the emperor , whose care it is to enforce this obedience ...
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... regards this empire ; as authentic , at least , as can be obtained from the accounts of those Jesuit missionaries , who are not without reason suspected of very great exaggerations . The morality of the Chinese has been much the subject ...
... regards this empire ; as authentic , at least , as can be obtained from the accounts of those Jesuit missionaries , who are not without reason suspected of very great exaggerations . The morality of the Chinese has been much the subject ...
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