 | Women - 1822 - 634 pages
...pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render deeds of mercy." Chinete Women, — The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever...at the feet of the beings whom they persecute. When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her v>rist, the cord of which... | |
 | 1826 - 240 pages
...nul book of the Institution deduces the invention from King- Richurd the First. CHINESE WOMEN. — The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever...at the feet of the beings whom they persecute When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the cord of which is... | |
 | 206 pages
...ire snftabti' communications trwi the Reticules, Portfolios, and Secretaires of our jemate friends. The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever...at the feet of the beings whom they persecute. When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread found her wrist, thfcord of te tilth... | |
 | 1823 - 494 pages
...he took the liberty of preferring the Moon of Naples to the Sun of England. . . CHINESE WOMEN. — The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever...at the feet of the beings whom they persecute. When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the card of which is... | |
 | Flowers - 1829 - 340 pages
...there is a single member of this House that does not know what corruption is '.'' CHINESE WOMEN. — The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever at the feet of the beings whom they persecu£e. When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a siUn-n thread round her urut, the... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
...even to my life, is hers I love ; but the secret of my friend is not JEALOUSY. — Those idolators of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever at the feet of the beings whom they persecute. When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the cord of which is... | |
 | 1849 - 750 pages
...can you know better than the doctor?" CHINESE WOMEN. — The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, ore for ever at the feet of the beings whom they persecute. When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the end of which is... | |
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The idolaters of beauty, the Chinese, are for ever at the feet of the beings whom they persecute When any of their wives are indisposed, they fasten a silken thread round her wrist, the... 