A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect |
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bamboo called candareens Canton cchí ch'ut chán chau ché chéung chí chik Chinese ching chóng chuk chung dorsal fán fát fong fung hau² hók íú kái káp kín kók kóm kóng kún kung kwai kwan kwat kwó léung lók mái ming múi mún nái ngá ngán ngau ngó ngoi Notes and Explanations pák pán pát pín ping pít pún sám shá shai shán shang shap shat shau shí shik shing shíú shó shui sín síú sk'í sming sngan st'au sün swai syá syan syau t'au taels tái tán tang tím tín ting ts'z tsak tsau tsik tsing tsò tsoi tsók tsuk tsun tsung túi tung wák yéuk yéung ying yung yung²
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Page 368 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page v - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Page v - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Show'rs on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 85 - My own generation is one grade ; my father's is one; my grandfather's is one ; that of my grandfather's father is one ; and that of my grandfather's grandfather is one ; thus above me are four grades. My son's generation is one grade ; my grandson's is one ; that of my grandson's son is one; and that of my grandson's grandson is one ; thus below me are four grades of relations : including myself in the estimate, there are in all nine grades. These are brethren ; and although each grade be» All the...
Page 368 - ... 106. Swan-pan or reckoning board, in universal use among the Chinese. It consists of an oblong frame of wood, with a bar running lengthwise, forming two compartments ; through this bar, at right angles, are usually placed seventeen (but sometimes more) small pins, having on each seven balls ; five on one side, and two on the other side of the bar. Any ball in the larger compartment, being placed against the bar, is called unity ; and on the left of this they increase, and on the right they decrease...
Page 314 - The model from which a junk was first derived, is said by the Chinese to have been a monstrous fish ; the fancied resemblance is kept up in the eyes, the mouth and teeth, painted on the bow, a frisking tail in the high stern,
Page 14 - Let the thumb be placed with the back towards the body, facing outwards ; let the fore and middle fingers, with the back turned outwards, be brought near it, facing the body ; thus, holding fast the pencil let the fourth and little fingers, placed close together, extreme into another : in short, the last man fit to command the respect of Chinese statesmen,!
Page 347 - ... be played with great effect upon the kin, as I have learned from experiment. One of the greatest difficulties, which we encounter in the study of this instrument, is the complex notation of the Chinese written music, and the frequent blunders and omissions which such a complexity is apt to produce. Each note is a cluster of characters: one denotes the string, another the stud, a third informs you in what manner the fingers of the right hand are to be used, a fourth does the same in reference...
Page 587 - Court," is intrusted with the " care of manners and customs, the investigation of all public offices within and without the capital, the discrimination between the good and bad performance of their business, and between the depravity and uprightness of the officers employed in them...
Page xv - Rfimusat, who says that generally, " In every Chinese sentence, in which nothing is understood, the elements of which it is composed are arranged in the following order: the subject, the verb, the complement direct, and the complement indirect. " Modifying expressions precede those to which they belong : thus, the adjective is placed before the substantive, subject, or complement ; the substantive governed before the verb that governs it ; the adverb before the verb ; the...