A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought

... of certain modern improvements in modelling and mounting, contains a mass of — for that day — valuable elementary information. In fact, the French and German taxidermists were then far in advance ... eye and mind to the actual localities in which the various species of animals are found — an advance in art not dreamed of fifty years ago — and also correctly mode...

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... imitation of succeeding princes, a man whose nearest approach to wisdom was mean cunning; and has raised into a legislator, a sanguinary, sordid, and trembling usurper. Henry was a tyrannic husband, ... familiarity with a prelate of that rank and prime minister. But granting that such pregnant parts as More's had leaped the barrier of dignity, and insinuated himse...

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... use in China in various forms – e.g. as a kind of harpoon, and, fitted with a pipe-like gadget at the point, as a ‘singing arrow’ which was used in signalling. Breaking an arrow in half signalled ... Weltanschauung: man as the cardinal being in this world. To man are subordinated and subjected the animals and the plants, even heaven and earth (a way of lookin...

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... speculative and theorizing propensities, creating the immea- surable wealth of Hindu, Chinese and Islamic philosophy, the Cabbala itself and the painstaking investigations of alchemy and similar ... ideas of regions as far apart as America, New Guinea, Indonesia, Western Europe, Central Asia and the Far East, that is to say, of areas in all parts of the world. Let us c...

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... measured in this study, and the separate calculation of risk patterns in urban and rural areas was used as a surrogate analy- sis by socioeconomic status. In conclusion, the basic principles of ... 0.076 in urban areas, and 0.163 in rural areas, indicating a very weak association between couple’s smoking habit. Second, we compared the prevalence of smoking betwe...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... to make use of a full Chinese English dictionary particularly to verify the range of meanings for any particular character. A recommended dictionary is: A Chinese- English Dictionary, ed. Wu Jingrong, ... characters under 214 ‘significs’ (radicals) was used in the dictionary of 1716. Since then it has remained the traditional way of classifying the characters. 7 The t...

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... hypotheses are suggested below: Brand evaluations As mentioned previously, rational and emotional evaluations are made basing on the customer’s perception about rational and emotional brand associations ... is it all about the brand? Of course not. “Today's understanding of brand takes it far beyond the somewhat simplistic view of brand that prevailed a decade ago” (Leis...

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