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Identifier: chinainseriesofv3to4allo (find matches)
Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
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, generosity to the mind. They practise fishingless as an amusement than a trade, employing in its pursuit an endless number of snares ;such as the varnished plank facing the moon; the flat and the purse nets, dulls andgins of various kinds, three-pronged spears, the bow and arrow, and the diving cormo-rant. Hunting is held in little estimation, the former being at liberty to save his cropsby destroying all those animals that are deemed destructive to vegetation. Whilefishing, fowling, and hunting, are thus excluded from their national amusements,—theatres, kite-flying, cricket, and quail-fighting, lot-drawing, mora-playing, cards anddice, prevail universally.
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I I \^ S 1 1 ■I ■I ENTRANCF TO THE CHIN-CHEW RIVER. 43 The picturesque spot on which Mr. Allom has spread a bamboo mat, for the idleHaimenese to indulge their morbid taste, is in the solemn locality of the city of thedead,—the ancient tombs hewn in the solid rock, records which the very gamblers,who desecrate the scene, hold in the utmost veneration. The encouragement of this demoralizing vice by the Chinese, creates a distinctionpeculiarly remarkable, between that nation and the ancient kingdoms of Europe.In the latter, so far back as we have historic information of the fact, gamblers andspendthrifts were not only held in utter detestation, but punished also by public marksof degradation and contempt. Seneca-calls the fruits of gaming, the baits, not theboons of fortune; another wise man pronounces the catastrophe of such a life to besorrow, shame, and poverty. By an edict of the emperor Adrian, gamblers weredeclared to be prodigal fools, deserving of public reprobation, and ex

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