. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . most virtuous, of human Institutors. His face, while Sinico-Mongol, possesses the massive lineaments of a great man. Another form of Chinaman is beheld in the historian Sse-ma-Thsian (Fig. 331), who, born B. c. 145, composed the grand history of the Empire, in 130 books. The work of Pauthier is illustrated by an infinitude of Chinese likenesses of all ages; and it is so very accessible in form an
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . most virtuous, of human Institutors. His face, while Sinico-Mongol, possesses the massive lineaments of a great man. Another form of Chinaman is beheld in the historian Sse-ma-Thsian (Fig. 331), who, born B. c. 145, composed the grand history of the Empire, in 130 books. The work of Pauthier is illustrated by an infinitude of Chinese likenesses of all ages; and it is so very accessible in form and price, that we refer our readers to the original for proofs that, with the exception of the pig-tail introduced by the Tartars, the Chinese have not altered in the 4000 years for which we possess their records. The subjoined (Figs. 332-335) are authentic Chinese portraits543 of the ancient foreign people at the four extremities, or four cardinal points, of the Empire: — Fig. 332 — The men of Tai-ping (at the east) are humane, 333 — The men of Tun-joung (at the south) are sage, , 334 » The men of Tai-moung (at the west) are faithful, sincere—Indian Fig.
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