. China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary. orking on amore valuable material, and making ahigher charge, they take more pains withit; their piercer, instead of being iron,like that of our stall gentry, has adiamond point; extremely fine brass wireis passed through the holes, and thevessel, for use, is as good as 7i! CHINA, ITS COSTUJIE, A CHINESE YOUTH ALIGHTING FROMHIS CARRIAGE TO SALUTE A FRIENDOF HIS FATHER. However accurate may be Mr. Barrowssupp
. China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary. orking on amore valuable material, and making ahigher charge, they take more pains withit; their piercer, instead of being iron,like that of our stall gentry, has adiamond point; extremely fine brass wireis passed through the holes, and thevessel, for use, is as good as 7i! CHINA, ITS COSTUJIE, A CHINESE YOUTH ALIGHTING FROMHIS CARRIAGE TO SALUTE A FRIENDOF HIS FATHER. However accurate may be Mr. Barrowssupposition, that, among the Chinese, fihalrespect is less a moral sentiment than aprecept, which, in a succession of time,has acquired all the effect of a positivelaw—however it may be said that filialpiety exists rather in the maxims of thegovernment than in the hearts of thesubjects, so estimable a virtue is still notthe less worthy of encomium. The accompanying Print shews theextent to which the Chinese carry theirrespect for the authors of their days;not only do they acquit themselves withpunctuality of the duties which are im-posed on them by the laws, and by cus- m t=5. ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 75 toms no less sacred; but whatever isclear to the parents is respected by thechildren. A Chinese regards his fatherwith a degree of veneration, and alightsfrom his carriage to pay his respects tohim. All the constitutions of the empirehave a tendency to increase paternalpower, and to augment filial father has the right of life and deathover the beings which emanate from hisloins. Some have conceived themselvesjustified, by the silence of the law on thesubject, to expose after their birth, thosewhom they could not afford to bring up:we shall explain in the sequel, the pre-cautions which the government has takenin different circumstances, not only toprevent this barbarous act, but to savethe lives of the wretched victims to theindifference of their parents. If fathers and
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