Pamphlets: Corea, the hermit nation PDF Download

Author: William Elliot Griffis
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Category : Korea
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: William Elliot Griffis
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Category : Korea
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Author: William Elliot Griffis
Publisher: General Books
ISBN: 9780217914383
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Pages : 380

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Excerpt: ... renowned emperor Kang Hi, the Jesuits in Peking began their preat geographical enterprise--the survey of the Chinese Empire, including the outlying vassal kingdoms. From the king's palace, at Seoul, Kang Hi's envoy obtained a map of Corea, which was reduced, drawn, and sent to Europe to be engraved and printed. From this original, most of the maps and supposed Corean names in books, published since that time, have been copied. Having no Corean interpreter at hand, the Jesuit cartographers gave the Chinese sounds of the characters which represent the local names. Hence the discrepancies between this map and the reports of the Duteh, Japanese, French, and American travellers, who give the vernacular pronunciation. To French genius and labor, from first to last, we owe most of what is known in Europe concerning the secluded nation. The Jesuits' map is accurate as regards the latitude and longitude of many places, but lacking in true coast lines. While making their surveys, the party of missionaries, whose assignment of the work was to Eastern Manchuria, caught something like a Pisgah glimpse of the country which, before a century elapsed, was to become a land of promise to French Christianity. In 1709, us they looked across the Tumen River, they wrote: "It was a new sight to us after we had crossed so many forests, and coasted so many frightful mountains to find ourselves on the banks of the river Tumen-ula, with nothing but woods and wild beasts on one side, while the other presented to our view all that art and labor could produce in the best cultivated kingdoms. We there saw walled cities, and placing our instruments on the neighboring heights, geometrically determined the location of four of them, which bounded Korea on the north." The four towns seen by the Jesuit surveyors were K...

Author: William Elliot Griffis
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Author: William Elliot Griffis
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230354897
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...stone. A number of the public highways are thus adorned. These, with the tol-pi, or monumental bourne, which marks distances or points out the paths to places of resort, are interesting features of travel in the peninusla, and more pleasant to the horseman than the posts near temples and offices on which one may read "Dismount." At the funeral of great dignitaries of the realm, a life-sized figure of a horse, made of bamboo, dragged before the coffin, is burned along with the clothes of the deceased, and the ashes laid beside his remains. As the magistrates are literary men, their official residences often receive poetic or suggestive names, which, in most cases, reflect the natural scenery surrounding them. "Little Flowery House," "Rising Cloud," "Sun-greeting," "Sheet of Resplendent Water," "Water-that-slides-as-straight-as-a-sword Dwelling," "Gate of Lapis-lazuli," "Mansion near the Whirlpool," are some of these names, while, into the composition of others, the Morning-star, the Heaven-touching, the Cave-spirit, and the Changingcloud Mountain, or the Falling-snow Cataract may enter. Passionately fond of nature, the Corean gentleman will erect a tablet in praise of the scenery that charms his eye. One such reads, "The beauty of its rivers, and of its mountains, make this district the first in the country." H, as the French say, "Paris is France," then Seoul is Corea. An apparently disproportionate interest centres in the capital, if one may judge from the vast and varied vocabulary relating to Seoul, its people and things, which differentiate all else outside its wall. Three thousand official dignitaries are said to reside in the capital, ...

Author: William Elliot Griffis
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Category : Korea
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Author: William Elliot Griffis
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Category : History
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Author: William Elliot Griffis
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342090617
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Author: William Elliot Griffis
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Category : Korea
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