A General Description of China, Vol. 1: Containing the Topography of the Fifteen Provinces Which Compose This Vast Empire, That of Tartary, the Isles, and Other Tributary Countries (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But though it might have been expeéted that, from fo great a variety of authors who have written concerning China, fuficient lights would have been acquired, to enable the Europeans to form a jult notion of the manners, charaéter, and difpolition of the Chinefe; yet the learned feem to differ widely in their ideas refpeéling them. By fome they have been extolled as the wifelt and molt enlightened of mankind; while others, perhaps equally, if not more remote from the truth, have exhibited them in the molt contemptible point of view, and reprefented them as a defpicable people, deceitful, ignorant, and fuperllitious, and deititute of every principle of humanity or jullice.

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