 | 1857 - 756 pages
...literary descendants, as the recompense for his exertions. Yet his denunciations scarcely go further than to pronounce it wicked in those to destroy their...more daughters you drown, the more daughters you will hiive ; and never was it known that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons." He recommends... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...literary descendants as the recompense for his exertions. Yet his denunciations scarcely go further than to pronounce it wicked in those to destroy their...is to make war upon Heaven's harmony" in the equal number of the sexes; " the more daughters you drown, the more daughters you will have ; and never was... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...literary descendants as the recompense for his exertions. Yet his denunciations scarcely go further than to pronounce it wicked in those to destroy their...means of bringing them up ; and some of his arguments arc strange enough : " To destroy daughters," he says, " is to make war upon Heaven's harmony" in the... | |
 | John M'Elheran - 1858 - 414 pages
...provinces admits of no doubt. One of the most eloquent Chinese writers against infanticide, Kwei Chunk Fu, professes to have been specially inspired by '...that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons.' He recommends abandoning children to their fate ' on the wayside,' as preferable to drowning... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1859 - 418 pages
...they ever come ? " — T. !'\UUI.K. " ri^O destroy daughters is to make war upon Heaven's harmony. The more daughters you drown, the more daughters you...that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons." This passage from the treatise of Kwei Chunk Fu, upon Infanticide, may be translated so as to... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1868 - 578 pages
...how can they ever come ? " — T. CAKLYLE. destroy daughters is to make war upon Heaven's harmony. The more daughters you drown, the more daughters you will have ; and ncver was it known that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons." This passage from the... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1914 - 588 pages
...ever come?" — T. CARLYLE. "^| ^0 destroy daughters is to make war upon •*• Heaven's harmony. The more daughters you drown, the more daughters you...that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons." This passage from the treatise of Kwei Chunk Fu upon Infanticide may be translated so as to... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1914 - 592 pages
...— how can they ever come?" — T. CARLYLE. destroy daughters is to make war upon Heaven's harmony. The more daughters you drown, the more daughters you...that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons." This passage from the treatise of Kwei Chunk Fu upon Infanticide may be translated so as to... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1857 - 552 pages
...literary descendants, as the recompense for his exertions, et his denunciations scarcely go further than to pronounce it wicked in those to destroy their...that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of sons." He recommends abandoning children to their fate "oil the wayside " as preferable to drowning... | |
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To destroy daughters,' he says, ' is to make war upon Heaven's harmony,' (in the equal numbers of the sexes ;) ' the more daughters you drown, the more daughters you will have ; and never was it known that the drowning of daughters led to the birth of... 