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mdp.39015000690696	Kidd, Samuel.	China, or, Illustrations of the symbols, philosophy, antiquities, customs, superstitions, laws, government, education, and literature of the Chinese by Samuel Kidd	1841		.txt	text/plain	104119	4186	56	POLITICAL STATE OF THE CHINESE-ANCIENT DYNASTIES-TARTAR CONQUEST-IMPERIAL FAMILY-PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS-SUPREME TRIBUNALS-DIFFERENT DEGREES OF NOBILITY. 5. The five original Elements, which, according to Chinese philosophers, are-fire, water, metal, wood, earth; Western philologists, who, with little practical knowledge, frame theories on the origin of this language, egregiously mistake the true nature of the written medium ; Notes showing the degree of affinity existing between the Chinese and CochinChinese Languages, and the use they respectively make of their common system of writing. daily practice of the Chinese, who throughout China understand Imperial edicts written in the same character, of symbols in the latter style which are so frequently confounded with the oral language; whereas, writers on Chinese, who use the term oral and colloquial medium, never A few illustrations of the symbol ſ heart, whose original form was designed to represent the organ, will further show the various senses in which a character is used,	./cache/mdp.39015000690696.pdf	./txt/mdp.39015000690696.txt