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Show S --es e e e e e o - e EIETON s Y Y S T e b ried in.Chairs 5 and wholoever is permitted to keep a Chair, mu t yfe no mor then four Chair-mento carry him. Without the Tmperial City, the Magiftrate LR Whatioever throughthe whole Empire is rare or coftly, isfent to t e King a Peking 5 the Magiftrates whereof appear with far lels State and Magnificenc abroad in the Streets, then thofe of other places; for unlefs it be fome o th chicfeft and more noble, the reft muft only ride on Horf back, and not be car N - o - SR S A . A éfeneml Defcription o e S CE- s thereof may appear abroad in a more glorious randeur ; but their lowly demea our at Peking, is done in {ubmiffion to their Soveraign ther r f d n ourth year atfourdiltin Ever times, all the Emperours' Councel affemb]e at th Tombs of the antient Kings and Queens, and there offer up ichand coftly Pre fents, with'great Humility and Reverence; but the chiefeft t King Hunonus, ho delivered the Kingdom of China out of the hands o th Tartars, and reftored the {ame to Peace and Honour Next to their King, they obferve and reverence their Superiours nd Magiftrates, whichthey do in particular forms and manners of {peech, as alf in ftate and noble Vifits ; neither is accefs free to them all, but only to fucha any Office of Honouror Truftin the Kingdom, or ferved abroad in ny Honourable Employments 5 for fuch when they return into their own Countries they ar had in great efteem, as well by the Magifirates as People If any of them has done his Countrey confiderable fervice, behaved himfe well ia his Office, hath been preferred to fome higher Degree of Honour a Truft then ordinary, or for fome reafon of State or Policy happens to remo from the City5 he isprefented by the Couritrey in his Paflage with great gifts but at ‘his departure he muft leave behind him his Boots, marks of Honour, b i perpetual remembrance of this favour : His Boots are locked up in a Cheft kept on purpofe for fuch ufes, with great care and refpe@ Others of a highe quality, have a Pillar of Marble ere&ed to their Honour, and to preferve thei Memory and Fame to Pofterity, by inf(cribing thereon in the moft legible CharaCters, the great fervices they have done for their Countrey Some indeed ar more magnificently fignalized, having Temples ereted in Honour of their names at the charge of the Publick, with Images of the party deceafed, drawn to the lif by the beft Artifts in the Countrey, andplaced uponthe Altars; nor is that all but there is Incenfe, Veflels, Torches and perfons appointed to look after th {ame, thatthey may be always kept Trimmed, Perfumed, and Burning ; which th more readily to be accomplifhed, they have great Veflels of Copper provided'to to Burn in, asis ufed in their Idol Temples ;5 only thereis this difference between the Worfhip of the one, and the Veneration of the other: For in that o their Gods, they are always defiring or praying for one thing or other, butin thi appointed to the memory of a deceafed Party, they are always (howing thei "grateful refpeds for the benefits received by him. But itmay be very foberl conjectured, that the ordinary man, not able by the narrow fcantling of his judgment to dif{cern this duplicity, makes no difference between the two Worthips and this feems the more probable, for that great numbers of people refort thither and there bow and kneel, and offer up what they have, with the fame zeal to th one, asto the other All the Chinefe Books which treat of Manners and Fafhions M - herein thele blind Pcople are highly to be commended, for there is no place in the world to be compared with them in this particular, for the Honour and Reverence that is by Children yiclded to their Parents : they are neither {uffere to fit near them, or oppofite unto them, but infome low p ace of the room, an sttt e P clean.sh data import.tsv out README V thac wich great Submiffion and Reverence a contain no othe infirutions but in what manner Children are to obey their Parents ; and certainl o ot e o Spok BSOS 0 D 2 T -- W S W Y - o - The like ref pe isfhown by Scholar t |