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" Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China... "
The Literature and Curiosities of Dreams: A Commonplace Book of Speculations ... - Page 251
by Alexander Henley Grant - 1865
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Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices

Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 286 pages
...Turk disintegrates, so does De Quincey's interaction with the Asian. On one hand he is wholly alien: "In China, over and above what it has in common with...am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence, and want of sympathy placed between us by feelings deeper than...
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Cambridge Readings in Literature

308 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...barrier of utter abhorrence placed between myself and them, by counter-sympathies deeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with lunatics, with vermin,...
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Selections from de Quincey

176 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...barrier of utter abhorrence placed between myself and them, by counter-sympathies deeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with lunatics, with vermin,...
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Cambridge Readings in Literature

George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1931 - 348 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...barrier of utter abhorrence placed between myself and them, by counter-sympathies deeper than I can analyse. I could sooner live with lunatics, with vermin,...
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The Philosophy of Sleep

Robert Macnish - Hygiene - 1834 - 352 pages
...vast empires, also, into which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a farther sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental...am terrified by the modes of life, by the manners, and the barrier of utter abhorrence and want of sympathy placed between us by feelings deeper than...
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Letture inglesi: coordinate al programma governativo dei licei e corredate ...

Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 pages
...thousands of years, the part of the earth most swarming with human life, the great officina gentìum. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires,...has always been cast give a further sublimity to the feeiings associated with all orientai names or images. In China, over and above what it has in common...
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 22

Great Britain - 1873 - 866 pages
...human life — the great offieina gentium. Man is a weed in these regions. The vast empires, also, in which the enormous population of Asia has always been cast, give a j further sublimity to the feelings associated with all Oriental names or images. In China, over and...
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