Excerpt from Points and Pickings of Information About China and the Chinese Points and Pickings It is clear, from the very words that I am not going to put you off with a humdrum account which might send you to Sleep. If my book be not full of good information, good feeling, and good temper, it will not be the book I intend to make it. Mine will not be a history of China and of the Chinese people, but a careful, cor rect, and Sprightly selection of Such things as will afford young people the most pleasure and the most ...
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Excerpt from Points and Pickings of Information About China and the Chinese Points and Pickings It is clear, from the very words that I am not going to put you off with a humdrum account which might send you to Sleep. If my book be not full of good information, good feeling, and good temper, it will not be the book I intend to make it. Mine will not be a history of China and of the Chinese people, but a careful, cor rect, and Sprightly selection of Such things as will afford young people the most pleasure and the most profit. I see now, that you begin to like my title, Points and Pickings, almost as well as I do myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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