John Webb, The Language of the Empire of China (1669)
Date
1669
Author
Book title
An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability That the Language Of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language
Publication place
London
Publisher
Nath. Brook
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
Chinese
Summary
A treatise that incidentally gives explanations of words or things.
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: As in like manner with us, though in the North of England they call that a Dove-cote, which in the South is called a Pigeon-house, the names nevertheless are good English; So also Ensis is as true Latine for a Sword as Gladius; and 'ασειόλης as pure Greek for Urbanitas as ἐνλραπελὶα. But to our purpose Cheu is as uncorrupted Chinique for a City as Fù, and Hien as either; the diversity of Terms proceeding from the different dignities they bear. (pp. 181-82)
sample: As in like manner with us, though in the North of England they call that a Dove-cote, which in the South is called a Pigeon-house, the names nevertheless are good English; So also Ensis is as true Latine for a Sword as Gladius; and 'ασειόλης as pure Greek for Urbanitas as ἐνλραπελὶα. But to our purpose Cheu is as uncorrupted Chinique for a City as Fù, and Hien as either; the diversity of Terms proceeding from the different dignities they bear. (pp. 181-82)
Alston
III.ii.781
Wing
W1202
Other editions
1678: Wing W1201 (Alston III.ii.782)
