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the Empiref C HI NA.'7 
kept on Putrpofe for fuch ufes, with great care and refptf. Others of ahigli
Quality have a Pillar'of Marbleerte dto their Honor, to prferve their Me.
mory and Fame to Poflerity, by infcribing thereon in the moft legible Cha-
ra&ers, the great Services they have done for thiir Country. Some indeed
are 
more magnificently Signaliz'd, having Tep   les creded inHonor of ih ei 
Names, at the Charge of the Publick, with Images of the Party deceafed 
drawipto the Life by the befl Artifis in the Coundt la kc¢'d upon the
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tars: nor is that all, but there is Inenfe, Vefflis, Torhes, and Perfon'
a a 
pointed to look after the fame, that they may always be kept Timm'd, Per-
fLm'd, and Burning ; which to accompliflh thtniore readily. ,they have great
Veffls of Copper provikd tW burn in, as is us'd" d itLir ldolwTemplcs
;only 
there is this difference between the Worfbip of he 4nt, and the Veieratiun
of 
the other : for in that of their Gds  ty are always efiridg ot Praying for
one thing or other ; but In this, appointed tothe Memory ofadece'fedPar y
they are always fihewing their grateful R-fpefs for th* Btnefits receivd
b 
him. But it may be very foberly conjtur'd, that the ordinart Man, not able
by the narrow fcantlingof his Judgment to diferti thlisduplicity, makes no
difference between the two Wotrfips ; and this feems the more probable, for
that great numbers of People refott thither, and th re box'Cand kne, and
Offer up what they have, with the fatn  al to the one as to the other. 
All the Cbinefe Books which treat of Manners and Fafhions, contaiitn"o
other Inftru&ions but in what nanner Chfldren a e to oy their Parent:
and certainly herein theft blind People are highly t be commended ; fo 
there is no Place in the World to be ootipar'd with them in this Particular,
for the Honor and Reverence that is by Childtrn yieded to theri P  ts, 
they being neither fuffer'd to fit near them, or opp0flte untod them, but
in 
rome low place of the Room, and that with gieat Submiffion and Revt 
rence.  The like refpect is fhewn by Scholars to their Mafers ; neither dd
Children fpeak to their Parents, but in the moft fubmifilve Terms imagiria-
ble ; and if*perhaps either the Father or Mohet, or both fll into *ant iwr
their old Age, the Children freely wrk night and day td provide for the.,
and flint themfelves, pinching their own Bellies, to fillth   of their Pa'
tents: An Example truly vell worth bo imioation and praife, although, 
to their flame, not much prafifed by CbrijnJs.Svcb isthdir Behg!vior td 
their Parents living, however qualified; and it eods not with their Livcs,
but follows them to the Grave, ittending their Funeral, tiot only in theit
lourning, wherein they differ very much from FotterPople, but likewif in
e Coffin wherein the Corps is enclos'd, 'which is made the dicheand 
oft durable Wood that is to be purchas'd inthir o~  or the Neigh ing 
Eountrie . 
Every Perfon in CGina obfervds his 13irtb-dayq* Sarj, beftowing Pre- 
mnts upon his Friends, 
4ow although every Ann 
recially celebratd with 
ve to the Age of ftventt 
Ald People: and then a 
rerfes, fili'd with Eulogi 
Ltcd. There are alfo tw 
f is that of the tenth Yea 
ormer : The other, wh 
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