| Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1839 - 674 頁
...its extent has been often overrated ; and at all events it docs not seem allowable to lay any Very great stress upon the , existence of such a practice,...the wretched and desperate situation to which the laboring poor in China, to whom the practice of infanticide is admitted to be in general confined,... | |
| John Ferguson McLennan - 1896 - 634 頁
...must certainly be acknowledged to exist in China, and even to be, in some degree, tolerated. . . . Even the dreadful crime of a parent destroying its...compulsory custom of early marriages, often be reduced, of having large and increasing families ; while, owing to the already excessive population of the country,... | |
| 1881 - 612 頁
...the extent has often been overrated ; and, at all events, it does not seem allowable to lay any very great stress upon the existence of such a practice,...Even the dreadful crime of a parent destroying its oft spring is extenuated by the wretched and desperate situation to which the labouring poor in China,... | |
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