 Summer is past and no rain has fallen. Not only do agriculture and human beings feel the dire calamity, but also beasts and insects, herbs and trees, almost cease to live. I, the minister of Heaven, am placed over mankind, and am responsible for keeping...  Travels in China, New Zealand, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Cape Horn ... - 第 283 頁James Holman 著 - 1840 - 519 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Herbert Henry Gowen - 1913 - 244 頁
...conciliate the favor of Heaven, the Emperor published a memorial of which the following is an extract: "Summer is past and no rain has fallen. Not only do...no genial and copious showers have been obtained." The Emperor proceeds to acknowledge: "The sole cause is the daily deeper atrocity of my sins ; but... | |
 | Herbert Henry Gowen, Upton Close - 1926 - 586 頁
...from drought and famine. One of the imperial edicts refers to these disasters in the following terms: Summer is past and no rain has fallen. Not only do...after all, no genial and copious showers have been obtained.2 All this, the Emperor acknowledges, is his own fault: "The sole cause is the daily deeper... | |
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