Citations:Thibet

English citations of Thibet

• 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, pages 35–36:

  The northern boundary of China is the Great Wall, by which it is separated, on that side from the desert lands of the Mongol tribes, and from the scarcely less dreary country of the Mantchous; on the east, the gulf of Pechelee, (called in Chinese Puh-hae), the Eastern ocean, and the Formosa channel wash the rocky coast, and receive the waters of several large rivers; on the south, the China sea is thickly studded with barren islands, the resort of desperate pirates; and on the west, several barbarous frontier tribes stand between the ancient Empires of China and Thibet; while the south-western provinces are conterminous with the foreign kingdoms of Tonquin, Cochinchina, Burmah, and the half-conquered Laos.

• 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter I, Aristocracies

  In truth, could your divine Anselm, your divine Pope Gregory have had their way, the results had been very notable. Our Western World had all become a European Thibet, with one Grand Lama sitting at Rome; our one honourable business that of singing mass, all day and all night.

• 1866, “Relations of India with Greece and Rome”, in The Princeton Review‎^[2], page 408:

  The point of departure was Minnegara, the modern Ahmedpur on the Indus; thence it followed the great road still frequented through Cabulistan into Bactria. Here three roads diverged. One led across the Belurtag mountains to Central Asia, East Turkistan, the desert of Gobi, and Thibet, and was the avenue of trade with the seres inhabiting this region.

• 1937, Carl Crow, “This Neighbourly World”, in Four Hundred Million Customers‎^[3], 3rd edition, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 316:

  YOU may have noticed that the last tooth brush you bought was not quite so good as the previous one of the same brand. You may also have read that the Chinese government has recently been sending soldiers to clear the bandits and communists from Szechuen, that amazingly rich and populous province which borders on mysterious and inaccessible Thibet. It probably never occurred to you that there was any connection between the two incidents of that banditry around the head waters of the Yangtsze would affect the quality of an English tooth brush.

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French citations of Thibet

• 1879, Jules Verne, Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine, Chapter 3 on the French Wikisource.Wikisource ^fr

  D’ailleurs, un royaume de cent quatre-vingt mille milles carrés, qui, du nord au sud, mesure plus de huit cents lieues, et, de l’est à l’ouest, plus de neuf cents, qui compte dix-huit vastes provinces, sans parler des pays tributaires : la Mongolie, la Mantchourie, le Thibet, le Tonking, la Corée, les îles Liou-Tchou, etc., ne peut être que très imparfaitement administré.