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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ... tion of the Tartars, and the defeat of the emperor, subverted all the hopes which the missionaries had conceived. The Jesuits were expelled; but Schaal, owing to his great merits, was specially exempted from this disgrace by the conqueror. At the accession of KangIIi, greatgrandfather to the present emperor, who ascended the throne at eighteen years of age, Schaal was appointed his tutor. The esteem in which this missionary was held, saved Macao from ruin, when all the places on the coast were destroyed, to cut. off the provision from the army which then contended for the establishment of the old dynasty. A general insurrection at length took place against th- missionaries, who were all thrown into prison on the 12th Nov. 1664. Father Schaal, at that time seventy-eight years old, was laden Avith irons, and put upon his trial. He heard the sentence passed upon him which condemned him to die by being strangled, as the least infamous punishment in China; but which was changed to that of being cut to pieces, which is considered to be the most cruel and ignominious. The approbation of the government, which was administered by four regents during the minority of Kang-Hi, was alone wanting to carry this horrid and barbarous decree into execution. Heaven, however, declared in favour of the Jesuits. An earthquake spread terror 31 every mind. The people thought they discovered in it the effects of Divine vengeance; and the regency was forced to set the Chinese converts at liberty, but the missionaries were suffered to remain in prison. The earthquake being repeated with increased violence, the alarm of the people likewise increased; the missionaries were set free, but the virtuous Schaal did not long survive the persecution: he died in 1666. From that period, t...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151509093
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151509094
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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