 | Arminianism - 1833 - 958 pages
...drowning, she was deified, and loaded with titles, not dissimilat to those bestowed on the Virgin Maiy. Every vessel is furnished with an image of this goddess, before which a lamp is kept burning. Some utellites, in hideous shape, stand round the portly queen, who is always represented in a sitiing posture.... | |
 | Baptists - 1833 - 744 pages
...she was deified, and loaded with titles, not dissimilar to those bestowed on the Virgin Mary. Ev ery vessel is furnished with an image of this goddess, before which a lamp is kept horning. Some satellites, in hideous shape, stand round the portly queen, who is always represented... | |
 | China - 1833 - 530 pages
...kind of miracle, saved her brother who was on the point of drowning, she was deified, and loaded witli titles, not dissimilar to those bestowed on the Virgin Mary. Every vessel is furnished with ,au image of this goddess, before which a lamp is k^rt. burning. Some satellites, in hideous shape,... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...Puhchow. On account of having with great fortitude, and by a kind of miracle, saved her brother who wan on the point of drowning, she was deified, and loaded...to those bestowed on the Virgin Mary. Every vessel \* furnished with an image ol the goddess, before which a lamp s kept burning. Some satellites, in... | |
 | Charles Toogood Downing - China - 1838 - 332 pages
...or ' Queen of Heaven.' She is said to have been a virgin, who lived some centuries ago in Fun-keen, near the district of Fuh-chow. On account of having...is furnished with an image of this goddess, before whom a lamp is kept burning. Some satellites in hideous shape stand round the portly queen, who is... | |
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She is said to have been a virgin, who lived some centuries ago in Fuhkeen, near the district of Fuhchow. On account of having, with great fortitude, and by a kind of miracle, saved her brother who was on the point of drowning, she was deified, and loaded... 