Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited.

I will urge that there is abroad in the land a nearly universal tendancy to take lots of isses of predication to be isses of identity.

No sweet grape lies hidden here in the shade of its vine-leaves, No fermenting must fills and o'erflows the deep vats.

[…]babcias, adolescents and students, children and parents, the elderly, and they are generally well-dressed.