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" When we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drivellings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding... "
Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China - Page 258
by James Dyer Ball - 1893 - 419 pages
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 5

Enos Bronson - 1811 - 456 pages
...indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute...
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Select Reviews, Volume 5

1812 - 470 pages
...indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light; from the drivelings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding. And, redundant and absurdly minute...
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China: And Our Commercial Intercourse with ...

Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1822 - 458 pages
...indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...to light,— from the drivellings of dotage to the exercises of an improved understanding : And, redundant and absurdly minute as these laws are, in many...
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Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China, and Our Commercial ..., Part 2

Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1828 - 364 pages
...indeed, from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that is at once so...
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The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its ..., Volume 1

John Francis Davis - 1836 - 420 pages
...we turn frotn the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute aa these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that is at once so...
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The Chinese, Volume 1

sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 390 pages
...we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that is at once so...
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The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its ..., Volume 1

Sir John Francis Davis - 1836 - 446 pages
...we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from darkness to light — from the drive!lings of dotage to the exercise of an improved understanding : and redundant and minute as these...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumes 7-8

1837 - 1040 pages
...we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that is at once so...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 7

1837
...we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...exercise of an improved understanding ; and redundant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, we scarcely know any European code that is at once so...
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THE PENNY CYCLOPAEDIA OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE

1837 - 1822 pages
...we turn from the ravings of the Zendavesta, or the Puranas, to the tone of sense and of business of this Chinese collection, we seem to be passing from...to the exercise of an improved understanding; and redunaant and minute as these laws are, in many particulars, «u scarcely know any European code that...
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