Confucius, the Great Teacher: A StudyK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890 - 314 pages |
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... human mind is so constituted that the interest excited by the incidents of daily life , and the contem- plation of material objects , becomes insufficient to appease the cravings of a cultivated intellect . It seeks for a wider horizon ...
... human mind is so constituted that the interest excited by the incidents of daily life , and the contem- plation of material objects , becomes insufficient to appease the cravings of a cultivated intellect . It seeks for a wider horizon ...
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... human nature , and a truer idea of mankind in general , than it is possible for us to obtain by con- fining ourselves to the beaten scholastic track , and accepting — as regards all outside it — tráditional errors which have become ...
... human nature , and a truer idea of mankind in general , than it is possible for us to obtain by con- fining ourselves to the beaten scholastic track , and accepting — as regards all outside it — tráditional errors which have become ...
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... human family by which Asia was then occupied , and , moving eastward , descended into the fertile plains , north of the Yellow River , where , abandoning their nomadic habits , they finally settled , and laid the foundations of a vast ...
... human family by which Asia was then occupied , and , moving eastward , descended into the fertile plains , north of the Yellow River , where , abandoning their nomadic habits , they finally settled , and laid the foundations of a vast ...
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... human affairs ; although with this was mixed up a pantheistic belief in the existence of good and evil genii , who were supposed to possess such a degree of power as rendered them capable of exer- cising a certain amount of influence ...
... human affairs ; although with this was mixed up a pantheistic belief in the existence of good and evil genii , who were supposed to possess such a degree of power as rendered them capable of exer- cising a certain amount of influence ...
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... human sacrifices having been at one time offered up by them is only made known to us through its being on record that , at some very remote period , a block of wood , rudely shaped as a man , had been established as a substitute . Yet ...
... human sacrifices having been at one time offered up by them is only made known to us through its being on record that , at some very remote period , a block of wood , rudely shaped as a man , had been established as a substitute . Yet ...
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