Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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Page 49
... given by them a reverence surpassing even that given by Jews and Christians to their Scriptures , and has a claim to be the most studied , even at the present day , of all the sacred books known to and believed in by men . Now in our ...
... given by them a reverence surpassing even that given by Jews and Christians to their Scriptures , and has a claim to be the most studied , even at the present day , of all the sacred books known to and believed in by men . Now in our ...
Page 53
... given to Adam no longer sufficed and so another prophet was sent with a fuller revelation , which preserved all that was still useful of the previous revelation but abrogated what was not . Some revelations given to these prophets were ...
... given to Adam no longer sufficed and so another prophet was sent with a fuller revelation , which preserved all that was still useful of the previous revelation but abrogated what was not . Some revelations given to these prophets were ...
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... given scene would still not be either exclusively verbal or theatrical but a mixture of the two . This type of comparative study , whatever objections may be made to my reduction of rasa theory as it is presented here , is valuable ...
... given scene would still not be either exclusively verbal or theatrical but a mixture of the two . This type of comparative study , whatever objections may be made to my reduction of rasa theory as it is presented here , is valuable ...
Contents
Opening Remarks by Jacques Barzun THE TEACHING OF | 3 |
Great BooksEast and West by Mark Van Doren | 7 |
Education in a Multicultural World by Thomas Berry 24 On Exploiting the Greek Analogy by Moses Hadas | 24 |
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