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... beautiful house , ' here teg means ' beautiful , ' in Turanian or Chinese the adjective necessarily stands first . ( cf. Tibetan . ) For the sentence , " Great has been the dryness of last year , " a Breton will say , Braz ' great ' eo ...
... beautiful house , ' here teg means ' beautiful , ' in Turanian or Chinese the adjective necessarily stands first . ( cf. Tibetan . ) For the sentence , " Great has been the dryness of last year , " a Breton will say , Braz ' great ' eo ...
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... beautiful flowers ; the white pæony , rhododendron , and wild rose among others , and their climate resembles that of Canada . They probably answer to the Iutchi of Pekoan of the Chinese . They are generally referred to under their most ...
... beautiful flowers ; the white pæony , rhododendron , and wild rose among others , and their climate resembles that of Canada . They probably answer to the Iutchi of Pekoan of the Chinese . They are generally referred to under their most ...
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... beautiful woman on earth I would have nothing to say to her , " cried Choo - lun . " But what , " replied his wife , " if she were the very daughter of Heu - heung , what would you say then ? " Choo - lun remembered the words of the old ...
... beautiful woman on earth I would have nothing to say to her , " cried Choo - lun . " But what , " replied his wife , " if she were the very daughter of Heu - heung , what would you say then ? " Choo - lun remembered the words of the old ...
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... beautiful and affectionate girl as Keaou - choo . Be- sides this , there was the old woman's story , to the effect that his wife only wanted to entice him into the same room with the hideous creature he had seen , and there leave him in ...
... beautiful and affectionate girl as Keaou - choo . Be- sides this , there was the old woman's story , to the effect that his wife only wanted to entice him into the same room with the hideous creature he had seen , and there leave him in ...
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... beautiful , and it seems very strange that his wife , whose jeal- ous temper he well knows , should wish to make him marry such a one , besides this , there are all those pretty girls , where can they have come from . And then the old ...
... beautiful , and it seems very strange that his wife , whose jeal- ous temper he well knows , should wish to make him marry such a one , besides this , there are all those pretty girls , where can they have come from . And then the old ...
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Adi-Buddha ancient army basin beautiful Brahman Buddha Buddhism Buddhist called Cambodian capital cause central character chief China Chinese Choo-lun Chwang-sang Cochin-Chinese D'Ohsson Dharma dynasty east Eastern emperor empire European existence father feet foreign Gur Khan hand Heu-heung hills Himalaya horses husband India inhabitants Japan Japanese Jingis Khan Kashgar Keaou-choo Keraits king lady language latter Le-kea Manchuria Manchus means Ming dynasty Mongols mountains Muhammadan native nature Népál Nepaul Nirvritti Nuck Nuck Phra Ong Oirats old servant original Peking phænomena plains Prajná Pravritti present prince province race region Rémusat replied rice river Sanskrit sent Shensi shew Shoo-chêng Siam Siamese Súdra Sun-foo Swabháva Tangut Tathagata temple Temujin Thatone things Tibet Tibetan Tien-shi tion Tishta told Too-shih-neang took town translation tribes Upaya viceroy Wang Khan Western whilst whole wife words Yatna Yedo Yug Patchan
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Page 143 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 159 - I can trace something very like Buddhism into far ages and realms : but I am sure that that Buddhism which has come down to us in the Sanskrit, Pali and Tibetan books of the sect, and which alone therefore we do or can know, is neither old nor exotic. That Buddhism (the doctrines of the...
Page 141 - ... siphia, digenea) belong to the mid-region ; and the plainer and more European types are alone found in the northern. Among the fissirostres, goat-suckers and swallows are pretty generally distributed; but rollers, bee-eaters, eurylaimi, trogons, and all such gaudy types belong to the south, with only occasional alpine representatives, as bucia is of merops. The tenuirostral birds belong distinctly to the lower region, yet they have representatives or summer visitants in all three, even among...
Page 40 - Pur&na.) 2. He whose image is Siinya t;1, who is like a cypherJ or point, infinite, unsustained (in Nirvritti), and sustained (in Pravritti), whose essence is Nirvritti, of whom all things are forms (in Pravritti), and who is yet formless (in Nirvritti), who is the Iswara, the first intellectual essence, the Adi-Buddha, was revealed by his own will.
Page 143 - Parana relates in substance as follows : That formerly the valley of Nepaul was of circular form, and full of very deep water, and that the mountains confining it were clothed with the densest forests, giving shelter to numberless birds and beasts. Countless waterfowl rejoiced in the waters. The name of the lake was Niiga Vâsa;§ it was beautiful as the lake of Indra; south of the Hemáchal, the residence of Karkotaka, prince of the Nagas ; seven со
Page 143 - NW (Vayukona) side of it, and, having repeated several mantras over the root of a lotos, he threw it into the water, exclaiming, " What time this root shall produce a flower, then, from out of the flower, Swayambhu, the Lord of Agnishtha Bhuvana, shall be revealed in the form of flame ; and then shall the lake become a cultivated and populous country.