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... Rivers and Seas choose not the little streams . Mr. Wade has freely rendered these lines thus : - " The Hill doth not decline its clod of earth Nor doth the flood elect what stream shall feed it . " * Famous Mount in Shantung . INDEX TO ...
... Rivers and Seas choose not the little streams . Mr. Wade has freely rendered these lines thus : - " The Hill doth not decline its clod of earth Nor doth the flood elect what stream shall feed it . " * Famous Mount in Shantung . INDEX TO ...
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... rivers have been specially and largely treated , and some localities have been carefully particularized . The great histories have been but partially inves- tigated , but in them may be discovered many facts of importance to the ...
... rivers have been specially and largely treated , and some localities have been carefully particularized . The great histories have been but partially inves- tigated , but in them may be discovered many facts of importance to the ...
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... river side , of a single basin of rice , and yet he con- sidered that it required such a large sum to reward the action . Now your honour has received from Heu - heung the greatest favour one man can bestow on another , namely , your ...
... river side , of a single basin of rice , and yet he con- sidered that it required such a large sum to reward the action . Now your honour has received from Heu - heung the greatest favour one man can bestow on another , namely , your ...
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... river side , and on a bench near her he observed a basin of rice ; being ready to die with hunger , he begged to be allowed to take a few mouthfuls of her simple meal , and at once received permission , The old woman observing the ...
... river side , and on a bench near her he observed a basin of rice ; being ready to die with hunger , he begged to be allowed to take a few mouthfuls of her simple meal , and at once received permission , The old woman observing the ...
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... river Ki no gawa . The Prince of Kishiu is almost independent of the government in Yedo . Some time ago he formed the resolution to arm and equip his troops in European fashion . With this object he bought several thousand Zund- nädel ...
... river Ki no gawa . The Prince of Kishiu is almost independent of the government in Yedo . Some time ago he formed the resolution to arm and equip his troops in European fashion . With this object he bought several thousand Zund- nädel ...
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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.