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... wife , had arrived safely at the capital some days before the re - examination ordered by the Emperor was to take place . tune appear to smile on him in every way , and doubtless many of the inferior officers at the court envied him his ...
... wife , had arrived safely at the capital some days before the re - examination ordered by the Emperor was to take place . tune appear to smile on him in every way , and doubtless many of the inferior officers at the court envied him his ...
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... wife choose to disagree and quarrel , whose busi- ness is it to interfere ? why nobody's , and so he can do just as he likes , but it is quite another thing when you once accept office , then there is the official prestage to be kept up ...
... wife choose to disagree and quarrel , whose busi- ness is it to interfere ? why nobody's , and so he can do just as he likes , but it is quite another thing when you once accept office , then there is the official prestage to be kept up ...
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... wife were by any chance to hear of the real state of the case , the uproar she would make would be sufficient to render life unbearable , and what should I do then ? " It will not be difficult , " said the servant , " so to deceive my ...
... wife were by any chance to hear of the real state of the case , the uproar she would make would be sufficient to render life unbearable , and what should I do then ? " It will not be difficult , " said the servant , " so to deceive my ...
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... wife , when we were parted they were divided , and now that we are by the blessing of heaven once more restored to each others arms , let the Yuen and the Yang also be re - united . " On hearing these words Choo - lun turned pale , and ...
... wife , when we were parted they were divided , and now that we are by the blessing of heaven once more restored to each others arms , let the Yuen and the Yang also be re - united . " On hearing these words Choo - lun turned pale , and ...
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... wife . But al- though he was longing and burning with desire to know all about it , yet he had not the courage to go to his wife and put the question to her , but having seen his old servant's wife go into the house with her mistress ...
... wife . But al- though he was longing and burning with desire to know all about it , yet he had not the courage to go to his wife and put the question to her , but having seen his old servant's wife go into the house with her mistress ...
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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.