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" Lady, what is this that you say! The living are few, but the dead are many." Then she went to other houses, but one said, "I have lost a son;" another, "I have lost my parents;" another, "I have lost my slave. "
Buddhism: Being a Sketch of the Life and Teachings of Gautama, the Buddha - Page 135
by Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1887 - 252 pages
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Buddhaghosha's parables, tr. by T. Rogers. With an intr., containing Buddha ...

Buddhaghosa (theologian.) - 1870 - 410 pages
...many." Then she went to other houses, but one said, " I have lost a son ; " another, " I have lost my parents ; " another, " I have lost my slave." At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died, from which to procure the mustard seed, she began to think, "This is a heavy task that I am engaged...
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Lectures on the Science of Religion: With a Paper on Buddhist Nihilism, and ...

Friedrich Max Müller - 1872 - 340 pages
...many.' Then she went to other houses, but one said, ' I have lost a son ; ' another, ' J have lost my parents ; ' another, ' I have lost my slave.' At last,...not being able to find a single house where no one Lad died, from which to procure the mustard seed, she be.gan to think. ' This is a heavy task that...
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Lectures on the Science of Religion

Friedrich Max Müller - 1874 - 316 pages
...many.' Then she went to other houses, but one said, ' I have lost a son ; ' another, ' I have lost my parents ; ' another, ' I have lost my slave.' At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died, from which to procure the mustard seed, she began to think. ' This is a heavy task that I am engaged...
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Mohammed, Buddha, and Christ: Four Lectures on Natural and Revealed Religion

Marcus Dods - 1877 - 256 pages
...many ! " Then she went to other homes, but one said, " I have lost a son;" another, "I have lost my parents;" another, " I have lost my slave." At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died, she began to think, " This is a heavy task that I am on." And as her mind cleared, she summoned up...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review, Volume 13

1878 - 720 pages
...many.' Then she went to other houses, but one said, ' I have lost a son ; ' another, ' I have lost my parents ;' another, ' I have lost my slave.' At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died, from which to procure the mustard seed, she began to think, ' This is a heavy task that I am engaged...
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The Life of Adoniram Judson

Edward Judson - 1883 - 654 pages
...my friend's house has any son died, or a husband, or a parent, or a slave ?' they answer, • Lady, what is this that you say ? The living are few, but...Buddha, paid him homage. He said to her, ' Have you the mustard seed ? ' ' My Lord,' she replied, ' I have not ; the people tell me that the living are few,...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian ...

1883 - 822 pages
...many.' Then she went to other houses, but one said, ' I have lost a son ;' another, ' I have lost my parents;' another, * I have lost my slave.' At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died from which to procure the mustard seed, she began to think, ' This is a heavy task that I am engaged...
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The Light of Asia and the Light of the World: A Comparison of the Legend ...

Samuel Henry Kellogg - 1885 - 422 pages
...many.' Then she went to other houses, but one said, 'I have lost a son ;' another, ' I have lost my parents ; ' another, ' I have lost my slave.' At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died, from which to procure the mustard seed, she began to think, ' This is a heavy task that I am engaged...
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A Homiletic Encyclopaedia of Illustrations in Theology and Morals. ...

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 pages
...house answered, " We have lost a son ;" another, " We have lost parents;" another, "We have lost a slave." At last, not being able to find a single house where one had not died, she began to think hers was not the only son who had suffered death ; that everywhere...
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Popular Tales and Fictions: Their Migrations and Transformations, Volume 2

William Alexander Clouston - 1887 - 530 pages
...many." Then she went to other houses ; but one said, " I have lost a son ; " another, " I have lost my parents ; " another, " I have lost my slave." At last,...able to find a single house where no one had died, from which to procure the mustard-seed, she began to think, "This is a heavy task that I am engaged...
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