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... rivers , feminine . Here we may observe the same poetical faculty that distinguished the Semite race ; it personifies the objects of nature , apostrophoses them , and ascribes to them rational actions . There is nothing of this in the ...
... rivers , feminine . Here we may observe the same poetical faculty that distinguished the Semite race ; it personifies the objects of nature , apostrophoses them , and ascribes to them rational actions . There is nothing of this in the ...
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... rivers of Manchuria , the Amur and its tributaries , the Sungari , and the Usuri . They are divided by the Chinese ... river Gorin , on the lower Songari , from Sausin to its mouth , and on the Usuri , while the Manguns and the Olchas ...
... rivers of Manchuria , the Amur and its tributaries , the Sungari , and the Usuri . They are divided by the Chinese ... river Gorin , on the lower Songari , from Sausin to its mouth , and on the Usuri , while the Manguns and the Olchas ...
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... river . He forbade his subjects to sow the ground , hence arose a famine , cannibalism , and pestilence . The neighbouring monarchs now attacked Pegu , but failed , until the king of Toungoo succeeded in taking the city and treasure of ...
... river . He forbade his subjects to sow the ground , hence arose a famine , cannibalism , and pestilence . The neighbouring monarchs now attacked Pegu , but failed , until the king of Toungoo succeeded in taking the city and treasure of ...
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... river Etel or Volga and the Eastern ocean , bounded on the south by China , Tibet , and the river Gihon , to the north it stretched to Siberia . It bore the name of Scythia in ancient times . Ptolemy divided it into two great parts ...
... river Etel or Volga and the Eastern ocean , bounded on the south by China , Tibet , and the river Gihon , to the north it stretched to Siberia . It bore the name of Scythia in ancient times . Ptolemy divided it into two great parts ...
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... rivers which drain this vast area , such as the Indus and the Ganges in the south ; the Obi , the Jenisei , the Selinga , and the Lena in the north ; the Amur , the Hwang - ho , and the Yang - tsz ( or Kiang , i.e. , the River par ...
... rivers which drain this vast area , such as the Indus and the Ganges in the south ; the Obi , the Jenisei , the Selinga , and the Lena in the north ; the Amur , the Hwang - ho , and the Yang - tsz ( or Kiang , i.e. , the River par ...
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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.