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Page 360 - ... in that affirmation more of the supernatural than is to be found in all the miracles of all the religions; for the notion of the Infinite presents that double character that it forces itself upon us and yet is incomprehensible. When this notion seizes upon our understanding, we can but kneel. ... I see everywhere the inevitable expression of the Infinite in the world; through it, the supernatural is at the bottom of every heart. The idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite. As long as...
Page 388 - P'u-sa,3 as the spirits of Purgatory were thronging round to offer their congratulations, the ruler of the Infernal Regions spake as follows...
Page 105 - And you must know that this city stands on the greatest river in the world, the name of which is KIAN. It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it is more than 100 days' journey in length from one end to the other.
Page 129 - Manchoos — to exterminate them utterly, men, women and children — to exterminate all idolaters generally, and to possess the Empire as its True Sovereign. It and everything in it is his, its mountains and rivers, its broad lands and public treasuries ; you, and all that you have, your family, males and females from yourself to your youngest child, and your property from your patrimonial estates to the bracelet on your infant's arm. We command the services of all, and we take everything. All who...
Page 385 - In the /£a sacrifice, the principal object contemplated was the Father of Husbandry. They also presented offerings to (ancient) superintendents of husbandry, and to the (discoverers of the) various grains, to express thanks for the crops which had been reaped. They presented offerings (also) to the (representatives of the ancient inventors of the overseers of the) husbandmen, and of the buildings marking out the boundaries of the fields, and of the birds and beasts. The service showed the highest...
Page 157 - ... BLOSSOMS WHEN the rain ceases, The white water flowers of Ch'ang Lo stroll together at sunset In the City by the River. The young girls are no longer confined In the gold pavilions, But may gaze at the green water Whirling under the bridge of many turnings. TAI TA-MIEN, 18th Century ONE GOES A JOURNEY HE is going to the Tung T'ing Lake, My friend whom I have loved so many years. The Spring wind startles the willows And they break into pale leaf. I go with my friend As far as the river-bank. He...
Page 380 - Man is (the product of) the attributes of Heaven and Earth, (by) the interaction of the dual forces of nature, the union of the animal and intelligent (souls), and the finest subtile matter of the five elements'.
Page 218 - HE asks why I perch in the green jade hills. I smile and do not answer. My heart is comfortable and at peace. Fallen peach-flowers spread out widely, widely, over the water. It is another sky and earth, not the world of man.
Page 142 - ... never been able to satisfy myself; indeed, I should be disposed to doubt the possibility of doing so, where there are no moral feelings connected with the scene. We have this day been passing through a beautiful country, the lesser features as yesterday, but the general effect heightened by a nearer approach to the more distant mountains, of an elevation and form imposing and varied. It strikes me that the landscape paintings of different nations would form a good criterion of their notions of...
Page 145 - Even as a young man I was out of tune with ordinary pleasures. It was my nature to love the rooted hills, The high hills which look upon the four edges of Heaven. What folly to spend one's life like a dropped leaf Snared under the dust of streets, But for thirteen years it was so I lived. The caged bird longs for the fluttering of high leaves.