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... splendour . Trees and temples innumerable break the stupefying obsession of merely secular buildings with the endless joy of things immortal and divine . It contains a Palace of Heavenly Purity , a Temple of Distinguished Happiness ...
... splendour . Trees and temples innumerable break the stupefying obsession of merely secular buildings with the endless joy of things immortal and divine . It contains a Palace of Heavenly Purity , a Temple of Distinguished Happiness ...
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... splendour of the rising sun , the solemn sadness of its setting behind blue lines of western hills which they fancy must be the final home of all that fades away into silence , sleep , and solitude . tested a ther own fate , full to ...
... splendour of the rising sun , the solemn sadness of its setting behind blue lines of western hills which they fancy must be the final home of all that fades away into silence , sleep , and solitude . tested a ther own fate , full to ...
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... and supplication . And what was held to qualify him for this sacred function was not gorgeousness of apparel , splendour of retinue , magnificence of palaces , but a single and pure heart PENCIL SPEAKINGS FROM PEKING 63.
... and supplication . And what was held to qualify him for this sacred function was not gorgeousness of apparel , splendour of retinue , magnificence of palaces , but a single and pure heart PENCIL SPEAKINGS FROM PEKING 63.
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... splendour of the palace , he would long for the silent temple with its green trees , and its pink walls , and its white steps each day mirrored in the monotonously murmuring river till winter , when the waters froze and even their small ...
... splendour of the palace , he would long for the silent temple with its green trees , and its pink walls , and its white steps each day mirrored in the monotonously murmuring river till winter , when the waters froze and even their small ...
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... splendour , arrayed himself in his most gorgeous robes , his costliest gems , before setting fire to it all , that reclining on his lacquer throne , he might fill his eyes with the riotous glory of red flames , watch the gold carvings ...
... splendour , arrayed himself in his most gorgeous robes , his costliest gems , before setting fire to it all , that reclining on his lacquer throne , he might fill his eyes with the riotous glory of red flames , watch the gold carvings ...
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Page 251 - Next thou shouldst form the perception of water; gaze on the water clear and pure, and let (this image) also remain clear and fixed (afterwards) ; never allow thy thought to be scattered and lost. ' When thou hast thus seen the water thou shouldst form the perception of ice. As thou seest the ice shining and transparent, thou shouldst imagine the appearance of lapis lazuli. 'After that has been done, thou wilt see the ground consisting of lapis lazuli, transparent and shining both within and without....
Page 55 - Do not make a noise in eating; do not crunch the bones with the teeth ; do not put back fish you have been eating ; do not throw the bones to the dogs ; do not snatch (at what you want). 56. Do not spread out the rice (to cool) ; do not use chopsticks in eating millet3. 1 This paragraph refers to a practice something like our
Page 218 - The great mountain must crumble, The strong beam must break, The wise man must wither away like a plant.
Page 69 - ... killing (and eating) them1. 9. The son of Heaven occupies the apartment on the left of the 3ung-^ang (Fane) ; rides in the war chariot, drawn by the white horses with black manes, and bearing the white flag. He is clothed in the white robes, and wears the white jade. He eats hemp-seeds and dog's flesh. The vessels which he uses are rectangular, and going on to be deep 2. 10. In this month there takes place the inauguration of autumn. Three days before the ceremony, the Grand recorder informs...
Page 71 - He fasted; cut off his hair and nails, and in a plain carriage, drawn by white horses, clad in rushes, in the guise of a sacrificial victim, he proceeded to a forest of mulberry trees, and there prayed, asking to what error or crime of his the calamity was owing. He had not done speaking when a copious rain fell.] BOOK IV.
Page 251 - Over the surface of that ground of lapis lazuli there are stretched golden ropes intertwined crosswise; divisions are made by means of (strings of) seven jewels with every part clear and distinct. 'Each jewel has rays of five hundred colours which look like flowers or like the moon and stars. Lodged high up in the open sky these rays form a tower of rays, whose storeys and galleries are ten millions in number and built of a hundred jewels. Both sides of the tower have each a hundred millions of flowery...
Page 232 - gay creature of the elements" had not taken his place contentedly, where nature had assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin.
Page 219 - ... on hearsay talk; and above all, hated pride, hypocricy, contentiousness, and greed; an upright, kind, and generous man, such as every one might grow to be, who would love nobility of character with a fervour as great as that usually bestowed on sensual delights and who in his calm serenity found all he needed, because he kept his mind attuned to the glorious melodies vibrating between Heaven, Earth and Man."9 Confucius has more than often been compared to Socrates, for both shared many characteristics...
Page 251 - It extends to the eight points of the compass, and thus the eight corners (of the ground) are perfectly filled up. Every side of the eight quarters consists of a hundred jewels, every jewel has a thousand rays, and every ray has eightyfour thousand colours which, when reflected in the ground of lapis lazuli, look like a thousand millions of suns, and it is difficult to see them all one by one. Over the surface of that ground of lapis lazuli there are...
Page 16 - Government is good when it makes happy those who live under it and attracts those who live far away.