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... TRACTS OF CHINA · 130 · 144 · 148 BOOK III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHINESE XI . THE SAN CHIAO OR THREE RELIGIONS OF CHINA XII . THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHINESE . • · 165 205 PAGE XIII . CHINESE IDEAS OF INSPIRATION 234 XIV . 3.
... TRACTS OF CHINA · 130 · 144 · 148 BOOK III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHINESE XI . THE SAN CHIAO OR THREE RELIGIONS OF CHINA XII . THE ETHICAL PHILOSOPHY OF THE CHINESE . • · 165 205 PAGE XIII . CHINESE IDEAS OF INSPIRATION 234 XIV . 3.
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... tracts : 1. The Reason for Obscure and Figurative Phrase- ology . " The holy sage was afraid of betraying the secrets of heaven . He accordingly sets forth the true Yin and Yang under the images of the white tiger and * A few years ago ...
... tracts : 1. The Reason for Obscure and Figurative Phrase- ology . " The holy sage was afraid of betraying the secrets of heaven . He accordingly sets forth the true Yin and Yang under the images of the white tiger and * A few years ago ...
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... him all her tricks . The Chinese apply this to their foreign instructors in the art of war , and evidently suspect that some master secret is always held in reserve . T X NATIVE TRACTS OF CHINA HE word " tract CHINESE FABLES 147.
... him all her tricks . The Chinese apply this to their foreign instructors in the art of war , and evidently suspect that some master secret is always held in reserve . T X NATIVE TRACTS OF CHINA HE word " tract CHINESE FABLES 147.
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... tracts ; and the aggregate mass of its publications in this department has , in the course of ten centuries , attained an enormous development . To enumerate even the most popular of them would necessitate the recitation of a long ...
... tracts ; and the aggregate mass of its publications in this department has , in the course of ten centuries , attained an enormous development . To enumerate even the most popular of them would necessitate the recitation of a long ...
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... tracts , these , or at least those first mentioned , are to be regarded as the sacred scriptures of the Chinese . With us , many tracts consist almost entirely of Scrip- ture passages , selected and arranged . In the native literature ...
... tracts , these , or at least those first mentioned , are to be regarded as the sacred scriptures of the Chinese . With us , many tracts consist almost entirely of Scrip- ture passages , selected and arranged . In the native literature ...
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Page 99 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Page 152 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue.
Page 158 - Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim ; Skins may differ, but affection? Dwells in white and black the same.
Page 305 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 273 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Page 44 - m resolv'd to search for thee; The search itself rewards the pains. So, though the chymic his great secret miss, (For neither it in Art nor Nature is) Yet things well worth his toil he gains: And does his charge and labour pay With good unsought experiments by the way.
Page 80 - Twas in the month of chill November, As I can very well remember, In dismal, gloomy, crumbling halls, Betwixt moss-covered, reeking walls, An exiled poet lay — On his bed of straw reclining, Half despairing, half repining ; When athwart the window sill, Flew in a bird of omen ill, And seemed inclined to stay.
Page 168 - For no vulgar idolatry has entered here — this mountain top still stands above the waves of corruption, and on this solitary altar there still rests a faint ray of the primeval faith. The tablet which represents the invisible Deity is inscribed with the name of...
Page 175 - Chinese pictures," says Pauthier, " represent the sage in the attitude of supplication, and a beam of light or a rainbow descending on the sacred volumes, while his disciples stand around him in admiring wonder." Thales expired about the time Confucius drew his infant breath, and Pythagoras was his contemporary ; but the only names among the Greeks which admit of comparison with that of Confucius, are Socrates and Aristotle, the former of whom revolutionized the philosophy of Greece, and the latter...
Page 317 - If his name appears among the favored few, he not only wins himself a place in the front ranks of the lettered, but he plants his foot securely on the rounds of the official ladder by which, without the prestige of birth or the support of friends, it is possible to rise to a seat in the Grand Council of State or a place in the Imperial Cabinet. All this advancement presents itself in the distant prospect, while the office upon which he immediately enters is one of respectability, and it may be of...