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Page 164 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 148 - With Heaven and Earth for my coffin and shell; with the sun, moon, and stars as my burial regalia; and with all creation to escort me to the grave, — are not my funeral paraphernalia ready to hand?
Page 218 - With the slayer of his father, a man may not live under the same heaven; against the slayer of his brother, a man must never have to go home to fetch a weapon ; with the slayer of his friend, a man may not live in the same State.
Page 91 - even the pupils at village schools threw away their text-books of rhetoric, and began to study primers of history, geography, and political economy.
Page 92 - He introduced interpretations either wholly or partly at variance with those which had been put forth by the scholars of the Han dynasty and hitherto received as infallible, thus modifying to a certain extent the prevailing standard of political and social morality.
Page 121 - To gaze upon the clouds of autumn, a soaring exaltation in the soul ; to feel the spring breezes stirring wild exultant thoughts ; — what is there in the possession of gold and gems to compare with delights like these ? And then, to unroll the portfolio and spread the silk, and to transfer to it the glories of flood and fell, the green forest, the blowing winds, the white water of the rushing cascade, as with the turn of the hand a divine influence descends upon the scene . . . these are the joys...
Page 61 - The pure men of o\d acted without calculation, not seeking to secure results. They laid no plans. Therefore, failing, they had no cause for regret; succeeding, no cause for congratulation.
Page 230 - ... those who have in their possession blasphemous or obscene books and do not destroy them, who obliterate or tear books which teach man to be good...
Page 120 - To the Sung artists and poets mountains were a passion, as to Wordsworth. The landscape art thus founded, and continued by the Japanese in the fifteenth century, must rank as the greatest school of landscape which the world has seen.