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... give my readers security . But whenever the source of a translation is not acknowledged , I am myself responsible for it . For all the more important among the passages which I have translated for myself , I had the advantage of reading ...
... give my readers security . But whenever the source of a translation is not acknowledged , I am myself responsible for it . For all the more important among the passages which I have translated for myself , I had the advantage of reading ...
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... give it a strong claim on men's attention . It is a stupendous fact , which no thoughtful man can contemplate without emotion . It will no longer be asserted , by any one who is well - informed , that Buddhism reckons at the present day ...
... give it a strong claim on men's attention . It is a stupendous fact , which no thoughtful man can contemplate without emotion . It will no longer be asserted , by any one who is well - informed , that Buddhism reckons at the present day ...
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... give the common name of Northern , ' took shape ; or to pronounce exactly how much of its divergence from the original had been accomplished before it was carried to the Northern ' countries , and how much was accomplished after it had ...
... give the common name of Northern , ' took shape ; or to pronounce exactly how much of its divergence from the original had been accomplished before it was carried to the Northern ' countries , and how much was accomplished after it had ...
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... give us an exceedingly concrete picture of the movements of the religious world of India at the period in which . . Buddha played a part in it .'- Buddha , p . 77. See also an eloquent description in Rhys Davids's Buddhism , p . 22 . B ...
... give us an exceedingly concrete picture of the movements of the religious world of India at the period in which . . Buddha played a part in it .'- Buddha , p . 77. See also an eloquent description in Rhys Davids's Buddhism , p . 22 . B ...
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... give reasons hereafter for believing the historian : for the present it is enough to note that the third scene . of our drama is to be played in Ceylon , and dates from Mahinda in the latter part of the third century B.C. In India the ...
... give reasons hereafter for believing the historian : for the present it is enough to note that the third scene . of our drama is to be played in Ceylon , and dates from Mahinda in the latter part of the third century B.C. In India the ...
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Page 504 - ARISTOTLE.— THE WORKS OF. The Politics: G. Bekker's Greek Text of Books I. III. IV. (VII.), with an English Translation by WE BOLLAND, MA ; and short Introductory Essays by A. LANG, MA Crown 8vo.