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... monks and books from Aracan and Siam . During the pressure of the Dutch wars it fell so low that , the historian more than once says , ' there was not one monk in Ceylon . ' Portuguese and Dutch authority - and , to some extent , in the ...
... monks and books from Aracan and Siam . During the pressure of the Dutch wars it fell so low that , the historian more than once says , ' there was not one monk in Ceylon . ' Portuguese and Dutch authority - and , to some extent , in the ...
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... monks the next day . It was graciously granted ; and , on the morrow , attended by the thousand monks who had lately been Fire - worshippers , the Buddha entered the royal city . This entrance of Gotama into Rajagaha is a celebrated ...
... monks the next day . It was graciously granted ; and , on the morrow , attended by the thousand monks who had lately been Fire - worshippers , the Buddha entered the royal city . This entrance of Gotama into Rajagaha is a celebrated ...
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... monks , and was convinced by his dignified and restrained deportment that he must be a saint . He chose a proper ... monk's name ) told him who his teacher was , and stated very briefly the general drift , without the detailed ex ...
... monks , and was convinced by his dignified and restrained deportment that he must be a saint . He chose a proper ... monk's name ) told him who his teacher was , and stated very briefly the general drift , without the detailed ex ...
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... monks , and was convinced by his dignified and restrained deportment that he must be a saint . He chose a proper ... monk's name ) told him who his teacher was , and stated very briefly the general drift , without the detailed ex ...
... monks , and was convinced by his dignified and restrained deportment that he must be a saint . He chose a proper ... monk's name ) told him who his teacher was , and stated very briefly the general drift , without the detailed ex ...
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... monks with fresh milk continually.1 On another occasion , a devout woman who could get no meat for a sick monk , when meat was parti- cularly necessary for him , secretly cut off a piece of her own flesh to send him ; and , although ...
... monks with fresh milk continually.1 On another occasion , a devout woman who could get no meat for a sick monk , when meat was parti- cularly necessary for him , secretly cut off a piece of her own flesh to send him ; and , although ...
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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.