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... sense an independent student , I am glad to say I am not advancing strange or startling views , but adding , in most points , the slight weight of my confirmation to what has been written by those who have gone before me . In regard to ...
... sense an independent student , I am glad to say I am not advancing strange or startling views , but adding , in most points , the slight weight of my confirmation to what has been written by those who have gone before me . In regard to ...
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... sense , it was impossible for me to be . The questions raised are not for me open questions : I start with immovable convictions about the main principles of truth and goodness . But heartily to welcome all that agreed with those ...
... sense , it was impossible for me to be . The questions raised are not for me open questions : I start with immovable convictions about the main principles of truth and goodness . But heartily to welcome all that agreed with those ...
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... sense ; to be rather a social and political than a spiritual system . But it might be plausibly urged that Buddhism also is rather a philosophy than a religion ; and if the comparison between the numbers of the various ' religions ' is ...
... sense ; to be rather a social and political than a spiritual system . But it might be plausibly urged that Buddhism also is rather a philosophy than a religion ; and if the comparison between the numbers of the various ' religions ' is ...
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... sense all over India , and even to Ceylon . The centre of this empire was at Pataliputra ( now Patna ) , the new capital of the once humble Magadha , in which the Buddha had been welcomed by Bimbisara . It was no doubt in part the ...
... sense all over India , and even to Ceylon . The centre of this empire was at Pataliputra ( now Patna ) , the new capital of the once humble Magadha , in which the Buddha had been welcomed by Bimbisara . It was no doubt in part the ...
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... sense he was Asoka's son , introduced the Pitaka texts into Ceylon . With them historians tell us that he brought with him also the Commentaries , which he translated into Sinhalese . The Pali originals of these were soon lost sight of ...
... sense he was Asoka's son , introduced the Pitaka texts into Ceylon . With them historians tell us that he brought with him also the Commentaries , which he translated into Sinhalese . The Pali originals of these were soon lost sight of ...
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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.