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... rest . Chōmei had been criticized severely by late authors of the Confucian school as a mere æsthete , in whose teaching righteousness and benevolence were absent . His attitude towards nature was certainly a very contracted one . This ...
... rest . Chōmei had been criticized severely by late authors of the Confucian school as a mere æsthete , in whose teaching righteousness and benevolence were absent . His attitude towards nature was certainly a very contracted one . This ...
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... rest without cessation . When this supreme cause divided itself into male and female that which was above constituted heaven , and that which was beneath formed the earth . Thus it was that heaven and earth were made . But the supreme ...
... rest without cessation . When this supreme cause divided itself into male and female that which was above constituted heaven , and that which was beneath formed the earth . Thus it was that heaven and earth were made . But the supreme ...
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... 23 This method professes to rest upon a phrase of Confucius . " the distinction of things . " See p . 43 note , below . 24 P. 72 below . ŌYŌMEI'S IDEALISM . Now Ōyōmei was an idealist and would KNOX A JAPANESE PHILOSOPHER . 11.
... 23 This method professes to rest upon a phrase of Confucius . " the distinction of things . " See p . 43 note , below . 24 P. 72 below . ŌYŌMEI'S IDEALISM . Now Ōyōmei was an idealist and would KNOX A JAPANESE PHILOSOPHER . 11.
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... rest ; this is the true long life and wealth and peace , for if the heart be at rest outward circumstances matter not . And an evil heart includes all the curses ; sights and sounds are painful ; even without outward sorrow there is no rest ...
... rest ; this is the true long life and wealth and peace , for if the heart be at rest outward circumstances matter not . And an evil heart includes all the curses ; sights and sounds are painful ; even without outward sorrow there is no rest ...
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... rest . So from highest to lowest wisdom determined the rank and there was none evil . The only distinction was of superior and in- ferior . " And the Sage ruled by doing " nothing . " It was enough that he was enrobed , enthroned , with ...
... rest . So from highest to lowest wisdom determined the rank and there was none evil . The only distinction was of superior and in- ferior . " And the Sage ruled by doing " nothing . " It was enough that he was enrobed , enthroned , with ...
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Page 196 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 197 - By reason, blest by faith : what we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how ; Instruct them how the mind of man becomes A thousand times more beautiful than the earth On which he dwells...
Page 199 - And stepping westward seemed to be A kind of heavenly destiny: I liked the greeting; 'twas a sound Of something without place or bound; And seemed to give me spiritual right To travel through that region bright.
Page 203 - Thy twofold shout I hear ; From hill to hill it seems to pass, At once far off and near. Though babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, Thou bringest unto me a tale Of visionary hours.
Page 40 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 203 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 44 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Page 194 - HARK, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise; Arise, arise. FEAR no more the heat o...
Page 194 - Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings. And Phoebus 'gins arise. His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary-buds begin to ope their golden eyes ; With everything that pretty is — My lady sweet, arise : Arise, arise.
Page 46 - It is exceedingly great and exceedingly strong. Being nourished by rectitude, and sustaining no injury, it fills up all between heaven and earth.