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Common terms and phrasesAlphabetical American ancient Antananarivo Arabic Benares Bombay Boston British Museum Buddhist Calcutta Catalogue character Charles Henry Hart Chicago China Chinese cloth Coins collection College Coloured Commentary Compiled complete contains Crown 8vo Demy 8vo Description Dictionary E. H. PALMER England English Essays Fasc Fcap folio Geological German Government Grammar History Illustrated important Index India interesting Introduction issued John Journal language late Lectures Leipzig Library List literary literature LL.D LONDON LUDGATE HILL Magyar Messrs Modern Notes oloth Oriental Series original paper Paris Philadelphia Philological Philosophy Plates poems Portrait Post 8vo present Price printed Prof Professor published reader Religion Report Revised Royal 8vo Royal Asiatic Society Sanskrit scholars Science Second Edition sewed Sketch South South Wales Statistics story Survey tion Translated Treatise Triibner TRUBNER University viii volume W. T. Blanford William writings York Popular passagesPage 39 - THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana). Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India, and Founder of Buddhism (as told in verse by an Indian Buddhist). By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI , &c. Page 120 - Whitney and Edgren. — A COMPENDIOUS GERMAN AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY, with Notation of Correspondences and Brief Etymologies. By Professor WD WHITNEY, assisted by AH EDGREN. Page 39 - THE LIFE OR LEGEND OF GAUDAMA, THE BUDDHA OF THE BURMESE. With Annotations. The Ways to Neibban, and Notice on the Phongyies or Burmese Monks. BY THE RIGHT REV. Page 41 - EXTRACTS FROM THE CORAN. In the Original, with English rendering. Compiled by Sir William Muir, KCSI, LL.D., Author of "The Life of Mahomet. Page 19 - Introduction to the Science of Religion, Four Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution ; with Two Essays on False Analogies and the Philosophy of Mythology. By MAX MULLER, MA Crown 8vo. Page 150 - MA, Calcutta. Pp. xii. and 282. 1882. 10s. 6d. TIBETAN TALES. Derived from Indian Sources. Translated from the Tibetan of the Kay-Gyur. By F. Anton von Schiefner. Done into English from the German, with an Introduction. Page 41 - Professor of the History of Religions in the University of Leiden. Translated from the Dutch by J. ESTLIN CARPENTER, MA " Few books of its size contain the result of so much wide thinking, able and laborious study, or enable the reader to gain a better bird's-eye view of the latest results of investigations into the religious history of nations. As Professor Tiele modestly says, ' In this little book are outlines—pencil sketches, I might say—nothing more. Page 129 - THE MIND OF MENCIUS ; or, Political Economy Founded upon Moral Philosophy. A Systematic Digest of the Doctrines of the Chinese Philosopher Mencius. Page 150 - India,' in Volume IV., is the touchstone of the work, and proves clearly enough the sterling metal of which it is wrought. It represents the essence of the 100 volumes which contain the results of the statistical survey conducted by Dr. Hunter throughout each of the 240 districts of India. It is, moreover, the only attempt that has ever been made to show how the Indian people have been built up, and the evidence from the original materials has been for the first time sifted and examined by the light... Page 100 - The best part of Emersonianism is, it breeds the giant that destroys itself. Who wants to be any man's mere follower? lurks behind every page. No teacher ever taught, that has so provided for his pupil's setting up independently— no truer evolutionist. |