Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan

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Asiatic Society of Japan., 1895
Catalogue of the library of the Society, in v. 47.
 

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第 188 頁 - ... after an equal lapse of time, I found there a flourishing city, more populous and more rich in beautiful buildings than the city I had seen the first time ; and when I would fain have informed myself concerning its origin, the inhabitants answered me, ' Its rise is lost in remote antiquity. We are ignorant how long it has existed; and our fathers were, on this subject, as ignorant as ourselves.
第 38 頁 - MANY A HOUSE OF LIFE HATH HELD ME — SEEKING EVER HIM WHO WROUGHT THESE PRISONS OF THE SENSES, SORROW-FRAUGHT; SORE WAS MY CEASELESS STRIFE.' BUT NOW, THOU BUILDER OF THIS TABERNACLE — THOU! I KNOW THEE! NEVER SHALT THOU BUILD AGAIN THESE WALLS OF PAIN, NOR RAISE THE ROOF-TREE OF DECEITS, NOR LAY FRESH RAFTERS ON THE CLAY; BROKEN THY HOUSE is, AND THE RIDGE-POLE SPLIT! DELUSION FASHIONED IT! SAFE PASS I THENCE — DELIVERANCE TO OBTAIN.
第 xii 頁 - is a certain definite quantity of gold with a mark upon it to determine its weight and fineness, and that the engagement to pay a ' Pound ' means nothing, and can mean nothing else, than the promise to pay to the holder, when he demands it, that definite quantity of gold.
第 30 頁 - Two serpents, rank'd abreast, the seas divide, And smoothly sweep along the swelling tide. Their flaming crests above the waves they show ; Their bellies seem to burn the seas below; Their speckled tails advance to steer their course, And on the sounding shore the flying billows force.
第 30 頁 - We fled amazed ; their destined way they take, And to Laocoo'n and his children make ; And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpened fangs their limbs and bodies grind.
第 30 頁 - Their bellies seem to burn the seas below ; Their speckled tails advance to steer their course, And on the sounding shore the flying billows force. And now the strand, and now the plain, they held : Their ardent eyes with bloody streaks were...
第 xxxviii 頁 - Tablets with inscriptions (gaku) were placed on the torii with this belief, and one of the first things done after the restoration of the Mikado in 1868 in the course of the purification of the Shinto temples was the removal of these tablets. The etymology of the word is evidently
第 li 頁 - Council and balloted for the next, one black ball in five to exclude ; and their Election shall be announced at the General Meeting following.
第 30 頁 - And first around the tender boys they wind, Then with their sharpened fangs their limbs and bodies grind. The wretched father, running to their aid With pious haste, but vain, they next invade. Twice round his waist their winding volumes rolled, And twice about his gasping throat they fold. The priest, thus doubly choked, their crests divide, And towering o'er his head, in triumph ride.
第 188 頁 - Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place, I could not perceive the slightest vestige of the city. I demanded of a peasant, who was gathering herbs upon its former site, how long it had been destroyed. ' In sooth a strange question !' replied he. ' The ground here has never been different from what you now behold it.' — ' Was there not of old," said I, ' a splendid city here ?' — 'Never,' answered he, 'so far as we have seen, and never did our fathers speak to us of any such.

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