 | 1869 - 622 pages
...of the Chinese mind is this: that, at all points of the circle described by man's intelligence, it seems occasionally to have caught glimpses of a heaven far beyond the range of its ordinary ken and vision. It caught a glimpse of the path which leads to military supremacy when it invented gunpowder... | |
 | James Legge - 1872 - 584 pages
...the entire want of them in the present, — that the sage undertook the revision of the Ch'un Ts'ew of Loo. Might not the history of the institution in...have examined the model summary of history from the stylus of the sage, and it testifies to three characteristics of his mind which it is painful to have... | |
 | James Bruce (8th earl of Elgin.) - 1872 - 510 pages
...of the Chinese mind is this — that at all points of the circle described by man's intelligence, it seems occasionally to have caught glimpses of a heaven far beyond the range of its ordinary ken and vision. It caught a glimpse of the path which leads to military supremacy when it invented gunpowder,... | |
 | James Bruce Earl of Elgin - 1872 - 498 pages
...of the Chinese mind is this—that at all points of the circle described by man's intelligence, it seems occasionally to have caught glimpses of a heaven far beyond the range of its ordinary ken and vision. It caught a glimpse of the path which leads to military supremacy when it invented gunpowder,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 618 pages
...characteristic of the Chinese mind is this, that at all points of the circle described by man's intelligence, it seems occasionally to have •caught glimpses of a...heaven far beyond the range of its ordinary ken and vision. It caught a glimpse of the path which leads to military supremacy when it invented gunpowder,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 pages
...characteristic of the Chinese mind is this, that at all points of the circle described by man's intelligence it seems occasionally to have caught glimpses of a heaven far beyond the range of its ordinary ken and vision. ... It caught a glimpse of the path which leads to military supremacy when it invented gunpowder,... | |
 | 1878 - 582 pages
...the entire want of them in the present, — that the sage undertook the revision of the Ch'un Ts'ew of Loo. Might not the history of the institution in...have examined the model summary of history from the stylus of the sage, and it testifies to three characteristics of his mind which it is painful to have... | |
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at all points of the circle described by man's intelligence, the Chinese mind seems occasionally to have caught glimpses of a heaven far beyond the range of its ordinary ken and vision?'1 Well — we have examined the model summary of history from the... 