 In this wheel there are six ranks, — insects, fish, birds, animals, poor men, and mandarins. It is not necessary to go in order through the six paths, but one may go from the highest to' the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest.  Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, the Art of Speaking in Public, in ... - Pagina 313door Quintilian - 1805Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Quintilian - 1805 - 938 pagina’s
...defect, which can render my rules useless to him. Now all action, as I have already observed, consists of two things, voice and gesture; the first of which...austere. The breath too may be longer or shorter. It is foreign to my present purpose for me to shew the reasons of all this ; whether it lies in the... | |
 | 1833 - 566 pagina’s
...frame of society? I answer, a moral regeneration. Honesty — virtue — must begin, and hold its way from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest. Let the character of the nation be reformed, and its institutions will not be long corrupt. Happy the... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pagina’s
...sentence of his " Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent." It is in the following: " But between these two extremes there are many intermediate degrees,...highest. Quality is more various. For a voice may be either clear or hoarse, full or slender, smooth or sharp, stammering or flowing, hard or flexible,... | |
 | 1864 - 606 pagina’s
...would find that both were right, for have we not Christian agencies working downwards and upwards, from the highest to the lowest and from the lowest to the highest ranks of society ?— from our beloved Queen, visiting the sick and the dying at Balmoral, to William... | |
 | Louisiana. Constitutional Convention, Albert P. Bennett - 1864 - 644 pagina’s
...come up for discussion before this body, than the one now under consideration. It affects all classes, from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest. It is the department which to a greater extent than any other exercises a controlling influence over... | |
 | 1844 - 634 pagina’s
...castes, roots out despotism and all arbitrariness, produces right and justice, and wills that all, from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest, shall receive help and succour, and be brought to the knowledge and enjoyment of the truth. That nil... | |
 | Hampden C. DuBose - 1886 - 470 pagina’s
...animals, poor men, and mandarins. It is not necessary to go in order through the six paths, but one may go from the highest to' the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest. All sentient creatures are bound to this revolving wheel. There is a state of action and reaction between... | |
 | Hampden C. DuBose - 1887 - 476 pagina’s
...animals, poor men, and mandarins. It is not necessary to go in order through the six paths, but one may go from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest. All sentient creatures are bound to this revolving wheel. There is a state of action and reaction between... | |
 | Father Félix - 1896 - 210 pagina’s
...constituted for prayer. And from all the degrees of that humanity that is everywhere and constantly praying, from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest, ascends that permanent, universal and harmonious prayer that is like a continuous aspiration by which... | |
 | 1900 - 592 pagina’s
...animals, poor men, and mandarins. It is not necessary to go in order through the six paths, but one may go from the highest to the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest. Dr. HC Dubose, a missionary in China, says : " Buddhism teaches that there is a state of action and... | |
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