 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1879 - 432 pages
...prominent place in Chinese thought from the earliest times. To use the words of the late Mr. Mayers, " A doctrine of the hidden properties and harmonies of number imbues the earliest expressions of Chinese belief." Two of those categories are ^ $ilj , san kang, ' the three bands or... | |
 | Nicholas Belfield Dennys - Social Science - 1870 - 188 pages
...an impulse the influence of which is distinctly marked in the literary traditions of the Chaldeans, the Hebrews, and the Hindoos, a doctrine of the hidden properties and harmonies of numbers imbues the earliest recorded expression of Chinese belief. So also, it may be remarked, in... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1879 - 550 pages
...prominent place in Chinese thought from the earliest times. To use the words of the late Mr. Mayers, " A doctrine of the hidden properties and harmonies of number imbues the earliest expressions of Chinese belief." Two of those categories are ^ $J, sait hang, ' the three bands or net... | |
 | Thomas Fergusson - Chronology, Chinese - 1880 - 326 pages
...impulse, the " influence of which is distinctly marked in the literary " traditions of the Chaldeans, the Hebrews, and the " Hindoos ; a doctrine of the...earliest recorded " expression of Chinese belief." Mr. Jules Oppert, in the meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, held in November 1879, made... | |
 | Thomas Fergusson - Chronology, Chinese - 1880 - 300 pages
...of which is distinctly marked in the literary " traditions of the Chaldeans, the Hebrews, and tho " Hindoos ; a doctrine of the hidden properties, and...earliest recorded " expression of Chinese belief." Mr. Jules Oppert, in the meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, held in November 1879, made... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1879 - 548 pages
...prominent place in Chinese thought from the earliest times. To use the words of the late Mr. Mayers, " A doctrine of the hidden properties and harmonies of number imbues the earliest expressions of Chinese belief." Two of those categories are ^£ $J , sail fifing, ' the three bands... | |
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Chaldseans, the Hebrews, and the Hindoos, a doctrine of the hidden properties and harmonies of number imbues the earliest recorded expression of Chinese belief. So also, it may be remarked, in the teachings of PYTHAGORAS, an abstract theory of Number... 