"Eightfold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the noble eightfold path that mounts From life's low levels to Nirvana's heights. Not by steep grades the strong alone can climb, But by such steps as feeblest limbs may take. He saw that day by day and step by step, By lusts resisted and by evil shunned, By acts ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles
... industries Germany is second only to America. In one generation its coal production increased two and a half fold, its raw iron production almost fourfold. During the same period of time the capital of the German banks increased fourfold and their reserve fund eightfold. Characteristic of Germany is the fact that hand in hand with this active private initiative is a strong feeling for the great universal interests and for organic co-operation of private and State resources. This feeling explains the ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 - Who Began the War, and Why? • Various
... Take-haya-susa-no-wo-no-mikoto, at once taking and changing the young girl into a close-toothed comb, which he stuck into his august hair-bunch, said to the Deities Ashi-nadzu-chi and Te-nadzu-chi: "Do you distil some eightfold refined liquor. Also make a fence round about; in that fence make eight gates; at each gate tie a platform; on each platform put a liquor-vat; and into each vat pour the eightfold refined liquor, and wait." So as ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn |
