private life, personal life

teachings, doctrine, lesson

紅毛: red hair; an obsolete epithet for the Dutch; an epithet for Westerners in general

孔孟: Confucius and Mencius

influence, effect

to influence, to have an effect upon

live a life

deep, profound

to give something; to bestow; to grant; to impart

red hair / during the Edo period, an epithet for the Dutch, contrasting with the term 南蛮 (nanban, literally “Southern barbarians”) used for the Spanish and Portuguese