[The owls] made sly grips at my breast feathers, and carried off whole clawsful […]
Next you will have plentiful instances of extravagant, strained, hypersuperlative expressions, indicating the inability of the speakers to say what they would in definite, intelligible terms. You will find a large number of pretentious phrases, particularly foreign ones, dragged in to dignify this motley assemblage, many of which, however, you will find it difficult to recognize in their uncouth sounds and their ludicrous misapplications.
Some of his [Confucius's] philosophical principles are, … that the cause or principle of things must have had a co-existence with the things themselves; … and that the central point of influence, from which this cause chiefly acts, is the blue firmament (tien), whence its emanations are spread over the universe; … the sun, moon, stars, and elements, are considered also as composing the firmament, or Teen, as the immediate agents of the Deity, and as the productive powers in creation.
What was the effect of his widow's dedication to Cecil, is not known: it may be hoped that Ascham's works obtained for his family, after his decease, that support which he did not, in his life, very plenteously procure them.
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