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  • Shogunate and seized in one fell swoop the scientific knowledge and culture of the Occident, is already today showing what wisdom she has acquired in the production of surplus value, and is preparing herself that she may tomorrow play the part to Asia that England did to Europe one hundred years ago.

    THE QUESTION OF THE MAXIMUM 2010

  • Shogunate and seized in one fell swoop the scientific knowledge and culture of the Occident, is already today showing what wisdom she has acquired in the production of surplus value, and is preparing herself that she may tomorrow play the part to Asia that England did to Europe one hundred years ago.

    The Question of the Maximum 1905

  • My reasons for thinking our story not imported from the Occident are the differences in beginning, middle, and end between it and the European versions cited by Bolte-Polívka (loc. cit.).

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • The hail-fellow-well-met characteristic of the Occident is a feature of its individualism, that could not come into being in a feudal civilization in which every respectable man carried two swords with which to take instant vengeance on whoever should malign or doubt him.

    Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

  • Occident, which is doubtless a much later form of the tale, though ascribed to Hesiod.

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

  • Of the rude and aggressive form of scepticism so common in the Occident, which is the natural reaction after sudden emancipation from superstitious belief, I find no trace among my students.

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • "Occident," which he left in 1967, he founded his own movement,

    1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) 2009

  • Kaname is of the mind that men in the Occident have the advantage of high-minded ideals of women uncommon in the Orient.

    Archive 2010-05-01 2010

  • Kaname is of the mind that men in the Occident have the advantage of high-minded ideals of women uncommon in the Orient.

    Book Review for the First Time in Ages! 2010

  • The sinuous oboe line commencing Ravel's "Schéhérazade" exemplifies this, as does Saint-Saëns's equally sinuous "Orient" theme in "Orient et Occident."

    Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

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