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With others generous and within himself strict; putting himself
in harmony with the right,[2]
he was strict with himself without
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were not appreciated: such was the conduct of Ch`ü Po-yü.
Hence those who were fathers wanted him for a son, and those
who were sons wanted him for a father; princes wanted him for
a subject, and subjects wanted him for a prince. His fame was
bright among the feudal lords, and the empire longed for him.
The Ode says,[3]
That officer
Is the ornament of the country.
Is the ornament of the country.
[2]
Wang Yin-chih (Ching i shu wên sec. [OMITTED] 6b) would emend [OMITTED] to [OMITTED]
in the meaning of "be at rest in," since that is the reading in Ssŭ-ma Chên's quotation
in his com. on Shih chi 67.1b. Yü Yüeh (Ch`ün-ching p`ing-i 17.22a) believes
that [OMITTED] is a corruption of [OMITTED], which occurs in Shang shu 9.14b interchanged with
[OMITTED], defined in Êrh ya 1.14b as "in harmony." I have followed Yü Yüeh. (Chao 51.)
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