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Hau Kiou choaan

or, The pleasing history

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IV.

HAU KIOU CHOAAN. A CHINESE HISTORY.

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II.

III.

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V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

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THE ARGUMENT or STORY OF A CHINESE PLAY ACTED AT CANTON, In the Year M. DCC. XIX.

THE ARGUMENT or STORY OF A CHINESE PLAY.

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FRAGMENTS OF CHINESE POETRY: WITH A DISSERTATION.

A DISSERTATION ON THE POETRY of the CHINESE.

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FRAGMENTS OF CHINESE POETRY.

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I.

I. ELEGIAC VERSES,

The first Brother.

The second Brother.

The third Brother.

The fourth Brother.

The fifth Brother.

II.

II. A CHINESE Panegyric From an ancient Ode .

III.

III. Verses in Praise of VU-CUNG Prince of the kingdom of GUEY, From an ancient Ode .

IV.

IV. Verses on a Tyrant,

V.

V. On an amiable Bride.

VI.

VII.

VII. A Fragment of an ancient Ode, quoted by CONFUCIUS .

VIII.

IX.

IX. On the Divine Justice .

X.

X. On curbing the Passions .

XI.

XI. On Detraction .

XII.

XII. On the Cultivation of the Heart .

XIII.

XIII. On the Revolutions of Families .

XIV.

XIV. Against Extravagance .

XV.

XV. Among the Poems of Tû-Chao-lin, is the following Song .

XVI.

XVI. A description of a fine day after rain .

XVII.

XVII. On the Detection of a bad man .

XVIII.

XVIII. On an old man killed by accident .

XIX.

XIX. On a person sailing home after long absence .

XX.

XX. Extract from a Poem intitled, "The Age instructed."

XXI.

XXI. A CHINESE FABLE .

I.

ERRATA in Vol. I.

II.

ERRATA in Vol. II.

III.

ERRATA in Vol. III.

IV.

ERRATA in Vol. IV.

I.

ERRATA omitted. VOL. I.

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The second Brother.

At home thou art inflamed with lust: abroad with [the love of] hunting:

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With both to extravagance. Thou delightest in obscene music:
Thou erectest, in the blood of citizens, buildings, which menace heaven[18] .
He, who doth these things (however ungrateful the thought)
I must deem to rush headlong and wilful to his destruction.

[18]

The houses of the Chinese have from the earliest antiquity been built low (generally but one story high) and there is nothing they have in greater abhorrence than any innovation in this matter. P. Le Compte tells us, that he himself knew one of the principal lords of the court, who having built a house a little higher than custom permitted, was glad a few days after to level it with the ground; when he found that one of the public censors was about to lodge a complaint against him for the enormity. [Voi. tom. II. 22.]—Some of the Missionaries one day shewed the late Emperor Kang-hi the model of an European house, which was several stories high: the Emperor asked, if in Europe they were straightened for room below, that they were forced thus to take up their lodging in the air. Lett. edif. &c. xxvij. 33.