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Hau Kiou choaan

or, The pleasing history
  
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HAU KIOU CHOAAN. A CHINESE HISTORY.
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CHAP I.
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CHAP. II.
 III. 
CHAP. III.
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CHAP. IV.
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CHAP. V.
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CHAP. VI.
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CHAP. VII.
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CHAP. VIII.
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CHAP. IX.
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CHAP. X.
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THE ARGUMENT or STORY OF A CHINESE PLAY ACTED AT CANTON, In the Year M. DCC. XIX.
  
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INTRODUCTION.
  
THE ARGUMENT or STORY OF A CHINESE PLAY.
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FRAGMENTS OF CHINESE POETRY: WITH A DISSERTATION.
  
ADVERTISEMENT.
  
A DISSERTATION ON THE POETRY of the CHINESE.
  
INTRODUCTION.
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FRAGMENTS OF CHINESE POETRY.
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I. ELEGIAC VERSES,
  
The first Brother.
  
The second Brother.
  
The third Brother.
  
The fourth Brother.
  
The fifth Brother.
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II. A CHINESE Panegyric From an ancient Ode .
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III. Verses in Praise of VU-CUNG Prince of the kingdom of GUEY, From an ancient Ode .
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IV. Verses on a Tyrant,
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V. On an amiable Bride.
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VII. A Fragment of an ancient Ode, quoted by CONFUCIUS .
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VIII.
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IX. On the Divine Justice .
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X. On curbing the Passions .
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XI. On Detraction .
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XII. On the Cultivation of the Heart .
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XIII. On the Revolutions of Families .
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XIV. Against Extravagance .
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XV. Among the Poems of Tû-Chao-lin, is the following Song .
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XVI. A description of a fine day after rain .
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XVII. On the Detection of a bad man .
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XVIII. On an old man killed by accident .
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XIX. On a person sailing home after long absence .
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XX. Extract from a Poem intitled, "The Age instructed."
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XXI. A CHINESE FABLE .
  
POST-SCRIPT.

  
INDEX.
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ERRATA in Vol. I.
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ERRATA in Vol. II.
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ERRATA in Vol. III.
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ERRATA in Vol. IV.
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ERRATA omitted. VOL. I.
  
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On the Cultivation of the Heart[32] .

When the rice hath spring up, the husbandman transplanteth it into a field newly cleared:
And soon after by introducing a limpid water, he seeth in this green inundated field, the image of a clear sky.
Our heart is the field: it hath its attire and riches, when the passions are pure and regular.
The sure means of attaining a state of perfection, and a sign that we advance towards it, is not to be conceited, and boast we have attained to it.
 
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P. Du Halde, 2. 167.

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