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Hau Kiou choaan

or, The pleasing history
  
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HAU KIOU CHOAAN. A CHINESE HISTORY.
 I. 
CHAP I.
 II. 
CHAP. II.
 III. 
CHAP. III.
 IV. 
CHAP. IV.
 V. 
CHAP. V.
 VI. 
CHAP. VI.
 VII. 
CHAP. VII.
 VIII. 
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.
  
ADVERTISEMENT.
  
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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XIV.
Against Extravagance[34] .

[A CHINESE Author, speaking of
the extravagant splendor, with which
his Countrymen celebrate some of
their festivals; adds, "One would
be apt to say, that the money employed
on these occasions was like
the leaf of a tree taken from a
vast forest; or like a grain of
corn taken from a large granary."—There
needs no more than
a marriage to ruin the best houses.
It is because they don't read what
is said by the Poet,

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In the marriages of these sort of families, every body crieth out that the houses are of silver.
Wait but a few years longer, both the man and his fortune shall be overturned.
The jewels and silver shall have passed away into another family[35] .
 
[34]

P. Du Halde, 2. 64.

[35]

The same writer proceeds to condemn the like extravagance in building, upon which occasion he introduces the following, "I remember to have seen in the province of Kiang-si, the house of the noble and learned Li-po-ngan: the columns and joists that supported it, were not so much as smoothed: the wood was covered with its bark; the walls were of dry rough stone. Yet he was visited by every body of distinction, and saw none, who found fault with his lodging." P. Du Halde, 2. 64. &c.

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