Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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THE SHIH KING.
DECADE I.
ment, And in accordance with it smote the great
Shang.
The troops of Yin-shang Were collected like a forest, And marshalled in the wilderness of MQ. We rose (to the crisis); 'God is with you,' (said Shang-fd to the king), 'Have no doubts in your heart ?'
The wilderness of Ma spread out extensive; Bright shone the chariots of sandal; The teams of bays, black-maned and white-bellied, galloped along; The Grand-Master Shang-fu Was like an eagle on the wing, Assisting king Wa, Who at one onset smote the great Shang. That morning's encounter was followed by a clear, bright (day).
ODE 3. THE MIEN. SMALL BEGINNINGS AND SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF THE HOUSE OF XÂU
IN KÂU. ITS REMOVAL FROM PIN UNDER THAN-F0, WITH ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN KÂU, WITH THE PLACE THEN GIVEN TO THE BUILDING OF THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE, AND THE ALTAR TO THE SPIRITS OF THE
LAND. CONSOLIDATION OF ITS FORTUNES BY KING WĂN. •The ancient duke Than-fa' was the grandfather of king Wăn,
and was canonized by the duke of Kâu asking Thải. As mentioned in a note on p. 316, he was the first of his family to settle in Kâu, removing there from Pin, the site of their earlier settlement, 'the country about the Khu and the Khi.'
In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds ?. When (our) people first sprang, From the country about the Khü and the Khi, The ancient duke
1 See the account of the battle of MQ in the third Book of the fifth Part of the Shů. Shang-fd was one of Wa's principal leaders and counsellors, his Grand-Master Shang-fa ' in the next stanza.
. As a gourd grows and extends, with a vast development of its tendrils and leaves, so had the House of Kau increased.
• These were two rivers in the territory of Pin, which name still
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