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PT. III. SECT. VI.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-SZE.
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lay our persons in the dust, it is better for us to abandon it, and maintain the purity of our conduct.'
The two princes then went north to the hill of Shâu-yang !, where they died of starvation. If men such as they, in the matter of riches and honours, can manage to avoid them, (let them do so); but they must not depend on their lofty virtue to pursue any perverse course, only gratifying their own tendencies, and not doing service in their time: —this was the style of these two princes.
1 In the present department of Phd-kau. Shan-hsî,
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