The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches · Confucius
Introduction 143
_Part III. Greater Odes of the Kingdom._ BOOK I. DECADE OF KING WAN. Celebrating King Wan 228 [_Book II is omitted_] BOOK III. DECADE OF TANG. King Seuen on the Occasion of a Great Drought 231 _Part IV. Odes of the Temple and Altar._ BOOK I. SACRIFICIAL ODES OF CHOW. Appropriate to a Sacrifice to King Wan 235 On Sacrificing to the Kings Woo, Ching, and K[']ang 236 [_Translated into English by William Jennings_] _j_, as in French. _ng_, commencing a word, like the same letters terminating one. _ai_ or _ei_, as in _aisle_ or _eider_. _au_, as in German, or like _ow_ in _cow_. _e_, as in _fete_. _i_ (not followed by a consonant), as _ee_ in _see_. _u_ (followed by a consonant), as in _bull_. _iu_, as _ew_ in _new_. _ui_, as _ooi_ in _cooing_. _h_ at the end of a name makes the preceding vowel short. ['] in the middle of a word denotes an aspirate (h), as _K[']ung_ = _Khung_.
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