ISBN: 9781150372384

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: .of the Chinese called? King (i. e, "The Books") is the collective name of the canonical works of the adherents of Confucius. It is divided into five books. These are the Yih-King, or the Book of Changes-originally a cosmological essay, now, curiously enough, regarded as a treatise This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: .of the Chinese called? King (i. e, "The Books") is the collective name of the canonical works of the adherents of Confucius. It is divided into five books. These are the Yih-King, or the Book of Changes-originally a cosmological essay, now, curiously enough, regarded as a treatise on ethics; ShuKing, or the Book of Annals-a history of the deliberations between the Emperors Yayu and Shun, and other personages, called by Confucius the Ancient Kings, and for whose maxims and actions he had the highest veneration; the Shi-King, or the Book of Songs-a book of sacred songs, consisting of three hundred and eleven poems, the best of which every well-educated Chinaman gets by heart; the Le-King, or the Book of Bites-the foundation of Chinese manners, prescribing, as it does, the ceremonies to be observed in all the relationships of life, and the great cause of the unchangeableness and artificiality of Chinese habits; and the Chun-tsien-a history by Confucius of his own times, and those which immediately preceded him. These works stand at the head of the vast literature of the Chinese, and constitute the sacred books of about 80,000,000 of people. 184. What are the sacred books of the ancient Scandinavians called? The Eddas are the sacred books of the old Scandinavian tribes. There are two works which bear this name-the Edda Scemundar hins Froda, or Edda of Ssemund the Wise, and the Edda Snorri Sturlusonar. The former, and older of these, contains the mythology of the Scandinavians, with some historical narrations of a romantic cast, embodied in thirty-nine poems, of unknown authorship and date, which were collected by Sffimund Sigfusson, surnamed Frodi, an Icelandic priest, 1054-1133. The second is a collection of the myths of the gods, and of. Books, Literary Collections~~General, Queer-Questions-And-Ready-Replies~~Samuel-Grant-Oliphant, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

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2012, ISBN: 9781150372384

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