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14 THE CHINESE LANGUAGE All this is simple enough. Any one with a knowledge of the radicals and with the aid of a dictionary could make it out for himself, filling in the grammatical lacunae as suited his fancy. The same may be said of the following, taken from the Lun Yii, or collected sayings of Confucius, called by Dr. Legge the Confucian " Analects." Their antiquity is beyond question, and we may safely consider them to date from some time before the Christian Era. yet happy, rich, yet like propriety person terminal particle n; m proud, JJH how fpf as - #0, master ^p say, can, pj" final i i i Hla" particle I not 5fc poor Tsze = Kung Jl' say poor, ^ y et M not fa flatter, , rich, ^ yet M not 4ffi Dr. Legge translates as follows, supplying, as before, the gaps : Tsze Kung said, " What do you pronounce concerning the poor man who yet does not flatter and the rich man who is not proud?" The master said, " They will do, but they are not equal to him, who, though poor, is yet cheerful, and to him who, though rich, loves the rules of propriety." I treat my third and last example in the same manner as the foregoing, placing the more or less elementary meaning of the word against each character. yellow cart attendant one, bright the filled door, red JK
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