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In the Kingdom of Ci there was for∣merly a Praefect that slew his King. Another Praefect of the same Kingdom, beholding with horrour the Crime of this Parricide, quitted his Dignity, for sook his Wealth, and retir'd into a∣nother
The morals of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who flourished above five hundred years before the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : being one of the most choicest pieces of learning remaining of that nation.
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- The morals of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who flourished above five hundred years before the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : being one of the most choicest pieces of learning remaining of that nation.
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- Confucius.
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- 1691.
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"The morals of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who flourished above five hundred years before the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : being one of the most choicest pieces of learning remaining of that nation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34265.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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Kingdom. This Wise Minister was not so happy as to find at first what he sought after; in this new Kingdom he only found wicked Ministers, little devoted to their Masters Interest. This, saith he, shall not be the place of mine abode, I will elsewhere seek a Retreat. But always meeting with Men like to that Perfidious Minister, who by his Crime had forc'd him to abandon his Country, Dignity, and all his Estate, he wen•• through the whole Earth. If thou demandest my Thoughts con∣cerning such a Man, I cannot refuse telling you, that he deserves great Praises, and that he had a very remar∣kable Virtue. This is the Judgment that every Rational Man ought to make thereof. But as we are not the Searchers of Hearts, and as it is pro∣perly in the Heart, that true Virtue re∣sides, I know not whether his Virtue was a true Virtue; we ought not al∣ways to Judge of Men by their out∣ward Actions.