Author: Ku Hung-Ming

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-09-26

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781391004426

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Excerpt from The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius: New Special Translation, Illustrated With Quotations From Goethe and Other Writers The attempt is therefore here made. To render this little book, which, of all books written in the Chinese language, we believe, is the book which gives to the Chinaman his intellectual and moral outfit, accessible to the general English reader. With this object in view, we have tried to make Confucius and his disciples speak in the same way as an educated Englishman would speak had he to express the same thoughts which the Chinese worthies had to express. In order further to take away as much as possible the sense of strange ness and peculiarity for the English readers, we have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius written by Ku Hung-Ming and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Discourses and Sayings of Confucius: New Special Translation, Illustrated With Quotations From Goethe and Other Writers The attempt is therefore here made. To render this little book, which, of all books written in the Chinese language, we believe, is the book which gives to the Chinaman his intellectual and moral outfit, accessible to the general English reader. With this object in view, we have tried to make Confucius and his disciples speak in the same way as an educated Englishman would speak had he to express the same thoughts which the Chinese worthies had to express. In order further to take away as much as possible the sense of strange ness and peculiarity for the English readers, we have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.