תמונות בעמוד
PDF
ePub

THE

LIFE AND TEACHINGS

OF

CONFUCIUS.

WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES.

BY

JAMES LEGGE, D.D.

Sixth Edition.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59 LUDGATE HILL.

1887.

[All rights reserved.]

AIMICILIAD

Main Lib.

JOHN FRYER

CHINESE LIBRARY

3128 C8L4

136

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH,

WITH

PRELIMINARY ESSAYS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.

(REPRODUCED FOR GENERAL READERS FROM THE AUTHOR'S WORK
CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL TEXT, &c.)

BY

JAMES LEGGE, D.D.

VOL. I.

THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS.

Sixth Edition.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 57 & 59 LUDGATE HILL.

1887

[All rights reserved

PREFACE.

WHEN the author, in 1861, commenced the publication of the Chinese Classics, with an English translation and such a critical apparatus as was necessary to the proper appreciation of the original Works, he did not contemplate an edition without the Chinese text and simply adapted for popular reading. It was soon pressed upon him, however, from various quarters; and he had formed the purpose to revise the separate volumes, when he should have completed the whole of his undertaking, and to publish the English text, with historical introductions and brief explanatory notes, which might render it acceptable for general perusal.

He is sorry that circumstances have arisen to call for such an issue of his volumes, without waiting for the completion of the last of the Classics;-principally because it adds another to the many unavoidable hindrances which have impeded the onward prosecution of his important task. A Mr Baker, of Massachusetts, in the United States, having sent forth the prospectus of a republication of the author's translation, his publisher in London strongly represented to him the desirableness of his issuing at once a popular edition in his own name, as a counter-movement to Mr Baker's, and to prevent other similar acts of piracy:—and the result is the appearance of the present volume. It will be followed by a second, containing the Works of Mencius, as soon as the publisher shall feel himself authorized by public encouragement to go forward with the undertaking.

The author has seen the first part of Mr Baker's republication, containing the English text of his first volume, and the indexes of Subjects and Proper Names, without alteration. The only other matter in it is an introduction of between seven and eight pages. Four of these are occupied with an account of Confucius, taken from Chambers' Encyclopædia,

« הקודםהמשך »