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Euamination of Four Chinese Characters.

APRIL,

manely." Tartar version assents. In this place, Ayu performs e in the following example, which may

almost the same office as

be referred to II. rule 2d, example B. Mencius, Book II, page 202,

line 2.

以

母

20

則 tseik

To puh

shejh

(ribos) os

matern.

non

comedit.

以。

妻 tse

則 tseih

OS

uxori

Ê tăng đi che

comedit

illos.

This is, maternos cibos (seu a matre oblatos) non comedit, uxorios vero comedit.

"He would not eat maternal food (i. e. food brought

by his mother); but he ate food brought by his wife." This is con- firmed by the Tartar version.

Of the words

§ VIII. The words

yu and yu and

hoo.

hoo have the same uses as

the word

yu of which we have treated in §§ IV., V. and VĮ.

"To save paper and time it will suffice to point out a few fit exam-

ples for the reader to refer to the principles already laid down.

Examples which answer to §IV.

An example of F yu; compare § IV. A and B. ·

An interpreter, explaining a passage in Mencius, says;

不puh

能 năng

Mkeae

F yu

non

possum

explicare

um

日 yeik che

Z

No sin

diei

not. gen.

anim-

此 tsze

hujus

That is, non possum (mihimet) explicare hujus diei animum, vel quisnam illo die animi sensus mihi fuerit; i. e. "I cannot to myself explain the mind of that day, or what emotions of mind I had that day. hoo; compare IV. A and B. Mencius, Book

An example of

I, page 89, line 4.

implet

seik hoo F teën

um

cæli

te

terre

che

keen

sign of poss. intervall-

That is, implet cæli et terrræ intervallum: "fills up the interval

between heaven and earth.”

Examples that answer to § VI.

An example of † yu; (compare § VI. A, C, E.) Mencius, Book

1. page 187, line 12.

取 tseu

comprehendam

F yu

殘

tsan

um

tyrann-

"I will seize the tyrant."

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