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6. 秦 THIN KI.
Names of the Sovereign.
Chị
Cotemporary Ching Events.
## Chwangsiáng wáng. This emperor mi Chau,
exterminated Chau.
Note. These two dynasties—if they are to be separated-may be considered
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as one. ` They are separated here because they are thus arranged in the work
from which we obtain them-the History Made Easy.
7. 後泰 HAU Tern Kı.
Names of the Sovereigns.
始皇帝 Chí Hwangti.
Cotemporary Chinese Events.
Đề kt chua chung ching, Chí
二世皇帝 'Rhshí Hwangts built the great wall; and 焚書
fan shi, burnt the books.
Parts of the Chinese history are involved in much obscurity, and few more so than that of this period. The 'unravelment of history,' has been made an object of particular attention with some of their best scholars, and one of their works bears such a name. But it forms no protion of our present object to enter upon the discussion of these entanglements, or to attempt their unravelment.
In the year 250 B. C., a prince named Hiáuman wang obtained the throne, but died a few months afterwards; in the Káng K'ien I' Chí, his name does not appear upon the list of sovereigns; it has a place however in the chronological table, Sán yuen kiáh tsz'.
Chí Hwangtí, the successor of Chwángsiáng was a remarkble person, and his acts more memorable than those of any other sover- eign who ever occupied the throne of this empire.
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With all his greatness there was much that was base and execrable in his character. His name was Ching, and his surname or the name of his family was L: he was of mean parentage and an illegitimate son at least, our historians so affirm. He had reigned twenty-five years when he gained possession of the whole empire. Hitherto he had borne the name of Tsin wáng ching: he now, on becoming universal monarch of the whole world as he supposed, took the name
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