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NYWJ.738.001
6 Feb 1738:22 (222)
[In "The Continuation of the Morals of Confucius", after 3.5
columns:] Yao had all the excellent qualities desirable in a
Prince: . . . [6.5 lines] He delighted in musick, but it was
a grave, modest and pious musick, he detested nothing so
much as songs wherein modesty and civility were blemisht.
'Twas not a capricious humour that made him dislike these
sorts of songs, 'twas the desire he had of rendering himself
in all things pleasing unto heaven. . . [10 more lines]
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