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Show 27 A General Defcription o cerns Amongft the reft a Law was m de, that no perfon of what q ality foeve fhould be admitted to offer to the Gods, but the E perour only ; fo orea cfieem they hadin thofe days f Ecclefiaftical Employments, ha to be exercifed by any but the greatef Princes No {ooner was Chuenbions de d, but his Nephew Cons fuc eede his Predeceflors, very eminen e and goodnef {en Emperour 2435 years before Chr fts deat month of her Marriage called Yuus, having firlt feen i hey fleep a red Dragon, whic eld by the Chi nefes for a fign of great profperity ed Chens. Thisla was pFeferred to the Throne by is Father Cons before all the reft, b obferve by him to be th moff inclined to vertue and goodnef ma was much miftaken ;5 for he wa no fooner in the --------- be g1ven to he by the Gods, through Importuni y of Prayer, having been alw ys barren before The third Woman had a Ch;l in the fourt -- ------- . Was very rare in thofe days, and ad four Sons by them ; one of th m he procured by performing ome promife to the fuprem Emperour of Heav:;u Another of his Wives |bore a Son cal ed Kiuns, who was faid alfo t pr they were ra him, bein e married four Wive Whicl hrone, but ke fellinto all man ner of Debauchery, giving himf lf up fomuch to Women an neglected the Affairs of the Stat And being often admonifhe to take better c re of his Government Drinking, that h by the Magiftrate but continuing fRill in his lewdn fs The Hiftorical Books of thofe Parts mention, that d ring his Government, th Sun did not {et for the fpace of ten days, and ageneral fear offefled the people that the world would have been deftroyed by a general Co flagration, in regar there had hapned feveral great Fires at that time. Th y likewife repoet, that th {ame time {everal ftrange Monflers, as Snakes and Dr gons crept out from unde the ground, and that this Vaus in thefe difmal times, and not ithftanding all thof dread ul Accidents his Subjeds, that h carried himfelf with fo much piety and care for th was looked upon by every body as the Radeeme verer of his Country To defcend o Particular Aftrology, being infiru&e perfons more the 1 g therein by th two Famous Men, Hius and Howus expert in that $cience; he was only em nent fo forthwith new modelled the Governm nt, and infix Judicatures or Benches o Jultice, to wit, Sipn, Hopn mpn and Humpu Whe 6 th Pinipu, Cumpy of this Emperour, he was very much addi&ed o khowledge and induftry5 for his Wife the mperefs taught other women how t breed and raife Silk-worms, and the Art of prep ring and weaving of Silk. Whe he had thus civilizedythe people, by his own nd his Wifes inftruions to th knowledge of ManufaGu res, h troduce ordinaril welfare o and Deli : o - n-g th Subjets (whohad been for the moft art governed by juft and vertuous Prip ces) judged that he was unworthy to raign an longer, fo that they depofed hi in the ninth year of his Raign, and fet up his Broth r Yass in his place This Yaus, who began to raign in the year 357 before Ghrifts Birth, and governed 9o years, is renowned in all the Chin fe Hiftories for a moft vertuoy Prince : And certainly if regard be had to he greatnefs of his AQions, and th whole courfe of his moft exemplary life, he m y, for honourable Atchievements be compared with the beft of Princes that eve {wayed ‘that Scepter. ' A certai Book called Xu, publifhed in his Raign, men ions in fhort his Fame; in thef words : The Noble and Heroick A&ions of ¥ s h ve' filled the whole Worl with Admiration ; fuch was his extraordinary dilig nce, and efteemed of ever body according to his Worth, Underftanding, Civi ity,and quicknefs of apprehen{ion, that all per{onsefteemed him according to the gra deur of his merit, and fuc his good Fortune, that whatfoever he undertook, was brou ht to pafs by him |