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Heavenly revenue will come to a perpetual end.”
Shun also used the same language in giving charge
to Yu.

T 'ang said, “I the child Li, presume to use a
dark-coloured victim, and presume to announce
to Thee, O most great and sovereign God, that the
sinner I dare not pardon, and thy ministers, O God,
I do not keep in obscurity. The examination of them
is by thy mind, O God. If, in my person, I commit
offences, they are not to be attributed to you, the
people of the myriad regions. If you in the myriad
regions commit offences, these offences must rest on
my person.”

Chau conferred great gifts, and the good were
enriched. “Although he has his near relatives, they
are not equal to my virtuous men. The people are
throwing blame upon me, the one man.”

He carefully attended to the weights and
measures, examined the body of the laws, restored

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