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See also:LEGGE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1815-1897) , See also:British See also:Chinese See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Huntly, See also:Aberdeenshire, in 1815, and educated at See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:College, See also:Aberdeen. After studying at the Highbury Theological College, See also:London, he went in 1839 as a missionary to the Chinese, but, as See also:China was not yet open to Europeans, he remained at Malacca three years, in See also:charge of the Anglo-Chinese College there. The College was subsequently moved to Hong-See also:Kong, where Legge lived for See also:thirty years. Impressed'with the See also:necessity of missionaries being able to comprehend the ideas and culture of the Chinese, he began in 1841 a See also:translation in many volumes of the Chinese See also:classics, a monumental task admirably executed and completed a few years before his See also:death. In 187o he was made an LL.D. of Aberdeen and in 1884 of See also:Edinburgh University. In 1875 several gentlemen connected with the China See also:trade suggested to the university of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford a See also:Chair of Chinese See also:Language and Literature to be occupied by Dr Legge. The university responded liberally, Corpus Christi College contributed the emoluments of a fellowship, and the chair was constituted in 1876. In addition to his other See also:work Legge wrote The See also:Life and Teaching of See also:Confucius (1867); The Life and Teaching of See also:Mencius (1875); The Religions of China (188o); and other books on Chinese literature and See also:religion. He died at Oxford on the 29th of See also:November 1897.
End of Article: LEGGE, JAMES (1815-1897)
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