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 See also:

• LEGGE
• JAMES LEGGE (1815-1897)

LEGGE (1815-1897)  , See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• HUNTLY
• HUNTLY, EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF

Huntly, See also:

• ABERDEENSHIRE

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 (Collegium)

College, See also:

• ABERDEEN
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE GORDON, 1ST EARL O (1637-1720)
• ABERDEEN, GEORGE HAMILTON GORDON, 4TH EARL

Aberdeen . After studying at the Highbury Theological College, See also:

• LONDON

London, he went in 1839 as a missionary to the Chinese, but, as See also:

• CHINA

China was not yet open to Europeans, he remained at Malacca three years, in See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge of the Anglo-Chinese College there . The College was subsequently moved to Hong-See also:

• KONG

Kong, where See also:

• LEGGE
• LEGGE, JAMES (1815-1897)

Legge lived for See also:

• THIRTY

thirty years . Impressed'with the See also:

• NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of missionaries being able to comprehend the ideas and culture of the Chinese, he began in 1841 a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation in many volumes of the Chinese See also:

• CLASSICS

classics, a monumental task admirably executed and completed a few years before his See also:

• DEATH

death . In 187o he was made an LL.D. of Aberdeen and in 1884 of See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh University . In 1875 several gentlemen connected with the China See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

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 (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

Chair of Chinese See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

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

work Legge wrote The See also:

• LIFE

Life and Teaching of See also:

• CONFUCIUS [K'ung tsze] (550 or 551-478 B.C.)

Confucius (1867); The Life and Teaching of See also:

• MENCIUS

Mencius (1875); The Religions of China (188o); and other books on Chinese literature and See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion . He died at Oxford on the 29th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1897 .