 | Hui-li - 1911 - 278 pages
...manners and contented — and sought neither honour nor preferment. Anticipating the decay and fall of the Sui dynasty, he buried himself in the study...declined all magisterial duties on the plea of ill-health ; so he remained in retirement, much to the admiration of his acquaintances. He had four sons, of whom... | |
 | Huili - 1911 - 322 pages
...manners and contented — and sought neither honour nor preferment. Anticipating the decay and fall of the Sui dynasty, he buried himself in the study...all magisterial duties on the plea of ill-health; so he remained in retirement, much to the admiration of his acquaintances. He had four sons, of whom... | |
 | Frances Wood - 2002 - 274 pages
...his manners and contented - and sought neither honour nor preferment. Anticipating the decay and fall of the Sui dynasty, he buried himself in the study...offers of provincial and district offices were pressed upon him, which he persistently refused; he declined all magisterial duties on the plea of ill-health;... | |
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... finely lined eyebrows, and bright eyes. He wore his dress large, and his girdle was full, loving to be recognised as a scholar. Born in those times, and a man of a remote district, he was simple in his manners and contented — and sought neither... 