 Therefore his fame overspreads the Middle kingdom, and extends to all barbarous tribes. Wherever ships and carriages reach ; wherever the strength of man penetrates; wherever the heavens, overshadow and. the earth sustains ; wherever the sun and moon...  Life and Teachings of Confucius - Page 53by JAMES LEGGER D.D. - 1867Full view - About this book
 | James Legge - China - 1861
...wherever the heavens overshadow and the earth sustains; wherever the sun and moon shine; wherever frosts and dews fall: — all who have blood and breath unfeignedly...Hence it is said, — " He is the equal of Heaven." CHAPTER XXXII. 1. It is only the individual possessed of ^the most entire sincerity that can exist... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1861
...and moon shine; wherever frosts and dews fall: — all who have blood and breath unfeignedly hon our and love him. Hence it is said, — " He is the equal of Heaven," CHAPTER XXXII. 1. It is only the individual possessed of the most entire sincerity that can exist under... | |
 | Scotland - 1866
...wherever the heavens overshadow, and the earth sustains ; wherever the sun and moon shine ; wherever frost and dews fall — all who have blood and breath unfeignedly honour and love him. He is the equal of Heaven." Remusat, WH Medhurst, and other scholars by no means inclined to exaggerate... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1867 - 432 pages
...his ideal, how earnest is he ! Call him an abyss, how deep is he ! Call him heaven, how vast is he ! Who can know him but he who is indeed quick in apprehension,...all-embracing knowledge, possessing all heavenly virtue ? CHAPTER III. STANDARD RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE EMPIRE. " All who have the government of the... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Mythology - 1867
...wherever the heavens overshadow and the earth sustains, wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever frost and dews fall, all who have blood and breath unfeignedly...him. Hence it is said — He is the equal of Heaven' (p. 53). This is certainly very magnificent phraseology, but it will hardly convey any definite impression... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 432 pages
...sun and moon shine ; wherever frosts and dews fall : all who have blood and breath unfeignedly honor and love him. Hence it is said, " He is the equal of heaven." It is only the individual possessed of the most entire sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - China - 1868 - 395 pages
...wherever the heavens overshadow, and the earth sustains ; wherever the sun and moon shine ; wherever frost and dews fall, — all who have blood and breath unfeignedly honour and love him. He is the equal of Heaven." Re"musat, AV. H. Medhurst, and other scholars by no means inclined to exaggerate... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867
...four seasons in their alternute progress, and to the sun. and moon in their successive shining.' ' Quick in apprehension, clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence and all-embracing knowledge, he was fitted to exercise rule ; magnanimous, generous, benign, and mild, he was fitted to exercise... | |
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869
...cap," the visibilities of the ruler. "He sustains; wherever the sun and moon shine; wherever frosts and dews fall : — all who have blood and breath...Hence it is said, — " He is the equal of Heaven." XXXII. 1. It is only the individual possessed of the most entire sincerity that can exist under heaven,... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1869
...the sun and moon shine, wherever frost and dews fall, all who have blood and breath unfeignedly honor and love him. Hence it is said, — He is the equal of Heaven " (p. 53). This is certainly very magnificent phraseology, but it will hardly convey any definite impression... | |
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