 Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors, is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must...  The Chinese Classics - Page 259by James Legge - 1893Full view - About this book
 | James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...killing at all ? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...The grass must bend when the wind blows across it/' XX. 1. Tsze-chang asked, " What must the officer be, who may be said to be distinguished ? " 2. The... | |
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...killing at 'all ? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it/ " ' Example is not so powerful as Confucius in these and many other passages represented it, but its... | |
 | Ssǔ shu - China - 1870 - 392 pages
...like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it." XX. 1. Tsze-chang asked, "What must the officer be, who may...replied, " It is to be heard of through the state, to be heai'd of through the family." 4. The Master said, "That is notoriety, not distinction. to humble himself... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1875 - 364 pages
...killing at all ? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...The grass must bend when the wind blows across it." XX. 1. Tsze-chang asked, "What must the officer be, who may be said to be distinguished ? " 2. The... | |
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1875 - 424 pages
...the example. What the superior loves, his inferiors will be found to love still more. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows upon it.' The [whole thing] depends on the heir-son." 5. Jen Yew returned with this answer to his commission,... | |
 | James Legge - Philosophy, Chinese - 1875 - 420 pages
...the example. What the superior loves, his inferiors will be found to love still more. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows upon it.' The [whole thing] depends on the heir-son. ;' 5. Jen Yew returned with this answer to his... | |
 | Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - China - 1879 - 302 pages
...good, and the people will be good." And then quoting the words of King Ching, he added, " The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...The grass must bend when the wind blows across it." Thus in every act of his life, whether at home or abroad, whether at table or in bed, whether at study... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1882 - 444 pages
...killing at all ? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...The grass must bend when the wind blows across it." Tsze-chang asked, " What must the officer be, who may be said to be distinguished ?" The Master said,... | |
 | Confucianism - 1882 - 526 pages
...finding its way into every corner and cranny. Confucius once said (Analects 12. 19) : — ' The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows upon it.' In accordance with this, the subject of the hexagram must be understood as the influence... | |
 | James Legge - 1887 - 356 pages
...killing at all ? Let your .evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between...The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.' " ' Example is not so powerful as Confucius in these and many other passages represented it, but its... | |
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