| James Legge - China - 1861 - 536 pages
...announced." CHAPTER XX. Fan Ch'e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome... | |
| James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...he returned to a question as to what constituted wisdom. " To give one's-self earnestly," said he, " to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom."10 At any rate, as by his frequent references to Heaven, instead of following the phraseology... | |
| James Legge - China - 1893 - 528 pages
...announced. CHAP. XX. Fan Ch'ih asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, ' To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, maybe called wisdom.' lie asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, ' The man of virtue makes the... | |
| 1862 - 970 pages
...answer to the question — What constitutes wisdom ? ho said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duty due to men, and while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." Thus, a species of secularism is the only religion which his writings inculcate. They do not even contain... | |
| James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...not be announced/' XX. Fan Ch/e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked ancestral temple. I have coined the word litanist, to come as near to the meaning as possible.... | |
| Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 444 pages
...WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE. Fan Ch'e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, " The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome... | |
| Maria Hall - 1868 - 410 pages
...Self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the mean and correct, he was fitted to command reverence." " To give oneself earnestly to the duties due to men,...respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them," he said, " constituted wisdom." The other class may be represented by his grand predecessor, Mencius,... | |
| James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...not be announced." XX. Fan Ch'e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked ancestral temple. I have coined the word lifanist, to come as near to the meaning as possible.... | |
| Baptists - 1869 - 498 pages
...Fan-Che asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's self earnestly to the duties of men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." It is important to ask whether Confucius, in his whole career, improved upon the light of preceding generations... | |
| James Legge - Chinese literature - 1870 - 398 pages
...not be announced." XX. Fan Ch'e asked what constituted wisdom. The Master said, " To give one's-self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting...beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom." He asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome... | |
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