The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Prolegomena, and Copious Indexes, Volume 1At the author's, 1861 - China |
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... replied Confucius , " how is it that you know my thoughts ? " " I have often , " said Tsze - sze , " heard from you the lesson , that when the father has gather- ed and prepared the firewood , if the son cannot carry the bundle , he is ...
... replied Confucius , " how is it that you know my thoughts ? " " I have often , " said Tsze - sze , " heard from you the lesson , that when the father has gather- ed and prepared the firewood , if the son cannot carry the bundle , he is ...
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... replied , ' You give away so rashly , as if you were casting your things into a ditch . Poor as I am , I cannot think of my body as a ditch , and do not presume to accept your gift . " 11 Tsze - sze's mother married again , after Le's ...
... replied , ' You give away so rashly , as if you were casting your things into a ditch . Poor as I am , I cannot think of my body as a ditch , and do not presume to accept your gift . " 11 Tsze - sze's mother married again , after Le's ...
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... replied , " If I should wish to requite your princely favour with money and silks , your treasuries are already full of them , and I am poor . If I should wish to requite it with good words , I am afraid that what I should say would not ...
... replied , " If I should wish to requite your princely favour with money and silks , your treasuries are already full of them , and I am poor . If I should wish to requite it with good words , I am afraid that what I should say would not ...
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... replied , ' No , that is not my feeling . When I cultivate what is good , I wish men to know it , for when they know it and praise me , I feel encouraged to be more zealous in the cultivation . This is what I desire , and am not able to ...
... replied , ' No , that is not my feeling . When I cultivate what is good , I wish men to know it , for when they know it and praise me , I feel encouraged to be more zealous in the cultivation . This is what I desire , and am not able to ...
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... replied , " It is so . My hus- band's father was killed here by a tiger , and my husband also ; and now my son has met the same fate . " Confucius asked her why she did not remove from the place , and on her answering , " There is here ...
... replied , " It is so . My hus- band's father was killed here by a tiger , and my husband also ; and now my son has met the same fate . " Confucius asked her why she did not remove from the place , and on her answering , " There is here ...
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Page lxv - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page cxxiv - Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 222 - States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Page 128 - If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.
Page lix - While there are no stirrings of pleasure, anger, sorrow, or joy, the mind may be said to be in the state of Equilibrium. When those feelings have been stirred, and they act in their due degree, there ensues what may be called the state of Harmony. This Equilibrium is the great root from which grow all the human actings in the world, and this Harmony is the universal path which they all should pursue. Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout...
Page 58 - Now the man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others. 3. 'To be able to judge of others by what is nigh in ourselves; — this may be called the art of virtue.
Page 221 - States. Wishing to order well their States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts.
Page lxviii - 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 shine ; wherever frosts and dews fall : — all who have blood and breath unfeignedly honour and love him. Hence it is said, — "He is the equal of Heaven.
Page lxii - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 115 - Chung-kung asked about perfect virtue. The Master said, "It is, when you go abroad, to behave to every one as if you were receiving a great guest ; to employ the people as if you were assisting at a great sacrifice ; not to do to others as you would not wish done to yourself ; to have no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family.