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The Chinese Classics: Life and teachings of Confucius - Page 316
by James Legge - 1869
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The Chinese Classics, Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1893 - 528 pages
...clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence, and allembracing knowledge, fitted to exercise rule ; magnanimous, generous, benign, and mild, fitted...and active as a fountain, sending forth in their due season his virtues. the co-equal of Heaven and Earth, in the manner here described.' Considering the...
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The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical ..., Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence, and, all-embracing knowledge, fitted to exercise rule ; magnanimous generous, benign, and mild, fitted...to command reverence ; accomplished, distinctive, conceutrative, and searching, fitted to exercise discrimination. 2. All-embracing is he and vast, deep...
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The Chinese Classics: With a Translation, Critical and Exegetical ..., Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1861 - 536 pages
...clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence, and, all-embracing knowledge, fitted to exercise rule; magnanimous generous, benign, and mild, fitted to exercise forbearance; impulsive, energetic, linn, and enduring, fitted to maintain a firm hold; self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the Mean,...
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The Chinese Classics

James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...benign, and mild, he was fitted to exercise forbearance; impulsive, energetic, firm, and enduring, he was fitted to maintain a firm hold ; self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the Mean, and correct, he was fitted to command reverence ; accomplished, distinctive, concentrative, and searching, he was...
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Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 1

Friedrich Max Müller - Mythology - 1867 - 468 pages
...and mild, he was fitted to exercise forbearance ; impulsive, energetic, firm, and enduring, he was fitted to maintain a firm hold; self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the Mean, and correct, he was fitted to command reverence; accomplished, distinctive, concentrative, and searching, he was...
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The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Volume 3

Christianity - 1871 - 402 pages
...forbearance ; im pulsive, energetic, firm and enduring, fitted to maintain a firm hold; self adjusted, grave, never swerving from the mean, and correct,...and searching, fitted to exercise discrimination. — The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 6

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence, and all-embracing knowledge, fitted to exercise rule ; magnanimous, generous, benign and mild, fitted...and searching, fitted to exercise discrimination. All-einbracing ia he, and vast, deep and active as a fountain, sending forth in their due season his...
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The Chinese Classics: with a Translation, Critical and Exegetical ..., Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1861 - 540 pages
...and mild, he was fitted to exercise forbearance ; impulsive, energetic, firm, and enduring, he was fitted to maintain a firm hold ; self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the Mean, and correct, he was fitted to command reverence ; accomplished, distinctive, concentrative, and searching, he was...
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The Chinese Classics: Life and teachings of Confucius.-v.2. The life and ...

James Legge - China - 1875 - 364 pages
...clear in discernment, of far-reaching intelligence and all-embracing knowledge, fitted to exercise rule ; magnanimous, generous, benign, and mild, fitted to exercise forbearance ; impulsive, energetic, fii-m, and enduring, fitted to maintain a firm hold ; self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the...
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Confucianism and Taouism

Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - China - 1879 - 302 pages
...discernment, of far-reaching intelligence and allembracing knowledge, fitted to exercise rule; magna-' nimous, generous, benign, and mild, fitted to exercise forbearance...and searching, fitted to exercise discrimination. All-embracing is he and vast, deep and active as a fountain, sending forth in their due seasons his...
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