The Life and Teaching of Confucius: With Explanatory NotesN. Trübner, 1887 - 338 pages |
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Page 113
... commentator of the second century , says that such a course would be " incorrect in point of propriety . " This " propriety " was a great stumbling - block in the way of Confucius . His morality was the result of the balancings of his ...
... commentator of the second century , says that such a course would be " incorrect in point of propriety . " This " propriety " was a great stumbling - block in the way of Confucius . His morality was the result of the balancings of his ...
Page 118
... , and was much esteemed by the people and princes of the time . With regard to the scope of this chapter , there is some truth in what the commentator Woo II . 1. The Master said , " If the 118 [ BK I. CONFUCIAN ANALECTS .
... , and was much esteemed by the people and princes of the time . With regard to the scope of this chapter , there is some truth in what the commentator Woo II . 1. The Master said , " If the 118 [ BK I. CONFUCIAN ANALECTS .
Page 122
... commentators are perplexed with this chapter . Holding of Confucius , that " He was born with knowledge , and did what was right with entire ease , " they say that he here conceals his sagehood , and puts himself on the level of common ...
... commentators are perplexed with this chapter . Holding of Confucius , that " He was born with knowledge , and did what was right with entire ease , " they say that he here conceals his sagehood , and puts himself on the level of common ...
Page 126
... commentators are agreed that the things here asked about were not what we would call contingent or indifferent events . He merely says that the great principles of morality and relations of society had continued the same , and would ...
... commentators are agreed that the things here asked about were not what we would call contingent or indifferent events . He merely says that the great principles of morality and relations of society had continued the same , and would ...
Page 141
... commentators make the subject of the former clause to be the deportment and manners of the sage and his ordinary discourses , but the verb " to hear " is an in- appropriate term with reference to the former . These things , however ...
... commentators make the subject of the former clause to be the deportment and manners of the sage and his ordinary discourses , but the verb " to hear " is an in- appropriate term with reference to the former . These things , however ...
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Page 48 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 190 - 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.
Page 264 - 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 139 - 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 109 - Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you,
Page 45 - In the Book of Poetry, it is said, ' In hewing an axe-handle, in hewing an axe-handle, the pattern is not far off.
Page 139 - What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men.
Page 215 - What do you say concerning the principle that injury should be recompensed with kindness?' 2. The Master said, With what then will you recompense kindness? 3. 'Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Page 50 - ... quick in apprehension, 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, firm, and enduring, fitted to maintain a firm hold; self-adjusted, grave, never swerving from the Mean, and correct, fitted to command reverence; accomplished, distinctive, concentrative, and searching, fitted to exercise discrimination.
Page 269 - After exerting himself in this way for a long time, he will sudilenlv find himself possessed of a wide and far-reaching penetration. Then, the qualities of all things, whether external or internal, the subtle or the coarse, will all be apprehended, and the mind, in its entire substance and its relations to things, will be perfectly intelligent. This is called the investigation of things. This is called the perfection of knowledge. VI. 1. What is meant by "making the thoughts sincere...