 | Aaron Goodrich - America - 1874 - 426 pages
...withal what modesty ! " To this I have not attained," says the sage of his golden rule ; and, again, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I may compare myself to our old P'ang." of the soldier or of the statesman, to leave such valuable records... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1875 - 364 pages
...the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity and earnest in seeking it there." " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang."3 Confucius cannot be thought to speak of himself in these 1 " The Chinese," vol. II. p. 45.... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1882 - 444 pages
...principles of our nature, and the benevolent exercise of them to others. This and nothing more." The Master said, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang." ;" The silent treasuring up of knowledge, learning without satiety, and instructing others without... | |
 | Bible - 1882 - 830 pages
...says Professor Douglas, " was his humility ; he scrupulously disclaimed all originality of doctrine. ' A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang,' was his description of himself. Nowhere did he depart from the language here used, and he resisted... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Apologetics - 1884 - 704 pages
...the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.' ' A transmitter, and not a maker, believing in and loving...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang.' " — [From the VIIth Book of the Analects.] Legge: "Chinese Classics": Proleg. cv : sec. n. : § 4.... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Apologetics - 1884 - 698 pages
...the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.' ' A transmitter, and not a maker, believing in and loving...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang.' " — [From the Vilth Book of the Analects.] Legge: "Chinese Classics": Proleg. cv : sec. n. : § 4.... | |
 | Hampden C. DuBose - Buddhism - 1886 - 470 pages
...which they had inculcated, not to be the maker of a new code or the founder of a new school. He says, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old Pang." » The Musician. — The pictorial life of Confucius, which, is engraved in stone upon the walls of... | |
 | Universalism - 1886 - 540 pages
...born in possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. A transmitter, and not a maker ; believing in and loving the ancients." 6 His influence on his countrymen, both for good and for •evil, has been immeasurable. Directly he... | |
 | James Legge - 1887 - 356 pages
...the possession of knowledge ; I am one who is fond of antiquity and earnest in seeking it there." " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang."3 Confucius cannot be thought to speak of himself in these 1 " The Chinese," vol. II. p. 45.... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Biography - 1892 - 890 pages
...and in putting them into the shape in which they now stand. He said of himself always that "he was a transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients." Unlike the course of intellectual growth in other peoples, the primitive Fetichism of China had never... | |
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A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ang. 
