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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. "
The Chinese Classics - Page 153
by James Legge - 1867
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The New Calendar of Great Men: Biographies of the 558 Worthies of All Ages ...

Frederic Harrison - Biography - 1892 - 674 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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The Chinese Classics, Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1893 - 532 pages
...positive enunciation of 'the golden role.' 194 CONFUCIAN ANALECTS. BOOK VII. SHU R. CHAPTBB I. The Master said, 'A transmitter and not a maker, believing...ancients, I venture to compare myself with our old P'ftng.' CHAP. II. The Master said, ' The silent treasuring up of knowledge ; learning without satiety...
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The Chinese Classics, Volume 1

James Legge - China - 1893 - 532 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 Fang1.' Confucius cannot be thought to speak of himself in these declarations more highly than he ought...
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Progress, Volume 3

1897 - 918 pages
...but from love, and thus we can love the crooked, and so all men.) (8) The Humility of Kongtze.— The nd in Israel, all — Ibid, p /5j. The Master said, *'The sage and the man of perfect virtue; how dare I rank myself...
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Was Israel Ever in Egypt?, Or, A Lost Tradition

George Henry Bateson Wright - Bible - 1895 - 408 pages
...eminence. His doing so would have been in harmony with the character which he gave of himself as ' a transmitter, and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients,' and with his labours on the classic of poetry and on the Ch'un Ts'ew."2 He also quotes on the special...
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Dawn on the Hills of T'ang, Or, China as a Mission Field

Harlan Page Beach - Missions - 1898 - 210 pages
...failed in the mutter of His attitude toward the past, as described by himself, is found in the words, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients." This meant the restoration of ancient life and ceremonial in person, family, and state, and to accomplish...
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Dawn on the Hills of T'ang: Or, Missions in China

Harlan Page Beach - China - 1898 - 212 pages
...and righteousness. His attitude toward the past, as described by himself, is found in the words, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients." This meant the restoration of ancient life and ceremonial in person, family, and state, and to accomplish...
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Geography

Harlan Page Beach - Atlases - 1901 - 592 pages
...Analects " is the head-line which might be truthfully written over every page of Chinese history, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients." Conservatism, however, has been of some advantage to the nation ; since great essentials have after...
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Life and Light for Woman, Volume 31

Congregational churches - 1901 - 698 pages
...beliefs and virtues he never ceased to extol and to make the basis of his system. He called himself "a transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients." To this object he gave himself with phenomenal perseverance, courage and zeal. Humbly he says, " I...
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Dawn on the Hills of Tʻang; Or, Missions in China

Harlan Page Beach - Missions - 1901 - 224 pages
...and righteousness. His attitude toward the past, as described by himself, is found in the words, " A transmitter and not a maker, believing in and loving the ancients." This meant the restoration of ancient life and ceremonial in person, family, and state, and to accomplish...
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