 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...  The Chinese Classics - Page 266by James Legge - 1867Full view - About this book
 | 1866 - 812 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...they first extended to the utmost their knowledge." It is this relation between learning and harmony, between knowledge and the sage, that has afforded... | |
 | England - 1866 - 848 pages
...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 sin1 cere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 444 pages
...their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first thought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - China - 1867 - 444 pages
...hearts. AVishing to rectify their hearts, they first thought to be sincere in their thoughts. AVishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated^ Their persons being... | |
 | Andrew Wilson - China - 1868 - 466 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...they first extended to the utmost their knowledge." It is this relation between learning and harmony, between knowledge and the sage, that has afforded... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 592 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things. It is a special honor of Confucius that he applied his teachings to the benefit of mankind at large,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1893 - 312 pages
...men." " A Systematical Digest of the Doctrines of Confucius," p. 55. See the Great Learning, 4-5, " Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first...extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things " The Chinese Classics, Vol. I : p. 222, Legge's translation. 85 These quotations are from the " Book... | |
 | Japan - 1892 - 210 pages
...men." " A Systematical Digest of the Doctrines of Confucius," p. 55. See the Great Learning, 4-5, " Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first...their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in tbe investigation of things " The Chiuese Classics, Vol. I : p. 222, Legge's translation. 85 These... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1875 - 436 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...of knowledge lay in the investigation of things." — Tu-hio, 4. The Ching- Yung or " Immutable Medium," which is the third volume of the series, is... | |
 | John Russell Amberley (viscount) - Religions - 1876 - 536 pages
...regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their...of knowledge lay in the investigation of things." After a few more verses of text, we come to the "Commentary of the philosopher Tsilng," which is mainly... | |
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