 | James Legge - 1887 - 360 pages
...explicitly on this subject. He tried to evade it. " Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead, and the master said, ' While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? ' The disciple added, ' I ven- / ture to ask about death/ and he was answered, 'While / you do not... | |
 | James Legge - 1887 - 356 pages
...explicitly on this subject. He tried to evade it. " Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead, and the master said, ' While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? ' The disciple added, ' I venture to ask about death/ and he was answered, ' While you do not know... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Religion - 1892 - 356 pages
...the questions, Whence ? Whither ? The life of this world was, he held, sufficient to occupy men. ' Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the ' dead....Death. ' He was answered : While you do not know life, ' how can you know about death ? ' (Analects xi. 11). So ' there were four things which the Master... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1893 - 532 pages
...able to treat him as my son. The fault is not mine; it belongs to you, 0 disciples.' CHAP. XL Chi Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master...able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? ' Chi LA added, ' I venture to ask about gradient to be grief that the man was gone to ; his express... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1893 - 532 pages
...able to treat him as my son. The fault is not mine; it belongs to you, 0 disciples.' CHAP. XI. Chi Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master...able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi LA added, 'I venture to ask about gradient to be grief that the man was gone to whom he looked... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 472 pages
...country is ill-governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of." — Analects, Book VIII. Ke-loo asked about serving the spirits [of the dead]. The Master said : "While you are notable to serve men, how can you serve [their] spirits ?' ' Ke- loo continued : ' ' I venture to ask... | |
 | Edith Jemima Simcox - China - 1894 - 576 pages
...and spiritual beings. When a disciple asked him about serving the Spirits of the dead, he answered : "While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?" (Analects, xi, II). And when the indiscreet scholar proceeded "to ask about death : " "While you do... | |
 | Adele Marion Fielde - China - 1894 - 354 pages
...foremost of his disciples once asked him about the service of the spirits of the dead, and he replied, " While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits ? " The disciple went on, saying, " I venture to ask about death," and he was answered, "While you... | |
 | Confucius - Ethics - 1895 - 146 pages
...men to do to me I also wish not to do to men. Confucian An., Kung Yay Chang (ch. xi.). 81 September. Ke Loo asked about serving the spirits of the dead....able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?" KeLoo added, "I venture to ask about death." He was answered, ' ' While you do not know life, how can... | |
 | 1897 - 918 pages
...the Master taught — letters, ethics, devotion of soul, and truthfulness. — Ibid, p. 158. Ki Lu rch, on account s.-rve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Ki I,i added, "I venture to ask about death ?" He was... | |
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Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death? 
