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  1 1 |     counsels to profit my kingdom?'~3. Mencius replied, 'Why must
  2 1 |          they do not find pleasure.~3. 'It is said in the Book
  3 1 |           the neighboring kingdoms.~3. 'If the seasons of husbandry
  4 1 |             There is no difference!~3. 'Is there any difference
  5 1 |        attain to the royal dignity.~3. 'If Your Majesty will indeed
  6 2 |             united under one sway."~3. '"Who can so unite it?"~
  7 2 |            about royal government.'~3. The king said, 'What virtue
  8 3 |                             Chapter 3~1. Chwang Pâ'o, seeing Mencius,
  9 3 |        manners of the present age.'~3. Mencius said, 'If your
 10 3 |         they looked on it as small?~3. 'When I first arrived at
 11 3 |         protection his own kingdom.~3. 'It is said in the Book
 12 3 |     themselves, they also do wrong.~3. 'When a ruler rejoices
 13 3 |          then do not pull it down.'~3. The king said, 'May I hear
 14 3 |           king said, 'Dismiss him.'~3. Mencius again said, 'If
 15 4 |             employing them at all?'~3. The reply was, 'The ruler
 16 4 |            his sovereign to death?'~3. Mencius said, 'He who outrages
 17 4 |           taking possession of it?'~3. Mencius replied, 'If the
 18 4 |       coming will be our reviving!"~3. 'Now the ruler of Yen was
 19 4 |          you, 0 prince, blame them.~3. 'If you will put in practice
 20 4 |       matter of necessity with him.~3. 'If you do good, among
 21 4 |           it. Let him not quit it."~3. 'I ask you, prince, to
 22 4 |         being poor and being rich.'~3. After this, Yo-chang saw
 23 5 |          and Yen, and nothing more,~3. 'Some one asked Tsang Hsî,
 24 5 |         period of life than I did.'~3. Ch'âu asked, 'Is there
 25 6 |             to stand in awe of him.~3. 'It is said in the Book
 26 6 |          goods in his market-place.~3. 'If, at his frontier-passes,
 27 6 |      anything go round in the palm.~3. 'When I say that all men
 28 6 |             this is being not wise.~3. 'From the want of benevolence
 29 6 |            he bowed to the speaker.~3. 'The great Shun had a still
 30 6 |             his purity to go away.'~3. Mencius said, 'Po-î was
 31 7 |    situation afforded by the Earth.~3. 'There is a city, whose
 32 7 |       should I not pay this visit?'~3. In the mean time, the king
 33 7 |             right in all the cases.~3. 'When I was in Sung, I
 34 7 |             to me Chü-hsin to act.'~3. 'Here,' said Mencius, '
 35 7 |           his office and went away.~3. The people of Ch'î said, '
 36 8 |           feelings of their hearts.~3. 'If prevented by statutory
 37 8 |         Majesty from that feeling.'~3. Ch'an Chiâ accordingly
 38 8 |       indeed, it is what I desire.'~3. Another day, the king said
 39 8 |           upon his stool and slept.~3. The visitor was displeased,
 40 8 |           Mencius of these remarks.~3. Mencius said, 'How should
 41 8 |          time, and this is another.~3. 'It is a rule that a true
 42 8 |     declined to receive any salary.~3. 'Immediately after, there
 43 9 |          reference to Yâo and Shun.~3. When the prince was returning
 44 9 |            the mass of the people.'~3. Zan Yû reported the execution
 45 9 |           sowing again the grain." ~3. 'The way of the people
 46 10|            the subjects of a sage.'~3. When Ch'an Hsiang saw Hsü
 47 10|          doctrines discountenance.'~3. The disciple Hsü informed
 48 11|         what can be thought of him?~3. 'Moreover, that sentence, "
 49 11|       course is the rule for women.~3. 'To dwell in the wide house
 50 11|          show a too great urgency?'~3. Mencius answered, 'The
 51 11|       notwithstanding is improper.'~3. Mencius answered, 'If you
 52 11|              has reference to this.~3. 'Because of his murder
 53 12|            not improper to see him.~3. 'Yang Ho wished to get
 54 12|            an end of the practice."~3. 'If you know that the thing
 55 12|          now a period of confusion.~3. 'In the time of Yâo, the
 56 12|             so only can it be done.~3. 'Now, an earthworm eats
 57 13|          ways of the ancient kings.~3. 'Hence we have the saying: -- "
 58 13|            his, injures his people.~3. 'Confucius said, "There
 59 13|           of States are determined.~3. 'If the sovereign be not
 60 13|         recognition and submission.~3. 'It is said in the Book
 61 13|        married to the prince of Wû.~3. 'Now the small States imitate
 62 13|             does to wash my feet." ~3. 'Confucius said, "Hear
 63 13|       beasts fly to the wilderness.~3. 'Accordingly, as the otter
 64 13| righteousness is his straight path.~3. 'Alas for them, who leave
 65 14|          sincere is the way of man.~3. Never has there been one
 66 14|           the sons go to any other?~3. 'Were any of the princes
 67 14|            enough for such a crime.~3. 'Therefore, those who are
 68 14|            you will not rescue it!'~3. Mencius answered, 'A drowning
 69 14|            other, the case is evil.~3. 'The ancients exchanged
 70 14|             the root of all others.~3. 'The philosopher Tsang,
 71 14|         before he visit his elder?'~3. Yo-chang said, 'I have
 72 15|            wild tribes on the west.~3. 'Those regions were distant
 73 15|             practice of government.~3. 'When in the eleventh month
 74 15|             thus go into mourning?'~3. Mencius replied,'The admonitions
 75 15|           he found in it to praise.~3. 'But suppose that the water
 76 15|            to where they came from.~3. 'King Wan looked on the
 77 15|        books of the same character.~3. 'The subject of the Ch'
 78 16|      knowledge would also be great.~3. 'There is heaven so high;
 79 16|              thereby slighting me.'~3. Mencius having heard of
 80 16|            shows respect to others.~3. 'He who loves others is
 81 16|              Confucius praised him.~3. Mencius said, 'Yü, Chî,
 82 16|            any one of these things?~3. 'Now between Chang and
 83 16|           to guard the State with?'~3. Mencius said, 'The philosophers
 84 17|            parents do not love me?"~3. 'The Tî caused his own
 85 17|        marry his daughters to him.'~3. Wan Chang said, 'His parents
 86 17|           with affection and love?'~3. Wan Chang said, 'I venture
 87 17|            people of Châu was left.~3. 'Of all which a filial
 88 18|            to him,' was the answer.~3. '" Heaven gave it to him:" --
 89 18|            the ordinance of Heaven.~3. 'In the case of a private
 90 18|           nor taken a single straw.~3. 'T'ang sent persons with
 91 18|             any ordering of Heaven.~3. 'When Confucius, being
 92 18|            Hsî did not remonstrate.~3. 'When he knew that the
 93 19|        heavy charge of the kingdom.~3. 'Hûi of Liû-hsiâ was not
 94 19|            general outline of them.~3. 'The SON OF HEAVEN constituted
 95 19|           his friendship with them.~3. 'Not only has the chief
 96 19|         presents are not declined.'~3. Wan Chang asked again, '
 97 20|       riches and prefer to be poor.~3. 'What office will be in
 98 20|       people in their necessities.'~3. Chang pursued, 'Why is
 99 20|             go and see the prince.'~3. 'And,' added Mencius, '
100 20|            and changed countenance.~3. Mencius said, 'Let not
101 21|          all water flows downwards.~3. 'Now by striking water
102 21|               Kâo again said 'Yes.'~3. 'Very well,' pursued Mencius. '
103 21| righteousness that it is external.'~3. Mencius said, 'There is
104 21|            is said to be internal.'~3. The other objected, 'Suppose
105 21|         they loved what was cruel."~3. 'Some say, "The nature
106 21|        business in reference to it.~3. 'Thus all things which
107 21|        feelings proper to humanity?~3. 'Therefore, if it receive
108 22|      goodness, of what avail is it?~3. 'Now chess-playing is but
109 22|            I will not avoid danger.~3. 'If among the things which
110 22|          not know to seek it again!~3. 'When men's fowls and dogs
111 22|           the great is a great man.~3. 'Here is a plantation-keeper,
112 22|          came to them in its train.~3. 'The men of the present
113 22|             he can make mean again.~3. 'It is said in the Book
114 23|             is the more important.'~3. The man pursued, 'If the
115 23|            to realize that saying?'~3. Mencius answered him, '
116 23|         to-day he says, "I can lift 3,000 catties' weight," and
117 23|            s criticism on the ode.'~3. Ch'âu then said, 'How is
118 23|          you going?' asked Mencius.~3. K'ang replied, 'I have
119 23|           obtain some instruction.'~3. He asked accordingly, '
120 23|            pursue the same course?'~3. K'wan pursued, 'In the
121 24|            against the three kings.~3. 'Of the five chiefs the
122 24|          the times of Yâo and Shun.~3. 'Though by a single battle
123 24|           him is to enrich a Chieh.~3. 'Although a prince, pursuing
124 24|            would be that of the Mo.~3. 'In a country of ten thousand
125 24|     according to the laws of water.~3. 'He therefore made the
126 24|            much information?' 'No.'~3. 'What then made you so
127 24|     practice, they would leave him.~3. 'The second case was that
128 24|        supplies his incompetencies.~3. 'Men for the most part
129 25|            the way to serve Heaven.~3. 'When neither a premature
130 25|         beneath a precipitous wall.~3. 'Death sustained in the
131 25|      sincerity on self-examination.~3. 'If one acts with a vigorous
132 25|          shame to come into action.~3. 'When one differs from
133 25|            one do so, be the same.'~3. Kâu-ch'ien said, 'What
134 25|       knowing who makes them do so.~3. 'Wherever the superior
135 25|          much as good instructions.~3. 'Good government is feared
136 25|          love their elder brothers.~3. 'Filial affection for parents
137 25|         securing that tranquillity.~3. 'There are those who are
138 25|                this is one delight.~3. 'That, when looking up,
139 25|             his nature is not here.~3. What belongs by his nature
140 25|          were secured against want.~3. 'The expression, "The chief
141 25|          more than can be consumed.~3. 'The people cannot live
142 26|             an orifice illuminates.~3. 'Flowing water is a thing
143 26|              is a disciple of Chih.~3. 'If you want to know what
144 26|              he would have done it.~3. 'Tsze-mo holds a medium
145 26|             they are not virtuous?'~3. Mencius replied, 'If they
146 26|        replied, 'To exalt his aim.'~3. Tien asked again, 'What
147 26|       simply have apprehended him.'~3. 'But would not Shun have
148 26|            wide house of the world!~3. 'When the prince of Lû
149 26|       before any offering of gifts.~3. 'If there be honouring
150 26|          piety and fraternal duty.'~3. At that time, the mother
151 26|      descends like seasonable rain.~3. 'There are some whose virtue
152 26|           rule for drawing the bow.~3. 'The superior man draws
153 27|     passages only, which I believe.~3. '"The benevolent man has
154 27|            no enemy in the kingdom.~3. When T'ang was executing
155 27|           be thrown into confusion.~3. 'Without the great principles
156 27|             become a great officer.~3. 'When a prince endangers
157 27|             from the mouths of men.~3. 'It is said, in the Book
158 27|            is nearly worn through.'~3. Mencius said, 'How can
159 28|           good man," "A real man?"'~3. The reply was, 'A man who
160 28|            be called into practice.~3. 'If he can give full development
161 28|           is thereby tranquillized.~3. 'The disease of men is
162 28|         desire to do what is right.~3. 'The superior man performs
163 28|         thought of the next class.'~3. 'I venture to ask what
164 28|      transmitted, and so knew them.~3. 'From king Wan to Confucius