Chapter

  1 5 |         far superior to Yâo and Shun."~27. 'Tsze-kung said, "
  2 6 |      the speaker.~3. 'The great Shun had a still greater delight
  3 7 |         but the ways of Yâo and Shun. There is therefore no man
  4 9 |  laudatory reference to Yâo and Shun.~3. When the prince was
  5 9 |     said, "What kind of man was Shun? What kind of man am I?
  6 10|       anxious sorrow. He raised Shun to office, and measures
  7 10|        disorder were set forth. Shun committed to Yî the direction
  8 10|  anxious solicitude to the sage Shun, and he appointed Hsieh
  9 10|     anxiety was the not getting Shun. What Shun felt giving him
 10 10|      the not getting Shun. What Shun felt giving him anxiety
 11 10|         it. Princely indeed was Shun! How majestic was he, having
 12 10|       subjects on which Yâo and Shun employed their minds? There
 13 11|      such a proper ground, then Shun's receiving the kingdom
 14 12|       the great inundation.~4. 'Shun employed Yü to reduce the
 15 12|      After the death of Yâo and Shun, the principles that mark
 16 13|       The principles of Yâo and Shun, without a benevolent government,
 17 13|      the one Yâo, and the other Shun. He who does not serve his
 18 13|      not serve his sovereign as Shun served Yâo, does not respect
 19 14|       the greatest of them.~2. 'Shun married without informing
 20 14|      the hands to move.'~2. 'By Shun's completely fulfilling
 21 15|    Chapter 15~1. Mencius said, 'Shun was born in Chû-fang, removed
 22 15|   superior men preserve it.~2. 'Shun clearly understood the multitude
 23 16|     indeed be has. -- He says, "Shun was a man, and I also am
 24 16|        and I also am a man. But Shun became an example to all
 25 16|         Just that he maybe like Shun: -- then only will he stop.
 26 17|    asked Mencius, saying, 'When Shun went into the fields, he
 27 17|         he does not murmur. Was Shun then murmuring against his
 28 17|   Kung-ming Kâo, saying, "As to Shun's going into the fields,
 29 17|       not be so free of sorrow. Shun would say, "I exert my strength
 30 17|        to be prepared, to serve Shun amid the channelled fields.
 31 17|         sovereign designed that Shun should superintend the kingdom
 32 17|         to remove the sorrow of Shun. The possession of beauty
 33 17|         is what men desire, and Shun had for his wives the two
 34 17|        was the rich property of Shun, but this was not sufficient
 35 17|        are what men desire, and Shun had the dignity of being
 36 17|       his parents. In the great Shun I see the case of one whose
 37 17|       illustrated it so well as Shun. How was it that Shun's
 38 17|        as Shun. How was it that Shun's marriage took place without
 39 17| greatest of human relations. If Shun had informed his parents,
 40 17|          Wan Chang said, 'As to Shun's marrying without informing
 41 17|         wives without informing Shun's parents?' Mencius said, '
 42 17|    Chang said, 'His parents set Shun to repair a granary, to
 43 17|      Hsiang then went away into Shun's palace, and there was
 44 17|         s palace, and there was Shun on his couch playing on
 45 17|        time, he blushed deeply. Shun said to him, "There are
 46 17|           I do not know whether Shun was ignorant of Hsiang's
 47 17|        that case, then, did not Shun rejoice hypocritically?'
 48 17|        made him come; therefore Shun sincerely believed him,
 49 17|      his daily business to slay Shun. When Shun was made sovereign,
 50 17|     business to slay Shun. When Shun was made sovereign, how
 51 17|       him?'~2. Wan Chang said, 'Shun banished the superintendent
 52 17|   destitute of benevolence, and Shun raised him to be the prince
 53 17|       and ennoble him. If while Shun himself was sovereign, his
 54 17|       the people? Nevertheless, Shun wished to be continually
 55 17|         as a son by his father. Shun stood with his face to the
 56 17|         also did the same. When Shun saw Kû-sâu, his countenance
 57 17|         Ch'î. When Yâo was old, Shun was associated with him
 58 17|    sovereigns over the people." Shun having been sovereign, and,
 59 17|     Mang said, 'On the point of Shun's not treating Yâo as a
 60 17| sovereign's minister;" ~ -- and Shun had become sovereign. I
 61 17|       was the height of honour. Shun nourished him with the whole
 62 18|     that Yâo gave the throne to Shun?' Mencius said, 'No. The
 63 18|       another.'~2. 'Yes; -- but Shun had the throne. Who gave
 64 18|    great officer. Yâo presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted
 65 18|       it was that Yâo presented Shun to Heaven, and Heaven accepted
 66 18|         throne to another."~7. 'Shun assisted Yâo in the government
 67 18|         mourning was completed, Shun withdrew from the son of
 68 18|        of Yâo, but they went to Shun. Litigants went not to the
 69 18|        of Yâo, but they went to Shun. Singers sang not the son
 70 18|       son of Yâo, but they sang Shun. Therefore I said, "Heaven
 71 18|     inferior to that of Yâo and Shun, and he transmitted it not
 72 18| sovereign, it was given to him. Shun presented Yü to Heaven.
 73 18|    Seventeen years elapsed, and Shun died. When the three years'
 74 18|        withdrew from the son of Shun to Yang-ch'ang. The people
 75 18|      his son, they had followed Shun. Yü presented Yî to Heaven.
 76 18|        equal to his father, and Shun's son not equal to his;
 77 18|      son not equal to his; that Shun assisted Yâo, and Yü assisted
 78 18|   assisted Yâo, and Yü assisted Shun, for many years, conferring
 79 18|     length of time during which Shun, Yü, and Yî assisted in
 80 18|         virtue equal to that of Shun or Yü; and moreover there
 81 18|       the principles of Yâo and Shun. In any matter contrary
 82 18|       the principles of Yâo and Shun?"~4. 'T'ang thrice sent
 83 18|       the principles of Yâo and Shun, had I not better make this
 84 18|     prince a prince like Yâo or Shun, and this people like the
 85 18|       like the people of Yâo or Shun ? Had I not better in my
 86 18|        such benefits as Yâo and Shun conferred, it was as if
 87 18|        the doctrines of Yâo and Shun. I have not heard that he
 88 19|        such benefits as Yâo and Shun conferred, it was as if
 89 19|        as my Friend. As to Wang Shun and Ch'ang Hsî, they serve
 90 19|        to a king or a duke.~5. 'Shun went up to court and saw
 91 19|    sovereign also enjoyed there Shun's hospitality. Alternately
 92 20|      There was Yâo's conduct to Shun: -- He caused his nine sons
 93 20|       to be prepared to support Shun amid the channelled fields,
 94 21|       Kû-sâu there yet appeared Shun; and that with Châu for
 95 23|       do. The course of Yâo and Shun was simply that of filial
 96 23|   unfilial.~5 'Confucius said, "Shun was indeed perfectly filial!
 97 24|         in the times of Yâo and Shun.~3. 'Though by a single
 98 24|      than the system of Yâo and Shun, we shall just have a great
 99 24|       death.'~1. Mencius said, 'Shun rose from among the channelled
100 25|    heaven.'~Mencius said, 'When Shun was living amid the deep
101 26|        virtue, is a disciple of Shun.~2. 'He who rises at cock-crowing,
102 26|     want to know what separates Shun from Chih, it is simply
103 26|         were natural to Yâo and Shun. T'ang and Wû made them
104 26|         âo Ying asked, saying, 'Shun being sovereign, and Kâo-yâo
105 26|         him.'~3. 'But would not Shun have forbidden such a thing?'~
106 26|           4. 'Indeed, how could Shun have forbidden it? Kâo-yâo
107 26|         In that case what would Shun have done?'~6. 'Shun would
108 26|      would Shun have done?'~6. 'Shun would have regarded abandoning
109 26|      Even the wisdom of Yâo and Shun did not extend to everything,
110 27|        of them.'~Mencius said, 'Shun's manner of eating his parched
111 28|          Mencius said, 'Yâo and Shun were what they were by nature;
112 28|       the principles of Yâo and Shun. On this account they are
113 28|     Mencius said, 'From Yâo and Shun down to T'ang were 500 years