Chapter

  1 1 |    chariots, the murderer of his sovereign shall be the chief of a
  2 1 |       righteous man who made his sovereign an after consideration.~
  3 2 |         he did not appear like a sovereign; when I drew near to him,
  4 4 |          a minister then put his sovereign to death?'~3. Mencius said, '
  5 4 |       not heard of the putting a sovereign to death, in his case.'~
  6 5 |          to prevent his becoming sovereign.~11. 'Moreover, never was
  7 5 |          from the rise of a true sovereign: never was there a time
  8 6 |     practises benevolence is the sovereign of the kingdom. To become
  9 6 |       the kingdom. To become the sovereign of the kingdom, a prince
 10 7 |     without difficulty he became sovereign. There was the behaviour
 11 8 |        was done by all, from the sovereign to the common people, and
 12 8 |         a rule that a true royal sovereign should arise in the course
 13 9 |         binding on all, from the sovereign to the mass of the people.'~
 14 9 |       will not be rich."~6. 'The sovereign of the Hsiâ dynasty enacted
 15 9 |        below.~11. 'Should a real sovereign arise, he will certainly
 16 9 |          the teacher of the true sovereign.~12. 'It is said in the
 17 10|     should be affection; between sovereign and minister, righteousness;
 18 10|   fidelity. The high meritorious sovereign said to him, "Encourage
 19 10|        Great indeed was Yâo as a sovereign. It is only Heaven that
 20 11|       you would make one of them sovereign, or, if smaller, that you
 21 11|    henceforth we shall serve the sovereign of our dynasty of Châu,
 22 11|    wishing to have him for their sovereign. Great as Ch'î and Ch'û
 23 12|         he did not go to see the sovereign.~2. 'Twan Kan-mû leaped
 24 12|        after three years put its sovereign to death. He drove Fei-lien
 25 12|        are matters proper to the sovereign. On this account Confucius
 26 12|    acknowledge the claims of the sovereign. Mo's principle is -- "to
 27 13|          is said, "To urge one's sovereign to difficult achievements
 28 13|         saying to himself, -- My sovereign is incompetent to this,
 29 13|       exhibited.~2. 'He who as a sovereign would perfectly discharge
 30 13|        discharge the duties of a sovereign, and he who as a minister
 31 13|        He who does not serve his sovereign as Shun served Yâo, does
 32 13|        Yâo, does not respect his sovereign; and he who does not rule
 33 13|        in the time of the (last) sovereign of Hsiâ."' ~1. Mencius said, '
 34 13|       are determined.~3. 'If the sovereign be not benevolent, be cannot
 35 13|          against so benevolent a sovereign, they could not be deemed
 36 13|          he wished not to become sovereign, he could not avoid becoming
 37 13|        princes wishing to become sovereign is like the having to seek
 38 14|     obtain the confidence of the sovereign, they cannot succeed in
 39 14|     obtain the confidence of the sovereign: -- if one is not trusted
 40 14|     obtain the confidence of his sovereign. There is a way of being
 41 14|     enough to remonstrate with a sovereign on account of the mal-employment
 42 14|     rectify what is wrong in the sovereign's mind. Let the prince be
 43 15|        said, 'The influence of a sovereign sage terminates in the fifth
 44 17|          who flocked to him. The sovereign designed that Shun should
 45 17|         had the dignity of being sovereign, but this was not sufficient
 46 17|        his desire is towards his sovereign: -- if he cannot get the
 47 17|     cannot get the regard of his sovereign, he burns within. But the
 48 17|         Shun. When Shun was made sovereign, how was it that he only
 49 17|        If while Shun himself was sovereign, his brother had been a
 50 17|    employed as a minister by his sovereign, nor treated as a son by
 51 17|        people." Shun having been sovereign, and, moreover, leading
 52 17|        heaven,~Every spot is the sovereign's ground;~To the borders
 53 17|          Every individual is the sovereign's minister;" ~ -- and Shun
 54 17|              and Shun had become sovereign. I venture to ask how it
 55 17|       laboriously engaged in the sovereign's business, so as not to
 56 17|    author said, "This is all the sovereign's business, and how is it
 57 17|     Kû-sâu was the father of the sovereign; -- this was the height
 58 18|           Mencius said, 'No. The sovereign cannot give the throne to
 59 18|       Mencius's answer was, 'The sovereign can present a man to Heaven,
 60 18|         can present a man to the sovereign, but he cannot cause the
 61 18|          but he cannot cause the sovereign to make that man a prince.
 62 18|           Therefore I said, "The sovereign cannot give the throne to
 63 18|         the son of the preceding sovereign, it was given to him. Shun
 64 18|    saying, "He is the son of our sovereign;" the singers did not sing
 65 18|    saying, "He is the son of our sovereign."~2. 'That Tan-chû was not
 66 18|          Heaven by the preceding sovereign. It was on this account
 67 18|          natural succession, the sovereign who is displaced by Heaven
 68 18|          T'ang so that he became sovereign over the kingdom. After
 69 18|     before he could be appointed sovereign, Wâ'i-ping reigned two years,
 70 18|      their worthy ministers. The sovereign of Hsiâ and those of Yin
 71 19|         serving him makes him my sovereign. What people may I not command?
 72 19|     thing was exemplified by the sovereign of a small State. The duke
 73 19|        me."~4. 'Not only has the sovereign of a small State acted thus.
 74 19|          been exemplified by the sovereign of a large State. There
 75 19|          up to court and saw the sovereign, who lodged him as his son-in-law
 76 19|        in the second palace. The sovereign also enjoyed there Shun'
 77 19|          and guest. Here was the sovereign maintaining friendship with
 78 19|       should arise a truly royal sovereign, he would collect the princes
 79 20|         I venture to ask how the sovereign of a State, when he wishes
 80 20|     person is a teacher, and the sovereign would not call him; -- how
 81 20|         to our stations, you are sovereign, and I am subject. How can
 82 20|      terms of friendship with my sovereign! With regard to our virtue,
 83 21|         it was that under such a sovereign as Yâo there yet appeared
 84 21|         that with Châu for their sovereign, and the son of their elder
 85 23|       Ministers will serve their sovereign for the profit of which
 86 23|   benevolence and righteousness, sovereign and minister, father and
 87 23|       Ministers will serve their sovereign, cherishing the principles
 88 23|         the same way: -- and so, sovereign and minister, father and
 89 24|     against the princes.~2. 'The sovereign visited the princes, which
 90 24|     attended at the court of the sovereign, which was called "Giving
 91 24| deficiency of the crop. When the sovereign entered the boundaries of
 92 24|         his government. Thus the sovereign commanded the punishment,
 93 24|     first announcing them to the sovereign." It was then said, "All
 94 24|    territory appropriated to the sovereign is 1,000 lî square. Without
 95 24|  sovereigns say, "We can for our sovereign enlarge the limits of the
 96 24|     Robbers of the people." If a sovereign follows not the right way,
 97 24|        will say, "We can for our sovereign form alliances with other
 98 24|     Robbers of the people." If a sovereign follows not the right way,
 99 25|       and cheerful. Under a true sovereign, they have an air of deep
100 26|     resides in a country, if its sovereign employ his counsels, he
101 26|  relatives, and the relations of sovereign and minister, superiors
102 26|       asked, saying, 'Shun being sovereign, and Kâo-yâo chief minister
103 27|         his life. When he became sovereign, and had the embroidered
104 27|          grain are the next; the sovereign is the lightest.~2. 'Therefore
105 27|   peasantry is the way to become sovereign; to gain the sovereign is
106 27|    become sovereign; to gain the sovereign is the way to become a prince
107 28|         of righteousness between sovereign and minister, the rules