Chapter

 1 1 |         been that the ruler of a State, where such results were
 2 1 |         in the nation a stronger State than Tsin, as you, venerable
 3 2 |        Chî be a small and narrow State, how should I grudge one
 4 2 |  brothers, and his family of the State was governed by it." --
 5 2 |         been that the ruler of a State where such results were
 6 3 |          Ch'î would be near to a state of good government!'~2.
 7 3 |          Ch'î would be near to a state of good government! The
 8 3 |          2. 'He who with a areat State serves a small one, delights
 9 3 |      Heaven. He who with a small State serves a large one, stands
10 3 |        do the same: -- in such a state of things, it cannot be
11 3 |       the princes.~6. '"Now, the state of things is different. --
12 3 |      proclamation throughout his State, and went out and occupied
13 3 |        together, and glorify his State.~With bows and arrows all-displayed,~
14 4 |       reply was, 'The ruler of a State advances to office men of
15 4 |         to the government of the State, then you say, -- "For the
16 4 |          ancestral temple of the State, and are removing to Ch'
17 4 |       have the superiors in your State been, and cruel to their
18 4 |        saying, 'T'ang is a small State. Though I do my utmost to
19 5 |         of the government of the State, and how low, after all,
20 5 |          the four borders of the State: -- so Ch'î possesses the
21 5 |          Without it, man is in a state of starvation.~15. 'It is
22 7 |          of dykes and borders; a State is secured, not by the strengths
23 7 |     governor replied, 'That is a state of things in which it does
24 8 |        with the power of the Yin State rebelled. If knowing that
25 8 |       and that Kwan-shû with the State of Yin rebelled?' 'It is.' '
26 8 |          returning to his native State.~2. The king came to visit
27 9 |        sufficient to make a good State. It is said in the Book
28 9 |         from all quarters of the State to witness it. Those who
29 10|          for the government of a State?'~1. The Mohist, Î Chih,
30 11|    passed from the boundary of a State, he was sure to carry with
31 11|          is like the loss of his State to a prince. It is said
32 11|       over the boundaries of the State where he had been?'~5. '
33 11|         because he goes from one State to another?'~6. Hsiâo pursued, '
34 11|         saying, 'Sung is a small State. Its ruler is now setting
35 11|        in Po, he adjoined to the State of Ko, the chief of which
36 11|        was living in a dissolute state and neglecting his proper
37 12|          not een a minister in a State, he did not go to see the
38 12|       the kingdom was again in a state of great confusion.~6. '
39 12|       nor father is to be in the state of a beast. Kung-ming Î
40 13|          fortunate chance that a State in such a case is preserved.~
41 13|          occasions the ruin of a State." When superiors do not
42 13|       people spring up, and that State will perish in no time.~
43 13|       from him. If the Head of a State be not benevolent, he cannot
44 13|     saying, -- "The kingdom, the State, the family." The root of
45 13|         of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is
46 13|       the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root
47 13|         be affected by the whole State; and he whom any one State
48 13|       State; and he whom any one State affects, will be affected
49 13|        and in five years, if his State be large, or in seven years,
50 13|         Thus, if the prince of a state love benevolence, he will
51 13|        others will destroy it. A State must first smite itself,
52 14|           When they come to this state that they cannot be repressed,
53 15|        was chief minister of the State of Chang, he would convey
54 16|         prince have to guard the State with?'~3. Mencius said, '
55 17|          could do nothing in his State. The Son of Heaven appointed
56 17|   condition was the kingdom! Its state was indeed unsettled." --
57 18|          with, and, leaving that State, went to Ch'in, he had reached
58 19|         or a Nan.~6. 'In a great State, where the territory was
59 19|     tilling the fields.~7. 'In a State of the next order, where
60 19|       the fields.~8. 'In a small State, where the territory was
61 19|         the sovereign of a small State. The duke Hûi of Pî said, "
62 19|         the sovereign of a small State acted thus. The same thing
63 19|         the sovereign of a large State. There was the duke P'ing
64 19|        he never completed in any State a residence of three years.~
65 19|          he was supported by the State. In the case of his relation
66 19|         he was maintained by the State.'~
67 20|          When a prince loses his State, and then accepts a stated
68 20|       ask how the sovereign of a State, when he wishes to support
69 20|       distinguished throughout a State shall make friends of all
70 20|        virtuous scholars of that State. The scholar whose virtue
71 20|          they ought to leave the State.'~
72 21|        in the borders of a large State, they were hewn down with
73 23|      never has there been such a state of society, without ruin
74 23|      never has there been such a state of society, without the
75 23|          of society, without the State where it prevailed rising
76 23|        was prime minister of the State, sent him a similar present,
77 23|     three chief ministers of the State, but before your fame and
78 23|        Hsi, and thereby lost his State. The duke Mû of Chin used
79 23|       changed the manners of the State. When there is the gift
80 24|      entered the boundaries of a State, if the new ground was being
81 24|          hand, if, on entering a State, the ground was found left
82 24|    taking the place from the one State to give it to the other,
83 24|  superior men; -- how can such a state of things be thought of?~
84 24|       much more is it so for the State of Lû!~7. 'If a minister
85 24|           though he may wish the State to be well governed, is
86 24|        prince, on hearing of his state, said, "I must fail in the
87 25|          the tranquillity of the State, and find their pleasure
88 27| criminals.~2. 'If the ruler of a State love benevolence, he will
89 27|        word for rectifying. Each State wishing itself to be corrected,
90 27|         may be able to decline a State of a thousand chariots;
91 27|    ability be not confided in, a State will become empty and void.~
92 27|          to become a prince of a State; to gain the prince of a
93 27|          to gain the prince of a State is the way to become a great
94 27|        way in which to leave the State of his parents. When he
95 27|         which to leave a strange State.'~Mencius said, 'The reason