Chapter

 1 1 |       Ch'i, and then my eldest son perished; on the west we
 2 3 |    excellent inquiry! When the Son of Heaven visited the princes,
 3 3 |   attended at the court of the Son of Heaven, it was called
 4 5 | viscount of Wei and his second son, their Royal Highnesses
 5 5 |        corn to grow long." His son ran to look at it, and found
 6 7 |     the relation of father and son; abroad, there is the relation
 7 7 |        men. Between father and son the ruling principle is
 8 8 |      he again schemed that his son or younger brother should
 9 10|        how, between father and son, there should be affection;
10 10|        may see that the filial son and virtuous man, in interring
11 11|      Mencius answered, 'When a son is born, what is desired
12 12|      Ch'û here, who wishes his son to learn the speech of Ch'
13 14|        he is offended with his son. At the same time, the pupil
14 14|       this is, that father and son are offended with each other.
15 14|    each other. When father and son come to be offended with
16 14|       sons, and one taught the son of another.~4. 'Between
17 14|         4. 'Between father and son, there should be no reproving
18 16|    arose disagreement, he, the son, reproving his father, to
19 16|      urging between father and son is the greatest injury to
20 16|      wife, and drove forth his son, and all his life receives
21 17|        his parents love him, a son rejoices and forgets them
22 17|        the heart of the filial son could not be so free of
23 17|     discharging my office as a son. What can there be in me
24 17|      nothing in his State. The Son of Heaven appointed an officer
25 17|    sovereign, nor treated as a son by his father. Shun stood
26 17|          Of all which a filial son can attain to, there is
27 17|  virtue not being treated as a son by his father.'~
28 18|         Shun withdrew from the son of Yâo to the south of South
29 18|      to court, went not to the son of Yâo, but they went to
30 18|      Litigants went not to the son of Yâo, but they went to
31 18|     Shun. Singers sang not the son of Yâo, but they sang Shun.
32 18|       occupied the seat of the Son of Heaven. If he had, before
33 18|        applied pressure to the son of Yâo, it would have been
34 18|       the worthiest but to his son." Was it so?' Mencius replied, '
35 18|     When Heaven gave it to the son of the preceding sovereign,
36 18|  expired, Yü withdrew from the son of Shun to Yang-ch'ang.
37 18|       instead of following his son, they had followed Shun.
38 18|  expired, Yî withdrew from the son of Yü to the north of mount
39 18|       Ch'î, saying, "He is the son of our sovereign;" the singers
40 18|       Ch'î, saying, "He is the son of our sovereign."~2. 'That
41 18|      to his father, and Shun's son not equal to his; that Shun
42 19|       outline of them.~3. 'The SON OF HEAVEN constituted one
43 19| degrees of dignity.~4. 'To the Son of Heaven there was allotted
44 19|     have access himself to the Son of Heaven. His land was
45 19|     The Chief ministers of the Son of Heaven received an amount
46 21|       their sovereign, and the son of their elder brother besides,
47 23|       and minister, father and son, younger brother and elder,
48 23|       and minister, father and son, elder brother and younger,
49 24|       unfilial; change not the son who has been appointed heir;
50 25|       minister and concubine's son, who keep their hearts under
51 26|       idleness?'~1. The king's son, Tien, asked Mencius, saying, '
52 26|         saw the king of Ch'î's son at a distance, and said
53 26|        the dress of the king's son, are mostly the same as
54 27|  secure the victory, urged his son whom he loved till he sacrificed
55 28|        love between father and son, the observance of righteousness
56 28|        of sheep-dates, and his son, the philosopher Tsang,