Chapter
1 1 | mâu, and persons of fifty years may be clothed with silk.
2 1 | and persons of seventy years may eat flesh. Let there
3 2 | and children; that in good years they shall always be abundantly
4 2 | satisfied, and that in bad years they shall escape the danger
5 2 | children. Notwithstanding good years, their lives are continually
6 2 | embittered, and, in bad years, they do not escape perishing.
7 2 | mâu, and persons of fifty years may be clothed with silk.
8 2 | and persons of seventy years may eat flesh. Let there
9 4 | replied, 'In calamitous years and years of famine, the
10 4 | In calamitous years and years of famine, the old and weak
11 5 | he had reached a hundred years: -- and still his influence
12 7 | times. In bad calamitous years, and years of famine, the
13 7 | bad calamitous years, and years of famine, the old and feeble
14 8 | the course of five hundred years, and that during that time
15 8 | more than seven hundred years have elapsed. Judging numerically,
16 9 | points: -- that the three years' mourning, the garment of
17 9 | determined that the three years' mourning should be observed.
18 9 | taking the average of several years. In good years, when the
19 9 | of several years. In good years, when the grain lies about
20 9 | would be small. But in bad years, the produce being not sufficient
21 10| that time, Yü was eight years away from his home, and
22 10| followed him some tens of years, and when your master died,
23 10| lived alone other three years, before he returned home.
24 12| taken and placed for several years in Chwang or Yo, though
25 12| smote Yen, and after three years put its sovereign to death.
26 13| imitate king Wan, and in five years, if his State be large,
27 13| State be large, or in seven years, if it be small, he will
28 13| to seek for mugwort three years old, to cure a seven years'
29 13| years old, to cure a seven years' sickness. If it have not
30 14| of king Wan, within seven years he would be sure to be giving
31 15| other more than a thousand years. But when they got their
32 15| When he has been gone three years and does not return, only
33 16| the solstice of a thousand years ago.'~1. The officer Kung-hang
34 17| After twenty and eight years, the Highly Meritorious
35 17| father or mother for three years, and up to the borders of
36 17| princes to observe the three years' mourning for Yâo, there
37 18| government for twenty and eight years; -- this was more than man
38 18| death of Yâo, when the three years' mourning was completed,
39 18| Yü to Heaven. Seventeen years elapsed, and Shun died.
40 18| Shun died. When the three years' mourning was expired, Yü
41 18| presented Yî to Heaven. Seven years elapsed, and Yü died. When
42 18| Yü died. When the three years' mourning was expired, Yî
43 18| assisted Shun, for many years, conferring benefits on
44 18| assisted Yü only for a few years, and had not long conferred
45 18| sovereign, Wâ'i-ping reigned two years, and Chung-zin four. T'âi-chiâ
46 18| placed him in T'ung for three years. There T'âi-chiâ repented
47 18| righteousness, during those threee years, listening to the lessons
48 19| State a residence of three years.~7. 'Confucius took office
49 21| Mencius said, 'In good years the children of the people
50 21| them good, while in bad years the most of them abandon
51 26| be able to keep the three years' mourning, and to be very
52 28| Shun down to T'ang were 500 years and more. As to Yu and Kâo
53 28| ang to king Wan were 500 years and more. As to Î Yin, and
54 28| Wan to Confucius were 500 years and more. As to T'âi-kung
55 28| now, there are only 100 years and somewhat more. The distance
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