Chapter
1 1 | King Hûi of Liang said, 'Small as my virtue is, in the
2 2 | condemned. But though Chî be a small and narrow State, how should
3 2 | changed a large one for a small, how should they know the
4 2 | so it is certain that a small country cannot contend with
5 3 | still looked on it as small.' The king added, 'My park
6 3 | that they looked on it as small?~3. 'When I first arrived
7 3 | great country, to serve a small one, -- as, for instance,
8 3 | prince to be able, with a small country, to serve a large
9 3 | with a areat State serves a small one, delights in Heaven.
10 3 | in Heaven. He who with a small State serves a large one,
11 3 | the reply, 'not to love small valour. If a man brandishes
12 3 | and battle-axes, large and small,~He commenced his march." ~
13 4 | them so as to make them too small, then your Majesty will
14 4 | Mencius, saying, 'T'ang is a small kingdom, and lies between
15 4 | Mencius, saying, 'T'ang is a small State. Though I do my utmost
16 5 | all the members, but in small proportions. I venture to
17 7 | dignitary of Ch'î is not a small one; the road from Ch'î
18 8 | he said, 'I am indeed a small man.'~1. When Mencius left
19 9 | suppose, to fifty lî. It is small, but still sufficient to
20 9 | actual exaction would be small. But in bad years, the produce
21 9 | territory of T'Ang is narrow and small, yet there must be in it
22 10| confusion. If large shoes and small shoes were of the same price,
23 11| to me to be standing on a small point. If now you were once
24 11| Mencius, saying, 'Sung is a small State. Its ruler is now
25 13| the kingdom, princes of small power are submissive to
26 13| prince of Wû.~3. 'Now the small States imitate the large,
27 13| in seven years, if it be small, he will be sure to give
28 15| the lower animals is but small. The mass of people cast
29 19| tilling the fields.~8. 'In a small State, where the territory
30 19| exemplified by the sovereign of a small State. The duke Hûi of Pî
31 19| only has the sovereign of a small State acted thus. The same
32 22| Now chess-playing is but a small art, but without his whole
33 22| lose it.~6. 'Here are a small basket of rice and a platter
34 22| ignoble; some great, and some small. The great must not be injured
35 22| must not be injured for the small, nor the noble for the ignoble.
36 22| this -- the loss of that small amount of benevolence.'~
37 23| referred to in the K'âi Fang is small; that referred to in the
38 23| Where the parent's fault was small, to have murmured on account
39 23| prince, nor did he decline a small office. The courses pursued
40 23| away on occasion of some small offence, not wishing to
41 24| wickedness of his prince is small, but the crime of him who
42 24| just have a great Mo and a small Mo. If we wish to make it
43 24| the great Chieh and the small Chieh.'~1. Pâi Kwei said, '
44 24| will count 1000 lî but a small distance, and will come
45 25| he mends society but in a small way!'~1. Mencius said, '
46 25| remote hills appeared very small. But when he heard a single
47 26| and Lû appeared to him small. He ascended the T'âi mountain,
48 26| heavens appeared to him small. So he who has contemplated
49 26| excellences because he possesses a small one?'~1. T'âo Ying asked,
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