Chapter

 1 6 |      fault, he rejoiced.~2. 'When Yü heard good words, he bowed
 2 8 |     stopped at Ying, where Ch'ung Yü begged to put a question
 3 8 |         Mencius left Ch'î, Ch'ung Yü questioned him upon the
 4 10|          away to hide themselves. Yü separated the nine streams,
 5 10|     themselves. During that time, Yü was eight years away from
 6 10|       anxiety was the not getting Yü and Kâo Yâo. But he whose
 7 12|     inundation.~4. 'Shun employed Yü to reduce the waters to
 8 12|       reduce the waters to order. Yü dug open their obstructed
 9 12|      words.~11. 'In former times, Yü repressed the vast waters
10 15| righteousness.'~1. Mencius said, 'Yü hated the pleasant wine,
11 16|     people of Chang sent Tsze-cho Yü to make a stealthy attack
12 16|           to pursue him. Tsze-cho Yü said, "To-day I feel unwell,
13 16|           saying 'I shall live?'" Yü replied, "Yü-kung Sze learned
14 16|        you not holding your bow?" Yü answered him, "To-day I
15 16|        wise men would only act as Yü did when he conveyed away
16 16|       wisdom. The manner in which Yü conveyed away the waters
17 16|        account it a calamity.'~1. Yü and Chî, in an age when
18 16|    praised him.~3. Mencius said, 'Yü, Chî, and Yen Hûi agreed
19 16|   principle of their conduct.~4. 'Yü thought that if any one
20 16|       they were so earnest.~5. If Yü and Chî, and Yen-tsze, had
21 17|   imprisoned Kwân on the mountain Yü. When the crimes of those
22 18|   disposal of the kingdom came to Yü, his virtue was inferior
23 18|      given to him. Shun presented Yü to Heaven. Seventeen years
24 18|      years' mourning was expired, Yü withdrew from the son of
25 18|           they had followed Shun. Yü presented Yî to Heaven.
26 18|          Seven years elapsed, and Yü died. When the three years'
27 18|          withdrew from the son of Yü to the north of mount Ch'
28 18|       that Shun assisted Yâo, and Yü assisted Shun, for many
29 18|           time during which Shun, Yü, and Yî assisted in the
30 18|         pursue the same course as Yü; that Yî assisted Yü only
31 18|           as Yü; that Yî assisted Yü only for a few years, and
32 18|          equal to that of Shun or Yü; and moreover there must
33 18|        Confucius said, "T'ang and Yü resigned the throne to their
34 18|           Pâi-lî Hsî was a man of Yü. The people of Tsin, by
35 18|        borrowed a passage through Yü to attack Kwo. On that occasion,
36 18|          he knew that the duke of Yü was not to be remonstrated
37 18|          Knowing that the duke of Yü would be ruined, and leaving
38 23|      Mencius said, 'The prince of Yü did not use Pâi-lî Hsi,
39 24|     waters is superior to that of Yü.'~2. Mencius replied, 'You
40 24|     replied, 'You are wrong, Sir. Yü's regulation of the waters
41 27|           Kâo said, 'The music of Yü was better than that of
42 27|          at the pivot the knob of Yü's bells is nearly worn through.'~