Chapter

 1 1 |         a distance of a thousand lî, may I presume that you
 2 1 |          have lost seven hundred lî of territory to Ch'in; and
 3 1 |          which is only a hundred lî square, it is possible to
 4 2 |    divisions, each of a thousand lî square. All Ch'î together
 5 3 |         contained seventy square lî?' Mencius replied, 'It is
 6 3 |       contains only forty square lî, and the people still look
 7 3 |         contained seventy square lî, but the grass-cutters and
 8 3 |       was a park of forty square lî, and that he who killed
 9 3 |          Thus those forty square lî are a pitfall in the middle
10 4 |          of one who with seventy lî exercised all the functions
11 4 |         a prince with a thousand lî standing in fear of others.'~
12 5 |  territory of one hundred square lî. On all these accounts,
13 5 |        did not exceed a thousand lî, and Ch'î embraces so much
14 5 |        sovereigns over a hundred lî of territory, they would,
15 6 |         did it with only seventy lî, and king Wan with only
16 7 |      with an inner wall of three lî in circumference, and an
17 8 |      benefit. He came a thousand lî to wait on the king; because
18 8 |           When I came a thousand lî to wait on the king, it
19 9 |      amount, I suppose, to fifty lî. It is small, but still
20 9 |       and harmony.~19. 'A square lî covers nine squares of land,
21 13|           The power of vision of Lî Lâu, and skill of hand of
22 15|     another more than a thousand lî, and the age of the one
23 19|          territory of a thousand lî square. A Kung and a Hâu
24 19|         a Hâu had each a hundred lî square. A Pâi had seventy
25 19|        square. A Pâi had seventy lî, and a Tsze and a Nan had
26 19|         and a Nan had each fifty lî. The assignments altogether
27 19|          territory was a hundred lî square, the ruler had ten
28 19|        the territory was seventy lî square, the ruler had ten
29 19|          the territory was fifty lî square, the ruler had ten
30 21|         good, while under Yû and Lî, they loved what was cruel."~
31 24|        to the sovereign is 1,000 lî square. Without a thousand
32 24|       square. Without a thousand lî, he would not have sufficient
33 24|     appropriated to a Hâu is 100 lî square. Without 100 lî,
34 24|       100 lî square. Without 100 lî, he would not have sufficient
35 24|          of Lû, it was a hundred lî square. The territory was
36 24|         it was not more than 100 lî. When T'âi-kung was invested
37 24| principality of Ch'î, it was 100 lî square. The territory was
38 24|         it was not more than 100 lî.~7. 'Now Lû is five times
39 24|         Now Lû is five times 100 lî square. If a true royal
40 24|        four seas will count 1000 lî but a small distance, and
41 24|       off at a distance of 1,000 lî. When good men stop 1,000
42 24|         When good men stop 1,000 lî off, calumniators, flatterers,