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1 2 | sufficient wherewith to serve their parents, and, for
2 2 | sufficient wherewith to serve their parents, and, below,
3 3 | with a great country, to serve a small one, -- as, for
4 3 | with a small country, to serve a large one, -- as the king
5 4 | between Ch'î and Ch'û. Shall I serve Ch'î? Or shall I serve Chû?'~
6 4 | I serve Ch'î? Or shall I serve Chû?'~2. Mencius replied, '
7 4 | Though I do my utmost to serve those large kingdoms on
8 5 | said Mencius. 'Not to serve a prince whom he did not
9 5 | To say -- "Whom may I not serve? My serving him makes him
10 6 | not suffice for a man to serve his parents with.'~1. Mencius
11 6 | Mencius said, 'Po-î would not serve a prince whom he did not
12 6 | Liû-hsiâ was not ashamed to serve an impure prince, nor did
13 11| From henceforth we shall serve the sovereign of our dynasty
14 13| officers be deemed, who serve their prince without righteousness,
15 13| other Shun. He who does not serve his sovereign as Shun served
16 14| friends: -- if one do not serve his parents so as to make
17 14| keep themselves are able to serve their parents is what I
18 14| able notwithstanding to serve their parents.~2. 'There
19 14| nourishing the will."~4. 'To serve one's parents as Tsang-tsze
20 17| all to be prepared, to serve Shun amid the channelled
21 19| bad sound. He would not serve a prince whom he did not
22 19| Yin said, "Whom may I not serve? My serving him makes him
23 19| Liû-hsiâ was not ashamed to serve an impure prince, nor did
24 19| Shun and Ch'ang Hsî, they serve me."~4. 'Not only has the
25 20| caused his nine sons to serve him, and gave him his two
26 23| of profit. Ministers will serve their sovereign for the
27 23| cherish the thought; sons will serve their fathers, and younger
28 23| and younger brothers will serve their elder brothers, from
29 23| righteousness. Ministers will serve their sovereign, cherishing
30 23| righteousness; sons will serve their fathers, and younger
31 23| and younger brothers will serve their elder brothers, in
32 23| would not, with his virtue, serve a degenerate prince. There
33 23| he did not disdain to serve a vile prince, nor did he
34 24| said, 'Those who now-a-days serve their sovereigns say, "We
35 25| s nature, is the way to serve Heaven.~3. 'When neither
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