Chapter
1 2 | seek for what I greatly desire.'~16. Mencius said, 'May
2 2 | what it is that you greatly desire?' The king laughed and did
3 2 | resumed, 'Are you led to desire it, because you have not
4 2 | led to entertain such a desire on account of them?' 'No,'
5 2 | No,' said the king; 'my desire is not on account of them.'
6 2 | do to seek for what you desire is like climbing a tree
7 2 | do to seek for what you desire, doing it moreover with
8 2 | with Ch'û? For, with such a desire, you must turn back to the
9 5 | Chung, and is it what you desire for me that I should do
10 8 | but, indeed, it is what I desire.'~3. Another day, the king
11 11| world; when he obtains his desire for office, to practise
12 11| the people; and when that desire is disappointed, to practise
13 11| ancients did indeed always desire to be in office, but they
14 12| full of blushes. I do not desire to know such persons." By
15 13| what we do, realise what we desire, we must turn inwards, and
16 17| dissatisfied, and full of earnest desire.'~2. Wan Chang said, 'When
17 17| the kingdom, is what men desire, but it was not sufficient
18 17| possession of beauty is what men desire, and Shun had for his wives
19 17| sorrow. Riches are what men desire, and the kingdom was the
20 17| sorrow. Honours are what men desire, and Shun had the dignity
21 17| accord with him.~5. 'The desire of the child is towards
22 17| attractions of beauty, his desire is towards young and beautiful
23 17| a wife and children, his desire is towards them. When he
24 17| When he obtains office, his desire is towards his sovereign: --
25 17| end of his life, has his desire towards his parents. In
26 17| see the case of one whose desire at fifty year's was towards
27 22| to him, and he does not desire the elegant embroidered
28 23| he was full of longing desire about his parents."'~1.
29 28| said, 'For the mouth to desire sweet tastes, the eye to
30 28| sweet tastes, the eye to desire beautiful colours, the ear
31 28| beautiful colours, the ear to desire pleasant sounds, the nose
32 28| pleasant sounds, the nose to desire fragrant odours, and the
33 28| odours, and the four limbs to desire ease and rest; -- these
34 28| necessarily sincere, not with any desire to do what is right.~3. '
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