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1 24| the four seas will count 1000 lî but a small distance,
2 7 | when you were in Hsieh, 1,200 taels were sent, which you
3 4 | Although it may be worth 240,000 taels, you will surely
4 7 | sent you a present Of 2,400 taels of fine silver, and
5 7 | When you were in Sung, 1,680 taels were sent to you,
6 10| courses of the Tsî and T'â, and led them all to the
7 7 | obliged to be given up and abandoned. This is because advantages
8 21| are thus different. The abandonment is owing to the circumstances
9 18| Is it not best for me to abide in the channelled fields,
10 23| There was Po'î; -- he abode in an inferior situation,
11 12| levying of a tithe only, and abolishing the duties charged at the
12 23| skilful at singing in his abrupt manner. When Mien Ch'ü lived
13 2 | nothing venerable about him. Abruptly he asked me, "How can the
14 6 | wisdom will ensue the entire absence of propriety and righteousness; --
15 19| the chief could not have access himself to the Son of Heaven.
16 19| Hûi of Liû-hsiâ was the accommodating one; and Confucius was the
17 11| her mother admonishes her, accompanying her to the door on her leaving,
18 4 | his successors. As to the accomplishment of the great result, that
19 11| dint of pressing, this was accorded to him, when in one morning
20 19| the declining a present is accounted disrespectful?' The answer
21 13| stores and wealth not being accumulated, which occasions the ruin
22 5 | It is produced by the accumulation of righteous deeds; it is
23 11| blows of an axe.' ~I am not accustomed to drive for a mean man.
24 4 | it in fifty days, is an achievement beyond mere human strength.
25 7 | your Majesty's cities I am acquainted with five, but the only
26 17| punished, the whole kingdom acquiesced: -- it was a cutting off
27 21| beauty? Still through the activity of the vegetative life day
28 9 | being oppressive, and the actual exaction would be small.
29 13| squares and circles. The acute ear of the music-master
30 28| Heaven. But there is an adaptation of our nature for them.
31 12| alarmed by these things, and address myself to the defence of
32 14| have done wrong.'~Mencius, addressing the disciple Yo-chang, said
33 6 | because their strength is not adequate to resist. When one subdues
34 11| When T'ang dwelt in Po, he adjoined to the State of Ko, the
35 6 | whose cap was not rightly adjusted, to leave him with a high
36 6 | like the archer. The archer adjusts himself and then shoots.
37 17| appointed an officer to administer its government, and to pay
38 18| affairs, and affairs were well administered, so that the people reposed
39 1 | the parent of his people, administers his government so as to
40 8 | to them with their former admiration. But do the superior men
41 26| brilliancy, their light admitted even through an orifice
42 19| all to death? Or would he admonish them, and then, on their
43 28| receive them without any more ado.'~1. Mencius said, 'All
44 12| will find that they have adopted the views either of Yang
45 14| this, -- the ordering and adorning those two things. The richest
46 28| but hasty. They are for advancing and seizing their object,
47 7 | the latter office would afford you the opportunity of speaking
48 25| condition of his brothers affords no cause for anxiety; --
49 2 | been transmitted to these after-ages ; -- your servant has not
50 2 | throughout the kingdom who feel aggrieved by their rulers to wish
51 10| so?'~8. 'The Minister of Agriculture taught the people to sow
52 18| After the demise of T'ang, T'âi-ting having died before he could
53 13| them, so Chieh and Châu aided T'ang and Wû, driving the
54 12| devour one another.~10. 'I am alarmed by these things, and address
55 13| officers of Yin, admirable and alert,~Pour out the libations,
56 5 | and sunk. When words are all-depraved, I know how the mind has
57 3 | State.~With bows and arrows all-displayed,~With shields, and spears,
58 28| them, you find nothing to allege. If you would criticise
59 24| can for our sovereign form alliances with other States, so that
60 19| Son of Heaven there was allotted a territory of a thousand
61 8 | support his disciples with an allowance of 10,000 chung, that all
62 9 | fields and the regulation of allowances may be determined by you,
63 | almost
64 2 | said he, "was sitting aloft in the hall, when a man
65 10| house for himself on the altar-ground, where he lived alone other
66 27| When a prince endangers the altars of the spirits of the land
67 26| sake of a stupid workman, alter or do away with the marking-line.
68 19| there Shun's hospitality. Alternately he was host and guest. Here
69 7 | accept, Master, one of these alternatives.'~2. Mencius said, 'I did
70 26| deep sigh, 'One's position alters the air, just as the nurture
71 24| shall hereafter maintain amicable relations." The princes
72 10| dwelling-place. His disciples, amounting to several tens, all wore
73 19| altogether were of four amounts. Where the territory did
74 3 | Book of Poetry,~Kû-kung T'an-fû Came in the morning, galloping
75 21| brother be personating a dead ancestor, to which do you show the
76 9 | mourning and sacrifice, ancestors are to be followed," meaning
77 5 | promise yourself to accomplish anew such results as those realized
78 4 | unpunished of their looking angrily on at the death of their
79 5 | passion-nature pervades and animates the body. The will is first
80 4 | assembled the old men, and announced to them, saying, "What the
81 19| would not be proper. in "The Announcement to Kang" it is said, "When
82 24| promotions without first announcing them to the sovereign."
83 20| caldron, giving him the annoyance of constantly doing obeisance,
84 23| What difficulty is there in answering these inquiries?'~5. 'If
85 26| some whose inquiries he answers.~5. 'There are some who
86 5 | mountain among mounds and ant-hills, and rivers and seas among
87 22| things."'~Mencius said, 'Anybody who wishes to cultivate
88 | anyone
89 16| 6. 'Here now in the same apartment with you are people fighting: --
90 8 | their errors? They go on to apologize for them likewise.'~1. Mencius
91 23| wishing to do so without some apparent cause. All men cannot be
92 25| manifestation are a mild harmony appearing in the countenance, a rich
93 25| that it is determinately apportioned to him by Heaven.~4. 'What
94 7 | When I was in Hsieh, I was apprehensive for my safety, and taking
95 16| and was not permitted to approach him, he sent away his wife,
96 9 | face is of a deep black. He approaches the place of mourning, and
97 22| swan which he thinks is approaching, and wishes to bend his
98 10| he related to him with approbation the words of Hsü Hsing to
99 12| is a man, who every day appropriates some of his neighbour's
100 12| leave I will diminish my appropriations, and will take only one
101 21| me that of which my mind approves along with other men. Therefore
102 25| nothing can be closer than his approximation to it.'~2. 'Those who form
103 13| It is not the cultivable area not being extended, and
104 3 | served Wû.~2. 'He who with a areat State serves a small one,
105 21| the villager.' Mang Chî argued, 'Now your feeling of reverence
106 23| your aim is great, but your argument is not good.~5. 'If you,
107 6 | benevolent than the maker of armour of defence? And yet, the
108 6 | should not be hurt, and the armour-maker's only fear is lest men
109 24| minister Shan commander of his army.~2. Mencius said, 'To employ
110 | Around
111 25| distinguished for their artfulness, do not allow their sense
112 2 | Mencius. 'Your conduct was an artifice of benevolence. You saw
113 26| Mencius said, 'A great artificer does not, for the sake of
114 26| them may well be likened to ascending the heavens, -- something
115 20| what they were as men, to ascertain this, he considers their
116 6 | court cap amid mire and ashes. Pursuing the examination
117 3 | one to another with eyes askance, and the people proceed
118 8 | a murderer, and that one asks me -- "May this man be put
119 14| children, beat the drum and assail him."~2. 'Looking at the
120 4 | from them. Seeing this, he assembled the old men, and announced
121 24| was the duke Hwan. At the assembly of the princes in K'wei-ch'
122 21| had those powers which I assert. But does this condition
123 19| Nan had each fifty lî. The assignments altogether were of four
124 19| from the people," and then assigns some other reason for not
125 5 | passion-nature: -- It is the mate and assistant of righteousness and reason.
126 26| some of whose talents he assists the development.~4. 'There
127 6 | he did not approve, nor associate with a friend whom he did
128 17| When Yâo was old, Shun was associated with him in the government.
129 18| intercept and kill him. He assumed, however, the dress of a
130 19| virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.~2. 'There
131 28| medium, but being unable to assure himself of finding such,
132 2 | all your heart, you will assuredly afterwards meet with calamities.'
133 13| others, and no responsive attachment is shown to him, let him
134 7 | prepared to be obedient, attacks those from whom their own
135 26| learners to consider them attainable, and so daily exert themselves!'~
136 18| States, he met with the attempt of Hwan, the Master of the
137 2 | the Middle Kingdom, and to attract to you the barbarous tribes
138 17| becomes conscious of the attractions of beauty, his desire is
139 6 | Therefore, there is no attribute of the superior man greater
140 18| Wei, he lived with Yen Ch'âu-yû. The wives of the officer
141 17| one's parents, as if the author said, "This is all the sovereign'
142 27| Correction" is when the supreme authority punishes its subjects by
143 11| riches of the kingdom, but to avenge a common man and woman."~
144 9 | was fixed by taking the average of several years. In good
145 21| degree those desires and aversions which are proper to humanity,
146 24| beyond what was sufficient to avert death.'~1. Mencius said, '
147 12| and would not dwell in it. Avoiding his brother and leaving
148 11| principles of the ancient kings, awaiting the rise of future learners: --
149 3 | yourself, the royal sway awaits you.'~1. The king Hsüan
150 6 | home in which man should awell. Since no one can hinder
151 11| surely, like the blows of an axe.' ~I am not accustomed to
152 10| disciples collected their baggage, and prepared to return
153 20| be summoned with a plain banner; a scholar who has taken
154 10| here is this shrike-tongued barbarian of the south, whose doctrines
155 27| him. Fang Fû immediately bared his arms, and descended
156 21| in evil.~2. 'There now is barley. -- Let it be sown and covered
157 3 | I heard, that inside the barrier-gates there was a park of forty
158 22| it.~6. 'Here are a small basket of rice and a platter of
159 16| his thoughts, fast, and bathe, he may sacrifice to God.'~
160 3 | shields, and spears, and battle-axes, large and small,~He commenced
161 24| other States, so that our battles must be successful." Such
162 13| the Book of Poetry, ~"The beacon of Yin is not remote,~It
163 28| eight cubits high, with beams projecting several cubits; --
164 12| to be in the state of a beast. Kung-ming Î said, "In their
165 5 | was the same as if he were beaten before the crowds in the
166 20| of guarding the gates, or beating the watchman's stick.~4. '
167 2 | because you have not enough of beautifully coloured objects to delight
168 17| make attend for me to my bed." Hsiang then went away
169 | beforehand
170 22| tread upon them, even a beggar will not stoop to take them.~
171 3 | proceeded, 'Your servant begs to explain what I have said
172 8 | wished to detain him on behalf of the king, came and sat
173 11| History, "The chief of Ko behaved as an enemy to the provision-carriers,"
174 26| short in everything. He who behaves shabbily to those whom he
175 23| Hwa Châu and Ch'î Liang bewailed their husbands so skilfully,
176 9 | the three dynasties, and binding on all, from the sovereign
177 10| them, and flies and gnats biting at them. The perspiration
178 16| as if he were not to be blamed," but he thereby only meant
179 3 | Book of Poetry,~"The king blazed with anger,~And he marshalled
180 10| the Chiang and Han, and bleached in the autumn sun: -- how
181 28| music. I hate the reddish blue, lest it be confounded with
182 25| below, he has no occasion to blush before men; -- this is a
183 17| you." At the same time, he blushed deeply. Shun said to him, "
184 12| countenances, they are full of blushes. I do not desire to know
185 10| Does Hsü cook his food in boilers and earthenware pans, and
186 24| suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his
187 11| of the go-betweens, shall bore holes to steal a sight of
188 9 | so that they proceed to borrowing to increase their means,
189 3 | provisions and grain,~In bottomless bags, and sacks,~That he
190 24| princes in K'wei-ch'iû, he bound the victim and placed the
191 11| When he passed from the boundary of a State, he was sure
192 7 | it is said, "A people is bounded in, not by the limits of
193 21| righteousness is like a cup or a bowl. The fashioning benevolence
194 6 | such servitude, is like a bowmaker's being ashamed to make
195 3 | love small valour. If a man brandishes his sword, looks fiercely,
196 9 | taking its length with its breadth, will amount, I suppose,
197 11| There is a man here, who breaks your tiles, and draws unsightly
198 23| profit cherished in their breasts. But never has there been
199 18| four horses of the Ch'ü breed, borrowed a passage through
200 21| my elder brother; for a brief season, on occasion, it
201 28| whose completed goodness is brightly displayed is what is called
202 26| moon being possessed of brilliancy, their light admitted even
203 22| cold. Though I succeed in bringing out some buds of goodness,
204 25| princes, the people look brisk and cheerful. Under a true
205 21| the cattle and goats and browsed upon them. To these things
206 4 | attack.'~1. There had been a brush between Tsâu and Lû, when
207 10| price. So it would be with bundles of hemp and silk, being
208 6 | fire which has begun to burn, or that of a spring which
209 17| regard of his sovereign, he burns within. But the man of great
210 25| like a stream or a river bursting its banks, and flowing out
211 5 | enemy and then advance; to calculate the chances of victory and
212 20| stores, and he then said, "My calculations must be all right. That
213 20| the meat from the prince's caldron, giving him the annoyance
214 21| day and night, and in the calm air of the morning, just
215 17| government. It is said in the Canon of Yâo, "After twenty and
216 13| clear, then he will wash his cap-strings; and when muddy, he will
217 11| Ritual Usages? -- "At the capping of a young man, his father
218 4 | ordinance, restoring your captives, old and young, stopping
219 1 | and the weeding of them be carefully attended to, and that the
220 11| have such an interchange, carpenters and carriage-wrights may
221 15| foot-bridges are completed, and the carriage-bridges in the twelfth month, the
222 27| said, 'A carpenter or a carriage-maker may give a man the circle
223 16| steel points against the carriage-wheel, discharged four of them,
224 11| honour to the carpenter and carriage-wright, and slight him who practises
225 11| interchange, carpenters and carriage-wrights may all get their food from
226 11| aim of the carpenter and carriagewright is by their trades to seek
227 8 | looked right and left, to catch in his net the whole gain
228 3 | into it; so also had the catchers of pheasants and hares.
229 18| Pâi-lî Hsî sold himself to a cattle-keeper of Ch'in for the skins of
230 11| bending to it, they would have caught birds and animals sufficient
231 11| door on her leaving, and cautioning her with these words, 'You
232 12| the high grounds they made caves. It is said in the Book
233 3 | inspection to Chwan-fû, and Cbâo-wû, and then to bend my course
234 25| here.~2. 'To stand in the centre of the kingdom, and tranquillize
235 23| armies will rejoice in the cessation of war, and find their pleasure
236 14| Po-Î, that he might avoid Châ'u, was dwelling on the coast
237 13| It is only by a fortunate chance that a State in such a case
238 5 | advance; to calculate the chances of victory and then engage: --
239 11| force to make bend: -- these characteristics constitute the great man.'~
240 3 | doings which might be so characterized as wild and lost.~9. '"It
241 3 | against it. Pursuing the chase without satiety is what
242 23| with this thought of profit cherished in their breasts. But never
243 22| Chess Ch'iû is the best chess-player in all the kingdom. Suppose
244 16| The second is gambling and chess-playiDg, and being fond of wine,
245 22| what avail is it?~3. 'Now chess-playing is but a small art, but
246 9 | and only one.~4. 'Ch'ang Chi'en said to duke King of
247 3 | And it was then that the Chî-shâo and Chio-shâo were made,
248 8 | one desiring riches?~6. 'Chî-sun said, "A strange man was
249 6 | by the passage ofthe Tâi Chiah, -- "When Heaven sends down
250 24| of his building frames; Chiâo-ko from his fish and salt;
251 18| On that occasion, Kung Chih-ch'î remonstrated against granting
252 3 | or widows; the old and childless, or solitaries ; the young
253 23| his State. The duke Mû of Chin used him, and became chief
254 3 | then that the Chî-shâo and Chio-shâo were made, in the words
255 19| friends, namely, Yo-chang Chiû, Mû Chung, and three others
256 3 | They came and together chose the site for their settlement." ~
257 15| said, 'Shun was born in Chû-fang, removed to Fû-hsiâ, and
258 3 | hosts,~To stop the march to Chü,~To consolidate the prosperity
259 2 | none of the disciples of Chuncg-nî who spoke about the affairs
260 10| doctrines of Châu-kung and Chung-nE, he came northwards to the
261 18| i-ping reigned two years, and Chung-zin four. T'âi-chiâ was then
262 3 | a visit of inspection to Chwan-fû, and Cbâo-wû, and then to
263 27| carriage-maker may give a man the circle and square, but cannot make
264 7 | inner wall of three lî in circumference, and an outer wall of seven. --
265 17| the scheme to cover up the city-forming prince, the merit is all
266 18| distress, he lodged with the city-master Ch'ang, who was then a minister
267 10| they are well fed, warmly clad, and comfortably lodged,
268 12| does not acknowledge the claims of the sovereign. Mo's principle
269 23| the one hand, to a single clasp of gold, and, on the other,
270 10| separated the nine streams, cleared the courses of the Tsî and
271 2 | was the reply. 'If you climb a tree to seek for fish,
272 2 | what you desire is like climbing a tree to seek for fish.'~
273 25| perfect virtue, nothing can be closer than his approximation to
274 2 | enough of light and warm clothing for your body? Or because
275 5 | the mind of the speaker is clouded over. When words are extravagant,
276 19| were to sit amid mud and coals with his court robes and
277 1 | side they throw away their coats of mail, trail their arms
278 5 | embraces so much territory. Cocks crow and dogs bark to one
279 11| silkworms, and unwinds their cocoons, to make the garments for
280 6 | with the priest and the coffin-maker. The choice of a profession,
281 8 | regulations from making their coffins in this way, men cannot
282 10| had elapsed, his disciples collected their baggage, and prepared
283 5 | change is needed for the collecting of a population. If its
284 8 | there came orders for the collection of troops, when it would
285 3 | it so?' The king changed colour, and said, 'I am unable
286 2 | not enough of beautifully coloured objects to delight your
287 10| well fed, warmly clad, and comfortably lodged, without being taught
288 24| government. Thus the sovereign commanded the punishment, but did
289 24| to make the minister Shan commander of his army.~2. Mencius
290 13| to a great depth, we must commence in the low ground of a stream
291 19| its close. The metal sound commences the blended harmony of all
292 19| that blended harmony. The commencing that harmony is the work
293 24| prince of Lû wanting to commit the administration of his
294 14| those who take in grassy commons, imposing the cultivation
295 9 | medicine do not raise a commotion in the patient, his disease
296 28| medium, to whom he might communicate his instructions, determined
297 27| ministers sympathized or communicated with him.'~1. Mo Ch'î said, '
298 12| whom they have no great community of feeling. If you look
299 6 | Therefore, self-possessed, he companied with men indifferently,
300 5 | Confucius.'~23. Ch'âu said, 'Comparing Po-î and Î Yin with Confucius,
301 2 | words, the movements of compassion began to work in my mind.
302 28| Principles which, as held, are compendious, while their application
303 5 | If the mind does not feel complacency in the conduct, the nature
304 6 | disgrace and yet to live complacently doing what is not benevolent,
305 2 | rulers to wish to come and complain to your Majesty. And when
306 9 | and virtue will be gravely complaisant and economical, showing
307 26| not advance to them but by completing one lesson after another.'~
308 11| husband.'" Thus, to look upon compliance as their correct course
309 20| king's countenance became composed, and he then begged to ask
310 26| his back, and retired into concealment, living some where along
311 16| is their boring out their conclusions. If those wise men would
312 2 | appearance of what the people condemned. But though Chî be a small
313 11| unemployed by a ruler, he was condoled with."'~2. Hsiâo said, '
314 11| Hsiâo said, 'Did not this condoling, on being three months unemployed
315 12| obstructed channels, and conducted them to the sea. He drove
316 27| troops, I am skilful at conducting a battle!" -- They are great
317 16| utterly lost indeed! Since he conducts himself so, what is there
318 4 | of Lû a ruler who would confide in me, and put my counsels
319 27| virtue and ability be not confided in, a State will become
320 4 | and younger brothers in confinement. You have pulled down the
321 17| Kû-sâu also believed him and conformed to virtue." -- This is the
322 27| age of corruption cannot confound him whose equipment of virtue
323 24| him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all
324 10| establishment? Why does he go confusedly dealing and exchanging with
325 28| appointment of Heaven in connexion with them, and the superior
326 24| 4. 'The crime of him who connives at, and aids, the wickedness
327 4 | of Ch'î attacked Yen, and conquered it.~2. The king Hsüan asked,
328 4 | chariots, to complete the conquest of it in fifty days, is
329 2 | replied, We are going to consecrate a bell with its blood. The
330 2 | Shall we then omit the consecration of the bell ? The king said,
331 28| the current customs. They consent with an impure age. Their
332 27| time forth I know the heavy consequences of killing a man's near
333 9 | must have his holy field, consisting of fifty mâu.~17. 'Let the
334 3 | stop the march to Chü,~To consolidate the prosperity of Châu,~
335 5 | 16. 'There must be the constant practice of this righteousness,
336 7 | act freely and without any constraint, either in going forward
337 4 | and saying that, after consulting with the people of Yen,
338 22| When one thing comes into contact with another, as a matter
339 9 | land, which nine squares contain nine hundred mâu. The central
340 26| him small. So he who has contemplated the sea, finds it difficult
341 24| superior man serves his prince contemplates simply the leading him in
342 2 | between that and Tsâu's contending with Ch'û? For, with such
343 14| fight for their prince! When contentions about territory are the
344 25| they have an air of deep contentment.~2. 'Though he slay them,
345 27| affect those who were in contiguity with them, and felt their
346 18| repented of his errors, was contrite, and reformed himself. In
347 25| it.'~2. 'Those who form contrivances and versatile schemes distinguished
348 10| his husbandry.' 'Does Hsü cook his food in boilers and
349 2 | his slaughter-house and cook-room.'~9. The king was pleased,
350 6 | virtue, in their hearts' core they are pleased, and sincerely
351 27| State wishing itself to be corrected, what need is there for
352 28| with their words, did not correspond with them.~7. 'When he found
353 10| that is great, and only Yâo corresponded to it. How vast was his
354 26| occasioned by nothing but the correspondence of their positions.'~1.
355 27| gain are large; an age of corruption cannot confound him whose
356 17| and there was Shun on his couch playing on his lute. Hsiang
357 24| answered, 'No.' 'Is he wise in council?' 'No.' 'Is he possessed
358 24| attached to the laws and worthy counsellors, and if abroad there are
359 12| feeling. If you look at their countenances, they are full of blushes.
360 5 | royal orders by stages and couriers."~13. 'At the present time,
361 10| covered the bodies. If the covering them thus was indeed right,
362 9 | harmony.~19. 'A square lî covers nine squares of land, which
363 12| half eaten by worms. He crawled to it, and tried to eat
364 10| this: -- that if an infant crawling about is likely to fall
365 17| went into the fields, he cried out and wept towards the
366 2 | having heard their dying cries, he cannot bear to eat their
367 23| Stupid indeed was old Kâo's criticism on the ode.'~3. Ch'âu then
368 24| fifth was, -- "Follow no crooked policy in making embankments.
369 24| was a deficiency of the crop. When the sovereign entered
370 5 | so much territory. Cocks crow and dogs bark to one another,
371 27| grieved,~I am hated by the crowd of mean creatures." ~This
372 26| his whole body from the crown to the heel, he could have
373 13| a kingdom. It is not the cultivable area not being extended,
374 22| neglects his wû and chiâ, and cultivates his sour jujube-trees; --
375 10| people to sow and reap, cultivating the five kinds of grain.
376 13| mugwort three years old, to cure a seven years' sickness.
377 9 | his disease will not be cured by it."'~1. When the duke
378 24| report of office." It was a custom in the spring to examine
379 21| over your forehead, and, by damming and leading it you may force
380 14| unconsciously the feet begin to dance and the hands to move.'~
381 12| Ho, and the Han, and the dangers and obstructions which they
382 19| always ate his fill, not daring to do otherwise. Here, however,
383 28| the reality. I hate the darnel, lest it be confounded with
384 28| Pleasure and wine, and the dash of hunting, with thousands
385 8 | Judging numerically, the date is past. Examining the character
386 9 | Book of Poetry,~"In the day-light go and gather the grass,~
387 15| and thought about it, from daytime into the night, and when
388 21| not good, their nature is dealt with in this way.'~1. The
389 13| the same means that the decaying and flourishing, the preservation
390 17| the Highly Meritorious one deceased. The people acted as if
391 11| bird. I drove for him so as deceitfully to intercept the birds,
392 9 | should the duke of Châu deceive me by those words?"~5. '
393 15| Mencius said, 'Men must be decided on what they will NOT do,
394 15| Confucius said, "Its righteous decisions I ventured to make."'~1.
395 26| the righteousness which declines a dish of rice or a plate
396 1 | neighboring kingdoms do not decrease, nor do my people increase.
397 2 | pursued, 'Let not your Majesty deem it strange that the people
398 3 | said, 'Since your Majesty deems them excellent, why do you
399 4 | thing I can suggest. Dig deeper your moats; build higher
400 27| battle. Sustaining a great defeat, he would engage again,
401 1 | on the east we have been defeated by Ch'i, and then my eldest
402 7 | depth, where the arms of its defenders, offensive and defensive,
403 28| but one of these at once, deferring the other two. If he require
404 6 | as if he were going to be defiled. Therefore, although some
405 9 | are sure to neglect this defining of the boundaries. When
406 26| Mencius said, 'A man with definite aims to be accomplished
407 23| with his virtue, serve a degenerate prince. There was Î Yin; --
408 24| court, he was punished by degradation of rank; if he did so a
409 9 | greatly pleased with the deep dejection of his countenance and the
410 19| so; when it was proper to delay, he did so; when it was
411 4 | princes of the various States deliberated together, and resolved to
412 12| perverse speakings will delude the people, and stop up
413 22| away the other: -- their delusion is extreme. The issue is
414 12| to show themselves. Their delusions spring up in men's minds,
415 4 | said the other. 'That you demean yourself, prince, in paying
416 5 | low, they would not have demeaned themselves to flatter their
417 18| over the kingdom. After the demise of T'ang, T'âi-ting having
418 6 | the four seas. Let them be denied that development, and they
419 2 | Then the clouds collect densely in the heavens, they send
420 21| way in which the trees are denuded by axes and bills. Hewn
421 14| those two things, and not departing from them. The richest fruit
422 9 | aid system means mutual dependence.~7. 'Lung said, "For regulating
423 26| of one's principles being dependent for their manifestation
424 2 | replied, 'No. How should I derive pleasure from these things?
425 15| to, so that no blessings descend on the people. When for
426 26| some on whom his influence descends like seasonable rain.~3. '
427 5 | was, 'It is difficult to describe it.~13. 'This is the passion-nature: --
428 13| generations to change the designation.~5. 'This is what is intended
429 17| flocked to him. The sovereign designed that Shun should superintend
430 12| unrighteous, then use all despatch in putting an end to it: --
431 14| prince who treats men with despite and plunders them, is only
432 19| people just as a robber despoils his victim. Yet if they
433 9 | country,~It received a new destiny." ~That is said with reference
434 24| destroying the people. A destroyer of the people would not
435 13| how could we have such destruction of States and ruin of Families?~
436 8 | A person who wished to detain him on behalf of the king,
437 25| for this reason that it is determinately apportioned to him by Heaven.~
438 19| people there are none but detest them:" -- thus, such characters
439 24| and what a benevolent man detests. You are wrong, my good
440 20| and again, they ought to dethrone him.'~2. The king on this
441 10| saw foxes and wild-cats devouring them, and flies and gnats
442 21| influence of the rain and dew, they were not without buds
443 21| afforded by the rains and dews, and to the different ways
444 9 | Confucius said, "When a prince dies, his successor entrusts
445 4 | it that you herein act so differently from your conduct in calling
446 6 | of such a season, clearly digest the principles of his government
447 26| accomplished may be compared to one digging a well. To dig the well
448 7 | The position of a high dignitary of Ch'î is not a small one;
449 19| What was the arrangement of dignities and emoluments determined
450 12| With your leave I will diminish my appropriations, and will
451 11| leave to try again." By dint of pressing, this was accorded
452 13| substance, and not having first dipped it in water. It is said
453 13| substance,~Without first dipping it (in water)?"' ~1. Mencius
454 24| right way, nor has his mind directed to benevolence, to seek
455 24| him in the right path, and directing his mind to benevolence.'~
456 16| and his father there arose disagreement, he, the son, reproving
457 12| injured the people also disappeared, and after this men found
458 18| ministers about court may be discerned from those whom they entertain,
459 5 | man may have wisdom and discernment, but that is not like embracing
460 17| his countenance became discomposed. Confucius said, At this
461 10| way which his doctrines discountenance.'~3. The disciple Hsü informed
462 9 | visited Mencius.~2. Mencius discoursed to him how the nature of
463 12| If you listen to people's discourses throughout it, you will
464 2 | examined into it, I could not discover my own mind. When you, Master,
465 2 | verified, my Master, in your discovery of my motive. I indeed did
466 12| indulge in unreasonable discussions. The words of Yang Chû and
467 23| Liû-hsiâ; -- he did not disdain to serve a vile prince,
468 28| conduct has a semblance of disinterestedness and purity. All men are
469 22| among the things which man dislikes there were nothing which
470 19| learned, for the princes, disliking them as injurious to themselves,
471 3 | with him?' The king said, 'Dismiss him.'~3. Mencius again said, '
472 19| out his principles. When dismissed and left without office,
473 26| cannot be near and see him so disobedient to reason," and therewith
474 11| must be careful. Do not disobey your husband.'" Thus, to
475 3 | man pursuing a violent and disorderly course in the kingdom, and
476 1 | Your Majesty will indeed dispense a benevolent government
477 18| succession, the sovereign who is displaced by Heaven must be like Chieh
478 24| countenance, and said in displeasure, 'This is what I, Kû-Lî,
479 18| People say, "When the disposal of the kingdom came to Yü,
480 4 | individual cannot undertake to dispose of it in his own person.
481 28| 2. 'Those who nowadays dispute with the followers of Yang
482 27| of Poetry,~"My heart is disquieted and grieved,~I am hated
483 26| It takes up one point and disregards a hundred others.'~1. Mencius
484 7 | righteousness." Thus they manifest a disrespect than which there can be
485 13| high station, he thereby disseminates his wickedness among all
486 11| riches and honours to make dissipated, of poverty and mean condition
487 11| of which was living in a dissolute state and neglecting his
488 27| the rules of propriety and distinctions of right, the high and the
489 26| more should a peculiar air distinguish him whose position is in
490 24| able to reform. They are distressed in mind and perplexed in
491 9 | salaries will not be evenly distributed. On this account, oppressive
492 9 | ask you, in the remoter districts, observing the nine-squares
493 9 | the nine-squares system of dividing the land. Mencius said to
494 2 | four seas embraces nine divisions, each of a thousand lî square.
495 14| you, having learned the doctrine of the ancients, would have
496 3 | on the flowing stream; no doings which might be so characterized
497 5 | Châu dynasties, the royal domain did not exceed a thousand
498 26| him, is to keep him as a domestic animal.~2. 'Honouring and
499 19| Mencius said, 'When the donor offers it on a ground of
500 16| order, thrice passed their doors without entering them. Confucius
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