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501 25| long life causes a man any double-mindedness, but he waits in the cultivation
502 4 | î; and now, when with a doubled territory you do not put
503 23| get a wife, will you so drag her away?"'~1. Chiâo of
504 24| The five chiefs, however, dragged the princes to punish other
505 23| your neighbour's wall, and dragging away his virgin daughter,
506 26| archer, charge his rule for drawing the bow.~3. 'The superior
507 18| from court, and some have drawn near to it; some have left
508 5 | just as stabbing a fellow dressed in cloth of hair. He feared
509 12| and his wife twists and dresses threads of hemp to sell
510 2 | like a sovereign; when I drew near to him, I saw nothing
511 5 | Mencius replied, 'Let us drop speaking about these, if
512 1 | people into pit-falls, or drown them. Your Majesty will
513 14| Little children, beat the drum and assail him."~2. 'Looking
514 13| this is like hating to be drunk, and yet being strong to
515 23| was not equal to lift a duckling: -- he was then a man of
516 12| the waters to order. Yü dug open their obstructed channels,
517 25| Therefore, if kings and dukes did not show the utmost
518 25| knock at a man's door in the dusk of the evening, and ask
519 25| regulation of the fields and dwellings, his teaching them to plant
520 7 | in, not by the limits of dykes and borders; a State is
521 28| Kâo Yâo, they saw those earliest sages, and so knew their
522 15| he is learning with deep earnestness and by the proper course,
523 10| his food in boilers and earthenware pans, and does he plough
524 8 | superior men of old were like eclipses of the sun and moon. All
525 14| How can respectfulness and economy be made out of tones of
526 9 | coarse cloth with its lower edge even, and the eating of
527 24| no fortified cities, no edifices, no ancestral temples, no
528 9 | and hsiâo, -- all those educational institutions, -- for the
529 2 | careful attention be paid to educatlon in schools, -- the inculcation
530 12| ancients, if one had not een a minister in a State, he
531 4 | A man's advancement is effected, it may be, by others, and
532 3 | of antiquity, as regards effecting that.'~4. The king said, '
533 25| one acts with a vigorous effort at the law of reciprocity,
534 4 | is, it may be, from the efforts of others. But to advance
535 28| Chang, Tsang Hsî, and Mû P'ei, were those whom Confucius
536 25| upon himself without being elated, he is far beyond the mass
537 1 | defeated by Ch'i, and then my eldest son perished; on the west
538 4 | you, prince, to make your election between these two courses.'~
539 22| and he does not desire the elegant embroidered garments of
540 12| leopards, rhinoceroses, and elephants; -- and all the people was
541 11| with Ko, and though he made eleven punitive expeditions, he
542 15| government.~3. 'When in the eleventh month of the year the foot-bridges
543 24| crooked policy in making embankments. Impose no restrictions
544 17| When I first let it go, it embarrassed. In a little while, it seemed
545 2 | their lives are continually embittered, and, in bad years, they
546 5 | discernment, but that is not like embracing the favourable opportunity.
547 10| perspiration flowed. The emotions of their hearts affected
548 6 | the time when he became emperor, he was continually learning
549 11| well as others, of official employments, but I have not heard of
550 9 | only one.~4. 'Ch'ang Chi'en said to duke King of Ch'
551 1 | wood than can be used, this enables the people to nourish their
552 10| sovereign said to him, "Encourage them; lead them on; rectify
553 22| conduct, moreover, greatly encourages those who are not benevolent.~
554 1 | and the kingdom will be endangered. In the kingdom of ten thousand
555 27| officer.~3. 'When a prince endangers the altars of the spirits
556 15| Confucius himself, I have endeavoured to cultivate my virtue by
557 9 | Therefore, a ruler who is endowed with talents and virtue
558 16| other men could not have endured the distress, but he did
559 6 | do not tax the goods, or enforce the proper regulations without
560 21| relishes; their ears agree in enjoying the same sounds; their eyes
561 5 | change is needed for the enlarging of its territory: no change
562 27| talents by means of their own enlightenment made others enlightened.
563 17| Yû-pî was to enrich and ennoble him. If while Shun himself
564 22| Those whom Châo the Great ennobles he can make mean again.~
565 14| government, all his ministers who enriched him were rejected by Confucius: --
566 21| allow their minds to be ensnared and drowned in evil.~2. '
567 24| have sufficient for his entertainment of the princes. The territory
568 24| princes requiring presents and entertainments; there is no system of officers
569 3 | fuel-gatherers had the privilege of entrance into it; so also had the
570 17| to be, but he cannot be entrapped by what is contrary to right
571 18| with presents of silk to entreat him to enter his service.
572 3 | Majesty's ministers were to entrust his wife and children to
573 9 | prince dies, his successor entrusts the administration to the
574 7 | Tsin and Ch'û cannot be equalled. Let their rulers have their
575 27| cannot confound him whose equipment of virtue is complete.'~
576 2 | it.~14. 'You collect your equipments of war, endanger your soldiers
577 2 | torrents of rain, and the grain erects itself, as if by a shoot.
578 24| Men for the most part err, and are afterwards able
579 15| country, the prince sends an escort to conduct him beyond the
580 2 | intelligence and vigour, I will essay and try to carry your instructions
581 9 | has been recognised.~10. 'Establish hsiang, hsü, hsio, and hsiâo, --
582 14| sons in the kingdom were established in their respective duties.
583 25| this is the way in which he establishes his Heaven-ordained being.'~
584 2 | the greatest importance to estimate the motions of the mind.
585 28| is all that is needed." Eunuch-like, flattering their generation; --
586 5 | principle. When words are evasive, I know how the mind is
587 9 | for salaries will not be evenly distributed. On this account,
588 18| leaving him before that event, he cannot be said not to
589 | everywhere
590 24| reformation. When things have been evidenced in men's looks, and set
591 10| principles will not be fully evident. Let me first correct him.
592 14| unable to change, while he exacted from the people double the
593 9 | oppressive, and the actual exaction would be small. But in bad
594 28| Mencius said, 'There are the exactions of hempen-cloth and silk,
595 20| he raised him to the most exalted situation. From this we
596 26| again, 'What do you mean by exalting the aim?' The answer was, '
597 6 | and ashes. Pursuing the examination of his dislike to what was
598 10| there was perhaps no one who excelled him. He was what you call
599 26| man credit for the great excellences because he possesses a small
600 12| carried their scrupulosity to excess. When a prince is urgent,
601 2 | soldiers and officers, and excite the resentment of the other
602 24| him who anticipates and excites that wickedness is great.
603 13| inexhaustible. When they had exerted to the utmost the thoughts
604 25| Mencius said, 'He who has exhausted all his mental constitution
605 26| and respecting are what exist before any offering of gifts.~
606 11| he made eleven punitive expeditions, he had not an enemy in
607 25| of food seasonably, and expend their wealth only on the
608 27| wealth sufficient for the expenditure.'~1. Mencius said, 'The
609 2 | matter? I did not grudge the expense of it, and changed it for
610 7 | what is necessary for their expenses. The prince's message was, '
611 6 | they will without exception experience a feeling of alarm and distress.
612 1 | O sun, when wilt thou expire? We will die together with
613 24| and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and
614 23| of the murmuring which it expresses,' was the reply.~2. Mencius
615 13| is said, "It is not the exterior and interior walls being
616 21| white; according as he is so externally to me. On this account,
617 23| adjust them at their lower extremities, but only put their tops
618 12| goose. He, knitting his eyebrows, said, "What are you going
619 10| their hearts affected their faces and eyes, and instantly
620 21| Gave them their various faculties and relations with their
621 21| may thus see that every faculty and relation must have its
622 12| into decay, and principles faded away. Perverse speakings
623 2 | not see a waggon-load of faggots; -- "would your Majesty
624 14| heard of any, who, having failed to keep themselves, were
625 16| himself -- "I must have been failing to do my utmost."~6. 'He
626 22| neglecting to think, it fails to do this. These -- the
627 28| their actions, where we fairly compare them with their
628 24| If a scholar have not faith, how shall he take a firm
629 26| elders, true-hearted, and faithful. What greater example can
630 15| and eighth when the rain falls abundantly, the channels
631 27| man of that name in Tsin, famous for his skill in seizing
632 26| 1. Mencius, going from Fan to Ch'î, saw the king of
633 5 | î-lin among quadrupeds, the Fang-hwang among birds, the T'âi mountain
634 18| was not so. Î Yin was a farmer in the lands of the prince
635 2 | Majesty's court, and all the farmers to wish to plough in your
636 5 | not like waiting for the farming seasons." The present time
637 25| husbandmen cultivated their farms of 100 mâu, and thus their
638 21| to humanity in order to fashion from it benevolence and
639 21| like a cup or a bowl. The fashioning benevolence and righteousness
640 12| dared to resist us." ~These father-deniers and king-deniers would have
641 3 | solitaries ; the young and fatherless, or orphans: -- these four
642 6 | which they may gain the favour of the child's parents,
643 5 | is not like embracing the favourable opportunity. A man may have
644 3 | and will thus preserve its favouring decree."'~4. The king said,'
645 19| property, being reckless and fearless of death, among all the
646 21| first pour out wine at a feast?' 'For the villager.' Mang
647 18| the duke Mû of Ch'in by feeding oxen, could he be called
648 12| sovereign to death. He drove Fei-lien to a corner by the sea,
649 26| five chiefs of the princes feigned them.~2. 'Having borrowed
650 6 | to cultivate the public feld, and exact no other taxes
651 5 | they stand out from their fellows, and rise above the level,
652 17| to marry. That male and female should dwell together, is
653 12| north, and he drove away all ferocious animals, and the people
654 21| is not strong, and it is fettered and destroyed by what takes
655 21| place during the day. This fettering taking place again and again,
656 25| Death under handcuffs and fetters cannot correctly be so ascribed.'~
657 4 | more deep and the fire more fierce, they will in like manner
658 3 | brandishes his sword, looks fiercely, and says, "How dare he
659 19| territory did not amount to fiftylî, the chief could not have
660 11| tiles, and draws unsightly figures on your walls; -- his purpose
661 16| had been covered with a filthy head-dress, all people would
662 22| not benevolent.~2. 'The final issue will simply be this --
663 21| they think it was never finely wooded. But is this the
664 1 | the use of punishments and fines, and making the taxes and
665 9 | till the public work is finished, may they presume to attend
666 2 | used; the waggon-load of firewood is not seen, because the
667 6 | potter's art, and was a fisherman, to the time when he became
668 6 | selecting a residence, do not fix on one where such prevail,
669 22| was on fire, and when the flames were not extinguished, were
670 5 | have demeaned themselves to flatter their favourite.~26. 'Now,
671 10| that the birds and beasts fled away to hide themselves.
672 14| his, may be accepted as flial piety.'~Mencius said, 'It
673 10| wild-cats devouring them, and flies and gnats biting at them.
674 5 | his valour: -- He did not flinch from any strokes at his
675 27| people have flowed till it floated the pestles of the mortars?"'~
676 2 | the case, the people would flock to him, as water flows downwards
677 17| there were multitudes who flocked to him. The sovereign designed
678 25| flowing out in an irresistible flood.'~2. 'They are the friendless
679 5 | Kwan Chung?" Tsang Hsî, flushed with anger and displeased,
680 13| downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.~3. 'Accordingly,
681 23| unfilial, and to fret and foam in such a manner would also
682 26| necessary to look at it as foaming in waves. The sun and moon
683 23| like water which frets and foams about a stone that interrupts
684 15| eleventh month of the year the foot-bridges are completed, and the carriage-bridges
685 27| disciple Kâo, 'There are the footpaths along the hills; -- if suddenly
686 14| circumstances of the case forbid its being done. The teacher
687 12| snakes and dragons, and forced them into the grassy marshes.
688 24| a third time, the royal forces were set in motion, and
689 21| may make it go over your forehead, and, by damming and leading
690 10| perspiration started out upon their foreheads, and they looked away, unable
691 24| kind to the young. Be not forgetful of strangers and travellers."
692 13| Without transgression, without forgetfulness,~Following the ancient statutes." ~
693 25| antiquity loved virtue and forgot their power. And shall an
694 4 | Mencius, 'The princes have formed many plans to attack me: --
695 25| respect, and observe all forms of ceremony, they were not
696 24| the millet. There are no fortified cities, no edifices, no
697 4 | people of Ch'î are going to fortify Hsieh. The movement occasions
698 4 | dignity. A prince lays the foundation of the inheritance, and
699 15| virtues of those kings, those founders of the three dynasties,
700 15| everywhere with it as a fountain from which things flow.
701 12| and will take only one fowl a month, until next year,
702 10| passing by them, they saw foxes and wild-cats devouring
703 28| sounds, the nose to desire fragrant odours, and the four limbs
704 24| the midst of his building frames; Chiâo-ko from his fish
705 7 | may not I therefore act freely and without any constraint,
706 25| were not permitted to come frequently and visit them. If they
707 23| have been unfilial, and to fret and foam in such a manner
708 23| to act like water which frets and foams about a stone
709 25| flood.'~2. 'They are the friendless minister and concubine's
710 9 | nine squares render all friendly offices to one another in
711 27| the establishment of the frontier-gates was to guard against violence.~
712 6 | market-place.~3. 'If, at his frontier-passes, there be an inspection
713 15| in Chû-fang, removed to Fû-hsiâ, and died in Ming-t'iâo; --
714 19| Hâu-ship, and was called a FÛ-YUNG.~5. 'The Chief ministers
715 22| save a whole waggon-load of fuel which was on fire, and when
716 3 | but the grass-cutters and fuel-gatherers had the privilege of entrance
717 25| the countenance, a rich fullness in the back, and the character
718 21| without. We are certainly furnished with them. And a different
719 | further
720 13| that the three dynasties gained the throne, and by not being
721 3 | an-fû Came in the morning, galloping his horse, By the banks
722 16| his parents. The second is gambling and chess-playiDg, and being
723 24| Î-wû from the hands of his gaoler; Sun-shû Âo from his hiding
724 9 | three years' mourning, the garment of coarse cloth with its
725 1 | looking round at the large geese and deer, said, 'Do wise
726 4 | served them with pearls and gems, and still he suffered from
727 22| you let it have one day's genial heat, and then expose it
728 16| displeased, and said, 'All the gentlemen have spoken with me. There
729 15| between them -- those so gifted and the ungifted -- will
730 26| earnestly to the pursuit of giin, is a disciple of Chih.~
731 28| man do not go below the girdle, but great principles are
732 28| confounded with the corn. I hate glib-tonguedness, lest it be confounded with
733 3 | his people together, and glorify his State.~With bows and
734 11| of my work appear, more glorious than that of T'ang."~7. '
735 28| forthwith perversities and glossed wickedness disappear.'~1.
736 10| devouring them, and flies and gnats biting at them. The perspiration
737 11| the arrangements of the go-betweens, shall bore holes to steal
738 21| then came the cattle and goats and browsed upon them. To
739 16| of rice, and his single gourd-dish of water; other men could
740 7 | and said to him, 'Of the governors of your Majesty's cities
741 7 | reason in your declining the governorship of Ling-ch'iû, and requesting
742 25| of these things. A sage governs the kingdom so as to cause
743 21| as the flesh of grass and grain-fed animals is agreeable to
744 3 | people, and calling the Grand music-master, he said to
745 5 | object of veneration to my grandfather." "Then," pursued the other, "
746 13| filial sons and affectionate grandsons, they will not be able in
747 18| Chih-ch'î remonstrated against granting their request, and Pâi-lî
748 22| or the tsze, which may be grasped with both hands, perhaps
749 16| exposed to the outbreak of the grass-carriers, there were seventy disciples
750 3 | seventy square lî, but the grass-cutters and fuel-gatherers had the
751 4 | the coffin, the shell, the grave-clothes, and the shroud.' Yo-chAng
752 9 | talents and virtue will be gravely complaisant and economical,
753 3 | individual. I beg your Majesty to greaten it.~6. 'It is said in the
754 11| punish him: -- so shall the greatness of my work appear, more
755 12| nor see. Over a well there grew a plum-tree, the fruit of
756 3 | rejoice in his joy; when he grieves at the sorrow of his people,
757 19| acknowledged. How can the grift of a robber be received?'~
758 21| sowing likewise the same, it grows rapidly up, and, when the
759 2 | people should think you were grudging the animal. When you changed
760 20| Such an one as that of guarding the gates, or beating the
761 15| spring of water; how it gushes out! It rests not day nor
762 13| Benevolence is the tranquil habitation of man, and righteousness
763 19| duke P'ing of Tsin with Hâi T'ang: -- when T'ang told
764 5 | in his loose garments of hair-cloth? If, on self-examination,
765 28| their pomp and display.~2. 'Halls several times eight cubits
766 15| was like uniting the two halves of a seal.~4. 'When we examine
767 6 | individual idler, or of the hamlet's quota of cloth, then all
768 25| Heaven.~4. 'Death under handcuffs and fetters cannot correctly
769 10| replied, 'The business of the handicraftsman can by no means be carried
770 10| virtuous man, in interring in a handsome manner their parents, act
771 5 | they were relieved from hanging by the heels. With half
772 28| appointment of Heaven."'~1. Hâo-shang Pû-hâi asked, saying, 'What
773 18| from Heaven. That which happens without man's causing is
774 9 | outlines of the system. Happily to modify and adapt it depends
775 24| offices were filled with hard taxgatherers: then the prince
776 24| it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies
777 12| in a flattering way, toil harder than the summer labourer
778 3 | catchers of pheasants and hares. He shared it with the people,
779 4 | If your Majesty will make haste to issue an ordinance, restoring
780 7 | was a little better, and hastened to go to court. I do not
781 4 | followed him looked like crowds hastening to market.~2. 'On the other
782 28| school are ambitious, but hasty. They are for advancing
783 6 | situation.~2. 'If a prince hates disgrace, the best course
784 19| land was attached to some Hâu-ship, and was called a FÛ-YUNG.~
785 13| fish into them, and the hawk aids the thickets, driving
786 16| been covered with a filthy head-dress, all people would have stopped
787 5 | thereupon raise the ruler to the headship of all the other princes,
788 20| inquiries after Tsze-sze's health, and sent him frequent presents
789 18| as my people see; Heaven hears according as my people hear."'~
790 22| it have one day's genial heat, and then expose it for
791 26| functions belong to our Heaven-conferred nature. But a man must be
792 25| which he establishes his Heaven-ordained being.'~1. Mencius said, '
793 28| and the fulfilling the heavenly course by the sage; -- these
794 26| body from the crown to the heel, he could have benefited
795 5 | relieved from hanging by the heels. With half the merit of
796 21| Lung said, "If a man make hempen sandals without knowing
797 28| There are the exactions of hempen-cloth and silk, of grain, and
798 11| yellow silks, saying -- "From henceforth we shall serve the sovereign
799 25| Each family had five brood hens and two brood sows, which
800 27| eating his parched grain and herbs was as if he were to be
801 | hereby
802 7 | must be without a moment's hesitation. When the prince's order
803 4 | object. Should the workmen hew them so as to make them
804 10| and beasts fled away to hide themselves. Yü separated
805 24| gaoler; Sun-shû Âo from his hiding by the sea-shore; and Pâi-lî
806 17| twenty and eight years, the Highly Meritorious one deceased.
807 5 | second son, their Royal Highnesses Pî-kan and the viscount
808 6 | awell. Since no one can hinder us from being so, if yet
809 26| case where there was no hindrance, and the party neglected
810 15| Tsin, and its style was the historical. Confucius said, "Its righteous
811 19| your strength, but that you hit the mark is not owing to
812 9 | prince said again to Zan Yû, 'Hitherto, I have not given myself
813 15| night. It fills up every hole, and then advances, flowing
814 26| proceed till it has filled the hollows in its course. The student
815 25| gather to.~2. 'Around the homestead with its five mâu, the space
816 24| nourished and the worthy honoured; and if men of distinguished
817 1 | replied Mencius, 'you need not hope that your people will become
818 4 | reason for this but that they hoped to escape out of fire and
819 16| husband that we looked up in hopeful contemplation, with whom
820 27| heads to the earth, like the horns of animals falling off.~
821 9 | have found my pleasure in horsemanship and sword-exercise, and
822 19| also enjoyed there Shun's hospitality. Alternately he was host
823 23| and persuade him to cease hostilities. If he shall not be pleased
824 3 | anger,~And he marshalled his hosts,~To stop the march to Chü,~
825 21| In winter we drink things hot, in summer we drink things
826 12| another, who pulled down houses to make ponds and lakes,
827 23| of Yü did not use Pâi-lî Hsi, and thereby lost his State.
828 8 | Mencius left Ch'î, he dwelt in Hsiû. There Kung-sun Ch'âu asked
829 3 | the king T'âi served the Hsün-yü, and Kâu-ch'ien served Wû.~
830 1 | people suffering neither from hunder nor cold, -- did not attain
831 22| is a man who resembles a hurried wolf.~5. 'A man who only
832 5 | displayed in th government, are hurtful to the conduct of affairs.
833 3 | or widowers; the old and husbandless, or widows; the old and
834 23| Ch'î Liang bewailed their husbands so skilfully, that they
835 17| every sound of music was hushed." Confucius said, "There
836 23| prolonged manner. The wives of Hwa Châu and Ch'î Liang bewailed
837 10| regulated the course of the Hwâ'i and Sze, so that they
838 12| waters of the Chiang, the Hwâi, the Ho, and the Han, and
839 17| to Yû-châu; he sent away Hwan-tâu to the mountain Ch'ung;
840 17| him, and rejoiced. What hypocrisy was there?'~1. Wan Chang
841 17| then, did not Shun rejoice hypocritically?' Mencius replied, 'No.
842 5 | it is so? There is the Ch'î-lin among quadrupeds, the Fang-hwang
843 18| appointed sovereign, Wâ'i-ping reigned two years, and Chung-zin
844 28| to T'âi-kung Wang and San Î-shang, they saw Wan, and so knew
845 24| his fish and salt; Kwan Î-wû from the hands of his gaoler;
846 15| Fû-hsiâ, and died in Ming-t'iâo; -- a man near the wild
847 6 | the fine of the individual idler, or of the hamlet's quota
848 26| he called out at the T'ieh-châi gate, and the keeper said, "
849 26| even through an orifice illuminates.~3. 'Flowing water is a
850 9 | object of them all is to illustrate the human relations. When
851 1 | posterity who first made wooden images to bury with the dead? So
852 5 | a sufficient object for imitation?'~8. Mencius said, 'How
853 26| that of five months; to eat immoderately and swill down the soup,
854 25| back, and the character imparted to the four limbs. Those
855 10| mere husbandman.~10. 'The imparting by a man to others of his
856 21| feeling of commiseration implies the principle of benevolence;
857 17| Thus a superior man may be imposed on by what seems to be as
858 14| take in grassy commons, imposing the cultivation of the ground
859 17| San-miâo in San-wei; and he imprisoned Kwân on the mountain Yü.
860 11| even was ashamed to bend improperly to the will of such an archer.
861 13| How otherwise can you improve the kingdom?~You will only
862 21| good, the blame cannot be imputed to their natural powers.~
863 20| summoned in a way which is inappropriate to his character!~8. 'When
864 14| alienation there is nothing more inauspicious.'~1. Mencius said, 'Of services,
865 21| as much, and some to an incalculable amount: -- it is because
866 17| this arrangement, he came incessantly to court, as is signified
867 5 | is not to be obtained by incidental acts of righteousness. If
868 19| Î Yin was the one most inclined to take office; Hûi of Liû-hsiâ
869 19| ruler had ten times as much income as his Chief ministers;
870 21| lose it. Its outgoing and incoming cannot be defined as to
871 22| not painful, nor does it incommode his business, and yet if
872 24| nature, and supplies his incompetencies.~3. 'Men for the most part
873 8 | Formerly, in ignorance of my incompetency, you employed me to superintend
874 13| himself, -- My sovereign is incompetent to this, may be said to
875 13| and interior walls being incomplete, and the supply of weapons
876 6 | their gifts, counting it inconsistent with his purity to go to
877 14| being done. The teacher must inculcate what is correct. When he
878 1 | to education in schools, inculcating in it especially the filial
879 2 | educatlon in schools, -- the inculcation in it especially of the
880 17| human relations, thereby incurring their resentment. On this
881 18| does not speak. It simply indicated its will by his personal
882 28| villages at whom I feel no indignation, when they pass my door
883 6 | themselves to pleasure and indolent indifference; -- they in
884 8 | Tsze-sze, he could not have induced Tsze-sze to remain with
885 18| The people of Tsin, by the inducement of a round piece of jade
886 12| lusts. Unemployed scholars indulge in unreasonable discussions.
887 3 | dare any under heaven give indulgence to their refractory wills?"
888 21| ripe. Although there may be inequalities of produce, that is owing
889 24| punishment, but did not himself inflict it, while the princes inflicted
890 24| inflict it, while the princes inflicted the punishment, but did
891 21| propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without. We
892 25| between him and the rude inhabitants of those remote hills appeared
893 4 | lays the foundation of the inheritance, and hands down the beginning
894 12| time, Yang Ho had taken the initiative; -- how could Confucius
895 24| with the blood. The first injunction in their agreement was, -- "
896 18| appointment on him with specific injunctions?'~4. Mencius replied, 'No.
897 28| which makes him shrink from injuring others, his benevolence
898 19| princes, disliking them as injurious to themselves, have all
899 3 | Yen replied, "An excellent inquiry! When the Son of Heaven
900 19| resemblance to the utmost, and insisting on the most refined idea
901 3 | markets, strangers were inspected, but goods were not taxed:
902 27| with them, and felt their inspiring influence!'~Mencius said, '
903 2 | Now if your Majesty will institute a government whose action
904 3 | wants, and king Wan, in the institution of his government with its
905 9 | all those educational institutions, -- for the instruction
906 10| and then said, 'He has instructed me.'~
907 25| nourish those animals, and his instructing the wives and children,
908 21| mind; and when this proves insufficient for that purpose, the nature
909 22| they are offered with an insulting voice, even a tramper will
910 2 | benevolent man?~21. 'Therefore an intelligent ruler will regulate the
911 14| he would answer "No;" -- intending to bring them in again.
912 5 | tyrannical government were more intense than the present. The hungry
913 2 | my Master, to assist my intentions. Teach me clearly; although
914 10| there were some who did not inter their parents. When their
915 11| If you do not have an intercommunication of the productions of labour,
916 1 | seasons of husbandry be not interfered with, the grain will be
917 13| is not the exterior and interior walls being incomplete,
918 9 | ceremonies.' When the time of interment arrived, they came from
919 10| son and virtuous man, in interring in a handsome manner their
920 23| foams about a stone that interrupts its course. To increase
921 4 | generations. Your Majesty has no intimate ministers even. Those whom
922 15| anticipates with recommendatory intimations his arrival in the country
923 20| who have not presented the introductory present and become ministers,
924 12| flowing out of their channels, inundated the Middle Kingdom. Snakes
925 24| is called an inundation. Inundating waters are a vast waste
926 11| shall be put forth, and, invading the territories of Shang,
927 18| was not so. This story was invented by men fond of strange things.~
928 18| was not so. Those are the inventions of men fond of strange things.~
929 16| stars so distant. If we have investigated their phenomena, we may,
930 18| thrice sent messengers to invite him. After this, with the
931 11| princes without waiting to be invited, what can be thought of
932 18| those silks with which T'ang invites me? Is it not best for me
933 2 | when I turned my thoughts inward, and examined into it, I
934 10| and does he plough with an iron share?' 'Yes.' 'Does he
935 21| different from that of the irrational animals, and when people
936 25| banks, and flowing out in an irresistible flood.'~2. 'They are the
937 3 | duke Ching was pleased. He issued a proclamation throughout
938 9 | dwelt in the shed, without issuing an order or a caution. All
939 16| all this, came in with a jaunty air, carrying himself proudly
940 4 | of the kingdom is indeed jealously afraid of the strength of
941 5 | and virtue, who gave their joint assistance to Châu in his
942 7 | was about to take a long journey. Travellers must be provided
943 8 | your side, and all my court joyed exceedingly along with me.
944 17| ease, then it swam away joyfully." Tsze-ch'an observed, "
945 22| and cultivates his sour jujube-trees; -- he is a poor plantation-keeper.~
946 28| refuses to break through, or jump over, a wall, his righteousness
947 12| brother Tâi received from Kâ a revenue of 10,000 chung,
948 12| the sovereign.~2. 'Twan Kan-mû leaped over his wall to
949 5 | the viscount of Ch'î, and Kâo-ko, all men of ability and
950 23| When Mien Ch'ü lived in Kâo-t'ang, the people in the parts
951 20| presume to do so.' 'Even the keepers of the gates, with their
952 12| These father-deniers and king-deniers would have been smitten
953 12| Kung-ming Î said, "In their kitchens, there is fat meat. In their
954 12| present of a live goose. He, knitting his eyebrows, said, "What
955 27| Because at the pivot the knob of Yü's bells is nearly
956 25| water and fire, yet if you knock at a man's door in the dusk
957 16| He then took his arrows, knocked off their steel points against
958 3 | said in the Book of Poetry,~Kû-kung T'an-fû Came in the morning,
959 24| displeasure, 'This is what I, Kû-Lî, do not understand.'~5.
960 16| years ago.'~1. The officer Kung-hang having on hand the funeral
961 23| government was in the hands of Kung-î, while Tsze-liû and Tsze-sze
962 3 | The reply was, 'Formerly, Kung-lîu was fond of wealth. It is
963 13| Lâu, and skill of hand of Kung-shû, without the compass and
964 17| San-wei; and he imprisoned Kwân on the mountain Yü. When
965 17| way: -- it speaks of being laboriously engaged in the sovereign'
966 12| toil harder than the summer labourer in the fields." Tsze-lû
967 11| millet and flesh for the labourers, who was thus slain and
968 26| superior men eating without labouring?' Mencius replied, 'When
969 17| a granary, to which, the ladder having been removed, Kû-sâu
970 28| and more. As to Î Yin, and Lâi Chû, they saw T'ang and
971 22| righteousness is man's path.~2. 'How lamentable is it to neglect the path
972 9 | presume not to join in the lamentation, he setting them this example.
973 16| dwelt in a mean narrow lane, having his single bamboo-cup
974 3 | the shore, till I come to Lang-yê. What shall I do that my
975 5 | of his virtue. After the lapse of a hundred ages I can
976 25| cannot be increased by the largeness of his sphere of action,
977 13| The power of vision of Lî Lâu, and skill of hand of Kung-shû,
978 9 | when speaking, always made laudatory reference to Yâo and Shun.~
979 13| benevolent. This is like a man laying hold of a heated substance,
980 4 | royal dignity. A prince lays the foundation of the inheritance,
981 16| be unfilial. The first is laziness in the use of one's four
982 22| as a matter of course it leads it away. To the mind belongs
983 14| who unite some princes in leagues against others; and next
984 8 | gave him no answer, but leant upon his stool and slept.~
985 12| sovereign.~2. 'Twan Kan-mû leaped over his wall to avoid the
986 28| pursuing a stray pig, the leg of which, after they have
987 6 | his government with its legal sanctions, and then even
988 12| far away also the tigers, leopards, rhinoceroses, and elephants; --
989 26| them but by completing one lesson after another.'~1. Mencius
990 25| own path.~5. 'Poor and not letting righteousness go; -- it
991 1 | and making the taxes and levies light, so causing that the
992 6 | market-place of his capital, he levy a ground-rent on the shops
993 13| and alert,~Pour out the libations, and assist in the capital
994 8 | however, I wish to take the liberty to submit the matter. The
995 27| war, and three thousand life-guards.~5. 'The king said, "Do
996 16| that the superior man has a life-long anxiety and not one morning'
997 11| within the four seas would be lifting up their heads, and looking
998 12| With your leave I will lighten, however, both the tax and
999 24| wish to make the taxation lighter than the system of Yâo and
1000 27| next; the sovereign is the lightest.~2. 'Therefore to gain the
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