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1001 22| there were nothing which he liked more than life, why should
1002 26| to learn them may well be likened to ascending the heavens, --
1003 13| square, the level, and the line, to make things square,
1004 10| one would impose on him; linen and silk of the same length
1005 19| was likely. With the duke Ling of Wei he took office, because
1006 7 | declining the governorship of Ling-ch'iû, and requesting to be
1007 8 | leave, but how dilatory and lingering was his departure, stopping
1008 8 | Am I like one of your little-minded people? They will remonstrate
1009 19| the character of Hûi of Liü-hsiâ, the mean become generous,
1010 16| contemplation, with whom our lot is cast for life; -- and
1011 12| give the reins to their lusts. Unemployed scholars indulge
1012 10| inundation. Vegetation was luxuriant, and birds and beasts swarmed.
1013 1 | the farm with its hundred mâ, and the family of several
1014 28| who say, "Why are they so magniloquent? Their words have not respect
1015 28| Their aim led them to talk magniloquently, saying, "The ancients!" "
1016 19| Here was the sovereign maintaining friendship with a private
1017 3 | any way to regulate one's maintenance of intercourse with neighbouring
1018 10| Princely indeed was Shun! How majestic was he, having possession
1019 14| sovereign on account of the mal-employment of ministers, nor to blame
1020 17| been able to marry. That male and female should dwell
1021 3 | who are called to toil. Maledictions are uttered by one to another
1022 23| there is the gift within, it manifests itself without. I have never
1023 4 | are going to build a large mansion, you will surely cause the
1024 10| cloth, and wears his own manufacture. Is it not so?' 'No. Hsü
1025 19| mâu. When those mâu were manured, the best husbandmen of
1026 9 | sufficient to repay the manuring of the fields, this system
1027 3 | granaries, and those who marched had their bags of provisions.
1028 3 | is different. -- A host marches in attendance on the ruler,
1029 8 | mound.~7. '"Of old time, the market-dealers exchanged the articles which
1030 2 | goods in your Majesty's market-places, and all travelling strangers
1031 26| alter or do away with the marking-line. Î did not, for the sake
1032 18| a minister of Châu, the marquis of Ch'an.~4. 'I have heard
1033 20| there are times when one marries on that account.~2. 'He
1034 13| ground of a stream or a marsh." Can he be pronounced wise,
1035 3 | blazed with anger,~And he marshalled his hosts,~To stop the march
1036 27| say -- "I am skilful at marshalling troops, I am skilful at
1037 28| that being correct, the masses are roused to virtue. When
1038 22| amount of benevolence.'~2. 'A master-workman, in teaching others, uses
1039 5 | said, 'How can king Wan be matched? From T'ang to Wû-ting there
1040 5 | passion-nature: -- It is the mate and assistant of righteousness
1041 10| sandals of hemp and wove mats for a living.~2. At the
1042 10| of grain were brought to maturity, the people all obtained
1043 | maybe
1044 10| should prepare their own meals, morning and evening, while
1045 16| was a minister; -- in a meaner place. If the philosophers
1046 | meantime
1047 2 | light, and what heavy. By measuring, we know what things are
1048 9 | the Book of History, "If medicine do not raise a commotion
1049 15| it on the left and right, meeting everywhere with it as a
1050 5 | Tsze-chang had each one member of the Sage. Zan Niû, the
1051 5 | and Yen Yüan had all the members, but in small proportions.
1052 25| How can it be said that he mends society but in a small way!'~
1053 2 | Majesty's fields, and all the merchants, both travelling and stationary,
1054 6 | to him with very proper messages, he would not receive their
1055 19| proclaims its close. The metal sound commences the blended
1056 23| his abrupt manner. When Mien Ch'ü lived in Kâo-t'ang,
1057 25| and manifestation are a mild harmony appearing in the
1058 17| that in the ode called "The Milky Way," --~Of the black-haired
1059 28| saying, 'Which is best, -- minced meat and broiled meat, or
1060 15| to Fû-hsiâ, and died in Ming-t'iâo; -- a man near the wild
1061 6 | robes and court cap amid mire and ashes. Pursuing the
1062 3 | well;~But alas! for the miserable and solitary!"' ~4. The
1063 15| Mencius said, 'What future misery have they and ought they
1064 6 | himself and then shoots. If he misses, he does not murmur against
1065 7 | about the matters of your mission?' Mencius replied, 'There
1066 16| to take it is contrary to moderation. When it appears proper
1067 9 | of the system. Happily to modify and adapt it depends on
1068 6 | benevolent, is like hating moisture and yet living in a low
1069 7 | answer must be without a moment's hesitation. When the prince'
1070 25| The able and virtuous monarchs of antiquity loved virtue
1071 8 | seekers of these, tried to monopolize the conspicuous mound.~7. '"
1072 27| floated the pestles of the mortars?"'~1. Mencius said, 'There
1073 | mostly
1074 20| displeased; and at length, having motioned to the messenger to go outside
1075 2 | importance to estimate the motions of the mind. I beg your
1076 2 | in your discovery of my motive. I indeed did the thing,
1077 12| an earthworm eats the dry mould above, and drinks the yellow
1078 5 | the T'âi mountain among mounds and ant-hills, and rivers
1079 1 | nourish their living and mourn for their dead, without
1080 9 | his countenance and the mournfulness of his wailing and weeping.~
1081 12| after swallowing three mouthfuls, he recovered his sight
1082 19| as if he were to sit amid mud and coals with his court
1083 13| like the having to seek for mugwort three years old, to cure
1084 2 | essential step to it?~24. 'Let mulberry-trees be planted about the homesteads
1085 11| this.~3. 'Because of his murder of this boy, T'ang proceeded
1086 4 | when one of his favourites, named Tsang Ts'ang, stopped him,
1087 19| and three others whose names I have forgotten. With those
1088 24| î, and get possession of Nan-yang, the thing ought not to
1089 6 | Mencius said, 'Po-î was narrow-minded, and Hûi of Liû-hsiâ was
1090 6 | will not manifest either narrow-mindedness, or the want of self-respect.'~
1091 16| All who speak about the natures of things, have in fact
1092 26| holding that medium, he is nearer the right. But by holding
1093 27| the knob of Yü's bells is nearly worn through.'~3. Mencius
1094 28| The words should all be necessarily sincere, not with any desire
1095 20| assist the people in their necessities.'~3. Chang pursued, 'Why
1096 2 | towards him with outstretched necks. Such being indeed the case,
1097 22| a plantation-keeper, who neglects his wû and chiâ, and cultivates
1098 4 | you of the distress. Thus negligent have the superiors in your
1099 6 | seek the praise of their neighbours and friends, nor from a
1100 6 | the window and door of my nest;~Now, I thought, ye people
1101 12| the low grounds they made nests for themselves on the trees
1102 8 | and left, to catch in his net the whole gain of the market.
1103 1 | than can be eaten. If close nets are not allowed to enter
1104 | Nevertheless
1105 22| in the supremacy of the nobler part of his constitution,
1106 10| Châu-kung and Chung-nE, he came northwards to the Middle Kingdom and
1107 28| desire pleasant sounds, the nose to desire fragrant odours,
1108 16| would have stopped their noses in passing her.~2. 'Though
1109 4 | families which have been noted in it for generations. Your
1110 | nowhere
1111 13| the Shang dynasty,~Are in number more than hundreds of thousands,~
1112 8 | years have elapsed. Judging numerically, the date is past. Examining
1113 26| alters the air, just as the nurture affects the body. Great
1114 14| righteousness is this, -- the obeying one's elder brothers.~2. '
1115 21| internal.'~3. The other objected, 'Suppose the case of a
1116 7 | are very large. Yet it is obliged to be given up and abandoned.
1117 25| own principles, and were oblivious of the power of princes.
1118 22| seeing do not think, and are obscured by external things. When
1119 16| himself, and is specially observant of propriety. The perversity
1120 12| order. Yü dug open their obstructed channels, and conducted
1121 12| Han, and the dangers and obstructions which they had occasioned
1122 6 | fields.~5. 'If from the occupiers of the shops in his market-place
1123 20| honourable situation and occupy a low one; he must decline
1124 2 | whether this incident really occurred.'~5. The king replied, '
1125 17| Therefore, those who explain the odes, may not insist on one term
1126 28| nose to desire fragrant odours, and the four limbs to desire
1127 23| on occasion of some small offence, not wishing to do so without
1128 3 | of the land. Whoever are offenders, and whoever are innocent,
1129 13| difficult; -- it lies in not offending the great families. He whom
1130 23| not equal to the things offeredred, we say there is no offering,
1131 | often
1132 6 | happiness;" ~and by the passage ofthe Tâi Chiah, -- "When Heaven
1133 2 | answered, Shall we then omit the consecration of the
1134 3 | cultivated for the government one-ninth of the land; the descendants
1135 24| these accounts a tax of one-twentieth of the produce is sufficient
1136 | onto
1137 5 | is to stand in awe of the opposing force. How can I make certain
1138 3 | violated, and the people are oppressed, and the supplies of food
1139 13| A ruler who carries the oppression of his people to the highest
1140 11| Shang, I will seize the oppressor. I will put him to death
1141 11| water, seizing only their oppressors, and destroying them.'~6. '
1142 21| position which he occupies. Ordinarily, my respect is rendered
1143 26| the design of his bodily organization.'~1. The king Hsüan of Ch'
1144 26| Mencius said, 'The bodily organs with their functions belong
1145 26| admitted even through an orifice illuminates.~3. 'Flowing
1146 3 | young and fatherless, or orphans: -- these four classes are
1147 28| of Yang naturally turn to orthodoxy. When they so turn, they
1148 13| 3. 'Accordingly, as the otter aids the deep waters, driving
1149 16| an-yû was exposed to the outbreak of the grass-carriers, there
1150 21| go, and you lose it. Its outgoing and incoming cannot be defined
1151 19| have learned the general outline of them.~3. 'The SON OF
1152 9 | 20. 'Those are the great outlines of the system. Happily to
1153 2 | would look towards him with outstretched necks. Such being indeed
1154 7 | and rivers; the kingdom is overawed, not by the sharpness and
1155 7 | if he do fight, he must overcome.'~1. As Mencius was about
1156 27| ensue drought, or the waters overflow, the spirits of the land
1157 11| services, so that one from his overplus may supply the deficiency
1158 24| ground was found left wild or overrun with weeds; if the old were
1159 13| and their benevolence overspread the kingdom.~6. 'Hence we
1160 13| of Poetry,~"When such an overthrow of Châu is being produced
1161 7 | return his charge to the owner? or will he stand by and
1162 3 | Chapter 3~1. Chwang Pâ'o, seeing Mencius, said
1163 11| cooked rice, millet, and paddy, and took their stores from
1164 2 | true reason? If you felt pained by its being led without
1165 22| out straight. It is not painful, nor does it incommode his
1166 26| thirst, in fact, injure their palate. And is it only the mouth
1167 28| man, that Pan-ch'ang Kwo!' Pan-chang Kwo being put to death,
1168 10| boilers and earthenware pans, and does he plough with
1169 27| Shun's manner of eating his parched grain and herbs was as if
1170 16| sure to come back having partaken plentifully of wine and
1171 27| I select two or three passages only, which I believe.~3. '"
1172 8 | get angry; and, with their passion displayed in their countenance,
1173 7 | course he must search for pasture-ground and grass for them. If,
1174 10| beasts pressed upon men. The paths marked by the feet of beasts
1175 3 | and that excursion, were a pattern to the princes.~6. '"Now,
1176 4 | demean yourself, prince, in paying the honour of the first
1177 9 | fifty mâu allotment, and the payment of a tax. The founder of
1178 23| higher than the pointed peak of a high building.~6. '
1179 27| Therefore to gain the peasantry is the way to become sovereign;
1180 28| ancients! Why do they act so peculiarly, and are so cold and distant?
1181 19| owing to your strength.'~1. Pêi-kung Î asked Mencius, saying, '
1182 28| have got it to enter the pen, they proceed to tie.'~Mencius
1183 13| and inferiors violate the penal laws. It is only by a fortunate
1184 5 | still his influence had not penetrated throughout the kingdom.
1185 26| are some whose virtue he perfects, and some of whose talents
1186 25| hearts under a sense of peril, and use deep precautions
1187 17| At this time, in what a perilous condition was the kingdom!
1188 13| are not benevolent ? Their perils they count safety, their
1189 1 | and then my eldest son perished; on the west we have lost
1190 12| practice of affairs, they are pernicious to their government. When
1191 24| are distressed in mind and perplexed in their thoughts, and then
1192 5 | returned the other. 'The perplexity of your disciple is hereby
1193 21| your younger brother be personating a dead ancestor, to which
1194 23| point of profit, offer your persuasive counsels to the kings of
1195 5 | position would your mind be perturbed or not?' Mencius replied, '
1196 3 | A sympathy of joy will pervade the kingdom ; a sympathy
1197 5 | passion-nature. The passion-nature pervades and animates the body. The
1198 27| flowed till it floated the pestles of the mortars?"'~1. Mencius
1199 3 | also had the catchers of pheasants and hares. He shared it
1200 16| from, and the value of a phenomenon is in its being natural.~
1201 5 | maintained, being merely his physical energy, was after all inferior
1202 7 | his sickness, and also a physician. Mang Chung replied to them, '
1203 15| mount Ch'î, and died in Pî-ying; -- a man near the wild
1204 23| guardian; but when he went from Ping-lû to the capital of Ch'î,
1205 1 | drive their people into pit-falls, or drown them. Your Majesty
1206 3 | those forty square lî are a pitfall in the middle of the kingdom.
1207 27| replied, 'Because at the pivot the knob of Yü's bells is
1208 12| after this men found the plains available for them, and
1209 1 | He measured it out and planned it.~The people addressed
1210 25| dwellings, his teaching them to plant the mulberry and nourish
1211 26| declines a dish of rice or a plate of soup. A man can have
1212 12| themselves on the trees or raised platforms, and in the high grounds
1213 17| there was Shun on his couch playing on his lute. Hsiang said, "
1214 6 | that he cannot develop them plays the thief with his prince.~
1215 2 | do these things cause you pleasnre in your mind?'~15. The king
1216 3 | ancient sovereigns had no pleasures to which they gave themselves
1217 16| come back having partaken plentifully of wine and flesh. I asked
1218 13| of his master.~4. 'For a plince who is ashamed of this,
1219 10| brother, Hsin, with their plough-handles and shares on their backs,
1220 11| Book of Rites, "A prince ploughs himself, and is assisted
1221 26| benefited the whole kingdom by plucking out a single hair, he would
1222 12| Over a well there grew a plum-tree, the fruit of which had
1223 14| treats men with despite and plunders them, is only afraid that
1224 24| hereditary, nor let officers be pluralists. In the selection of officers
1225 20| antiquity. He repeats their poems, and reads their books,
1226 23| made to be higher than the pointed peak of a high building.~
1227 24| was, -- "Follow no crooked policy in making embankments. Impose
1228 4 | employ a lapidary to cut and polish it. But when you come to
1229 13| wisdom. If he treats others politely, and they do not return
1230 28| them, and not look at their pomp and display.~2. 'Halls several
1231 1 | not allowed to enter the pools and ponds, the fishes and
1232 11| result, saying, "He is the poorest charioteer in the world."
1233 5 | for the collecting of a population. If its ruler will put in
1234 24| time, be was deprived of a portion of his territory; if he
1235 26| correspondence of their positions.'~1. Mencius said, 'To feed
1236 10| thus causing them to become possessors of themselves. Then follow
1237 15| age of the one sage was posterior to that of the other more
1238 24| thought of?~6. 'With but few potters a kingdom cannot subsist; --
1239 24| the five chiefs the most powerful was the duke Hwan. At the
1240 24| day, and not changing its practices, were to have the throne
1241 10| dark valleys.~16. 'In the Praise-songs of Lû it is said,~"He smote
1242 25| sense of peril, and use deep precautions against calamity. On this
1243 23| younger. To walk quickly and precede his elders, is to violate
1244 26| time to inquire about the precept not to tear the meat with
1245 26| 2. 'He who advances with precipitation will retire with speed.'~
1246 25| will not stand beneath a precipitous wall.~3. 'Death sustained
1247 1 | brought shame on my departed predecessors, and wish on their account
1248 20| this declining riches and preferring to be poor? Such an one
1249 25| Heaven.~3. 'When neither a premature death nor long life causes
1250 13| decaying and flourishing, the preservation and perishing, of States
1251 16| from other men is what he preserves in his heart; -- namely,
1252 7 | helping one's generation and presiding over the people, the other
1253 18| of Yâo, and had applied pressure to the son of Yâo, it would
1254 7 | of only one of these be presumed on to despise one who possesses
1255 26| answer him who questions me presuming on his nobility, nor him
1256 19| be maintained without any presumption on the ground of one's superior
1257 6 | who, using force, makes a pretence to benevolence is the leader
1258 12| the self-denying purity he pretends to? To carry out the principles
1259 8 | natural feelings of a man, in preventing the earth from getting near
1260 10| then there would not be two prices in the market, nor any deceit
1261 6 | hurt. So it is with the priest and the coffin-maker. The
1262 10| could find no name for it. Princely indeed was Shun! How majestic
1263 24| Châu-kung was invested with the principalily of Lû, it was a hundred
1264 24| âi-kung was invested with the principality of Ch'î, it was 100 lî square.
1265 10| by the feet of beasts and prints of birds crossed one another
1266 15| seize him and hold him a prisoner. He also pushes him to extremity
1267 3 | and fuel-gatherers had the privilege of entrance into it; so
1268 11| Is it not an extravagant procedure to go from one prince to
1269 3 | offices. Thus, neither of the proceedings was without a purpose. And
1270 28| palace. A sandal in the process of making had been placed
1271 3 | was pleased. He issued a proclamation throughout his State, and
1272 7 | send this to help you in procuring arms." Why should I have
1273 21| Book of Poetry,~"Heaven in producing mankind,~Gave them their
1274 11| intercommunication of the productions of labour, and an interchange
1275 6 | coffin-maker. The choice of a profession, therefore, is a thing in
1276 13| their calamities they count profitable, and they have pleasure
1277 3 | inquired about the great prohibitory regulations, before I would
1278 28| cubits high, with beams projecting several cubits; -- these,
1279 23| skilful at singing in his prolonged manner. The wives of Hwa
1280 5 | government in Ch'î, could you promise yourself to accomplish anew
1281 20| virtue, and can neither promote him to office, nor support
1282 24| of grain. Let there be no promotions without first announcing
1283 16| whole kingdom everybody pronounces K'wang Chang unfilial. But
1284 5 | the members, but in small proportions. I venture to ask, -- With
1285 4 | replied, 'This plan which you propose is beyond me. If you will
1286 4 | the rules of ceremonial proprieties and right are observed.
1287 3 | Chü,~To consolidate the prosperity of Châu,~To meet the expectations
1288 2 | people are not loved and protected, because kindness is not
1289 16| jaunty air, carrying himself proudly to his wife and concubine.~
1290 21| the mind; and when this proves insufficient for that purpose,
1291 11| behaved as an enemy to the provision-carriers," has reference to this.~
1292 28| of Heaven."'~1. Hâo-shang Pû-hâi asked, saying, 'What sort
1293 27| when the supreme authority punishes its subjects by force of
1294 11| and though he made eleven punitive expeditions, he had not
1295 22| compass and square, and his pupils do the same.'~
1296 19| the North sea, waiting the purification of the kingdom. Therefore
1297 8 | that he would rebel, and purposely appoint him to that office?'
1298 7 | as to the course which he pursues for himself.'~4. His disciple
1299 5 | considered that the slightest push from any one was the same
1300 15| him a prisoner. He also pushes him to extremity in the
1301 19| belong to him a robber, is pushing a point of resemblance to
1302 25| will not murmur at him who puts them to death.'~1. Mencius
1303 5 | There is the Ch'î-lin among quadrupeds, the Fang-hwang among birds,
1304 24| is more than a sufficient qualification for the government of the
1305 28| superior man. He was just qualified to bring death upon himself,
1306 10| things to be of unequal quality. Some are twice, some five
1307 10| grain, being the same in quantity; and with shoes which were
1308 16| of bravery, fighting and quarrelling so as to endanger his parents.
1309 19| food gathered from every quarter.' 'But why did he not go
1310 28| former.'~8. Chang pursued his questioning, 'Confucius said, "They
1311 1 | Hûi of Liang said, 'I wish quietly to receive your instructions.'~
1312 4 | die for it. Let him not quit it."~3. 'I ask you, prince,
1313 19| of village people, he was quite at ease and could not bear
1314 9 | another, there will be no quitting the district. In the fields
1315 6 | idler, or of the hamlet's quota of cloth, then all the people
1316 5 | and rivers and seas among rain-pools. Though different in degree,
1317 4 | drought to the clouds and rainbows. The frequenters of the
1318 21| nourishment afforded by the rains and dews, and to the different
1319 18| in for the skins of five rams, and fed his oxen, in order
1320 23| himself. You, master, were ranked among the three chief ministers
1321 5 | progress of virtue is more rapid than the transmission of
1322 21| likewise the same, it grows rapidly up, and, when the full time
1323 | rather
1324 26| cubits, and stop without reaching the spring, is after all
1325 11| great men? Have you not read the Ritual Usages? -- "At
1326 5 | the present. The hungry readily partake of any food, and
1327 20| repeats their poems, and reads their books, and as he does
1328 10| articles he can require are ready to his hand, being produced
1329 13| we do not, by what we do, realise what we desire, we must
1330 25| reciprocity, when he seeks for the realization of perfect virtue, nothing
1331 10| taught the people to sow and reap, cultivating the five kinds
1332 3 | the Book of Poetry,~"He reared his ricks, and filled his
1333 12| Spring and Autumn," and rebellious ministers and villainous
1334 8 | he would certainly have recalled me.~5. 'When I quitted Châu,
1335 25| vigorous effort at the law of reciprocity, when he seeks for the realization
1336 19| take their property, being reckless and fearless of death, among
1337 21| certainly lead all men on to reckon benevolence and righteousness
1338 24| the new ground was being reclaimed, and the old fields well
1339 13| kingdom will turn to him with recognition and submission.~3. 'It is
1340 15| He also anticipates with recommendatory intimations his arrival
1341 11| replied, 'They did. The Record says, "If Confucius was
1342 12| swallowing three mouthfuls, he recovered his sight and hearing.'~
1343 27| is but another word for rectifying. Each State wishing itself
1344 5 | strong. Being nourished by rectitude, and sustaining no injury,
1345 28| the true music. I hate the reddish blue, lest it be confounded
1346 4 | The duke said, 'No; I refer to the greater excellence
1347 25| how to nourish the old," refers to his regulation of the
1348 19| and insisting on the most refined idea of righteousness. When
1349 22| this, that he determine by reflecting on himself where it should
1350 24| and are afterwards able to reform. They are distressed in
1351 24| then they arise to vigorous reformation. When things have been evidenced
1352 3 | give indulgence to their refractory wills?" There was one man
1353 27| a tiger. The tiger took refuge in a corner of a hill, where
1354 20| more may we expect this refusal to go, when a man of talents
1355 6 | was not one who thought of refusing submission," ~is an illustration
1356 10| saying, 'A man of a distant region, I have heard that you,
1357 19| sacrifice according to the registers, and did not fill them so
1358 9 | dependence.~7. 'Lung said, "For regulating the lands, there is no better
1359 18| appointed sovereign, Wâ'i-ping reigned two years, and Chung-zin
1360 12| princes of the States give the reins to their lusts. Unemployed
1361 28| the past, and you do not reject those who come to you. If
1362 5 | the mind, not to seek for relief from passion-effort, may
1363 8 | go and see Mencius, and relieve your Majesty from that feeling.'~
1364 5 | with it, as if they were relieved from hanging by the heels.
1365 21| Suppose that his mouth in its relish for flavours differed from
1366 3 | In this way those who remained in their old seat had their
1367 5 | of time. There were still remaining some of the ancient families
1368 21| said, "Hold it fast, and it remains with you. Let it go, and
1369 16| Mencius having heard of this remark, said, 'According to the
1370 9 | so, but he may not seek a remedy in others, but only in himself.
1371 8 | Shan Hsiang had not had a remembrancer by the side of the duke
1372 9 | of the people may not be remissly attended to. It is said
1373 17| black-haired people of the remnant of Châu,~There is not half
1374 8 | their prince, and on their remonstrance not being accepted, they
1375 15| service.~4. 'Now-a-days, the remonstrances of a minister are not followed,
1376 18| be called wise? But not remonstrating where it was of no use to
1377 9 | I would ask you, in the remoter districts, observing the
1378 4 | temple of the State, and are removing to Ch'î its precious vessels.
1379 17| He did not wait for the rendering of tribute, or affairs of
1380 9 | being not sufficient to repay the manuring of the fields,
1381 20| the men of antiquity. He repeats their poems, and reads their
1382 18| three years. There T'âi-chiâ repented of his errors, was contrite,
1383 12| way of a good man;" and he replies, "With your leave I will
1384 11| ten birds. The favourite, reporting this result, said, "He is
1385 15| it calmly and firmly, he reposes a deep reliance on it. Reposing
1386 15| reposes a deep reliance on it. Reposing a deep reliance on it, he
1387 21| But does this condition represent the feelings proper to humanity?~
1388 2 | being able to do it, be represented? Mencius replied,'In such
1389 24| taxgatherers: then the prince was reprimanded. If a prince once omitted
1390 14| not be expected, and of reproach when the parties have been
1391 7 | governorship of Ling-ch'iû, and requesting to be appointed chief criminal
1392 24| sacrifice; there are no princes requiring presents and entertainments;
1393 19| robber, is pushing a point of resemblance to the utmost, and insisting
1394 22| is doing so, is a man who resembles a hurried wolf.~5. 'A man
1395 9 | nine-squares division, to reserve one division to be cultivated
1396 13| dwelling empty and do not reside in it, and who abandon the
1397 26| replied, 'When a superior man resides in a country, if its sovereign
1398 15| actions that they may be resolute; -- he simply speaks and
1399 8 | not till then, was my mind resolutely bent on returning to Tsâu.
1400 18| this, with the change of resolution displayed in his countenance,
1401 4 | deliberated together, and resolved to deliver Yen from their
1402 25| that the people use their resources of food seasonably, and
1403 16| respects others is constantly respected by them.~4. 'Here is a man,
1404 14| being removed, he would ask respectfully to whom he should give what
1405 14| were established in their respective duties. This is called great
1406 7 | and that he on whom is the responsibility of giving his opinion, when
1407 13| man love others, and no responsive attachment is shown to him,
1408 21| place again and again, the restorative influence of the night is
1409 4 | haste to issue an ordinance, restoring your captives, old and young,
1410 3 | said, "Is it a fault to restrain one's prince?" He who restrains
1411 3 | restrain one's prince?" He who restrains his prince loves his prince.'~
1412 24| making embankments. Impose no restrictions on the sale of grain. Let
1413 1 | and you do not make any restrictive arrangements. There are
1414 26| superior man may not be retained by such empty demonstrations.'~
1415 17| government, and to pay over its revenues to him. This treatment of
1416 16| along with the concubine she reviled their husband, and they
1417 4 | prince's coming will be our reviving!"~3. 'Now the ruler of Yen
1418 4 | like manner make another revolution.'~1. The people of Ch'î,
1419 12| also the tigers, leopards, rhinoceroses, and elephants; -- and all
1420 28| principles have a semblance of right-heartedness and truth. Their conduct
1421 28| Thou," "Thou," he will act righteously in all places and circumstances.~
1422 19| talents and virtue. The rightness in each case is the same.'~
1423 19| commencement of the music, and the ringing stone proclaims its close.
1424 21| come, it is all found to be ripe. Although there may be inequalities
1425 23| State where it prevailed rising to the royal sway. Why must
1426 11| men? Have you not read the Ritual Usages? -- "At the capping
1427 21| that our enjoyment of a roast is external?'~1. The disciple
1428 1 | The rulers of those States rob their people of their time,
1429 11| who was thus slain and robbed. What is said in the Book
1430 19| reception of it so acquired by robbery be proper?' Mencius replied, '
1431 19| now is one who stops and robs people outside the gates
1432 25| dwelling with the trees and rocks, and wandering among the
1433 19| When men kill others, and roll over their bodies to take
1434 9 | Then get up quickly on the roofs; --~Soon must we begin sowing
1435 26| holding it without leaving room for the exigency of circumstances,
1436 25| and knowledge. These are rooted in his heart; their growth
1437 9 | And at night twist your ropes;~Then get up quickly on
1438 24| 1. Mencius said, 'Shun rose from among the channelled
1439 25| mass, without a king Wan, rouse themselves.'~Mencius said, '
1440 25| then they will receive a rousing impulse. Scholars distinguished
1441 26| loves all equally. If by rubbing smooth his whole body from
1442 18| the duke of Yü would be ruined, and leaving him before
1443 13| not rule his people as Yâo ruled his, injures his people.~
1444 27| sufficient proof? Are the ruts at the gate of a city made
1445 3 | In bottomless bags, and sacks,~That he might gather his
1446 27| his place.~4. 'When the sacrificial victims have been perfect,
1447 16| he came to those who were sacrificing among the tombs beyond the
1448 3 | descendants of officers were salaried; at the passes and in the
1449 24| Impose no restrictions on the sale of grain. Let there be no
1450 24| Chiâo-ko from his fish and salt; Kwan Î-wû from the hands
1451 28| with which he receives the salutation, "Thou," "Thou," he will
1452 28| As to T'âi-kung Wang and San Î-shang, they saw Wan, and
1453 17| ung; he slew the prince of San-miâo in San-wei; and he imprisoned
1454 17| the prince of San-miâo in San-wei; and he imprisoned Kwân
1455 6 | government with its legal sanctions, and then even great kingdoms
1456 4 | them. When the people all sav, -- "This man won't do,"
1457 17| superior man. They are the sayings of an uncultivated person
1458 24| self-conceited he looks? He is sayinq to himself, I know it."
1459 17| up. Hsiang said, "Of the scheme to cover up the city-forming
1460 8 | retire indeed, but he again schemed that his son or younger
1461 25| contrivances and versatile schemes distinguished for their
1462 4 | from Heaven. How could that scion of the Tsang family cause
1463 12| however, carried their scrupulosity to excess. When a prince
1464 26| living some where along the sea-coast. There he would have been
1465 24| Âo from his hiding by the sea-shore; and Pâi-lî Hsî from the
1466 15| uniting the two halves of a seal.~4. 'When we examine those
1467 7 | grass for them. If, after searching for those, he cannot find
1468 26| influence descends like seasonable rain.~3. 'There are some
1469 25| their resources of food seasonably, and expend their wealth
1470 19| when he told him to be seated, he sat; when he told him
1471 3 | At that time, in the seclusion of the house, there were
1472 23| He who makes them only secondary objects, acts with a regard
1473 25| and find their pleasure in securing that tranquillity.~3. 'There
1474 13| inferiors do not learn, then seditious people spring up, and that
1475 8 | But he only, among the seekers of these, tried to monopolize
1476 | seeming
1477 18| Declaration, -- "Heaven sees according as my people see;
1478 15| deep reliance on it, he seizes it on the left and right,
1479 22| able to grow. It is but seldom that I have an audience
1480 27| Completion of the War," I select two or three passages only,
1481 4 | that situation, as having selected it. It was a matter of necessity
1482 6 | neighbourhood. If a man, in selecting a residence, do not fix
1483 24| language and looks of that self-conceit will keep men off at a distance
1484 24| good, men will say, "How self-conceited he looks? He is sayinq to
1485 22| Benevolence, righteousness, self-consecration, and fidelity, with unwearied
1486 6 | you defile me?" Therefore, self-possessed, he companied with men indifferently,
1487 18| air of indifference and self-satisfaction he said, "What can I do
1488 16| of goods and money, and selfishly attached to his wife and
1489 12| dresses threads of hemp to sell or exchange them.'~5. Mencius
1490 18| talents and virtue? As to selling himself in order to accomplish
1491 1 | because that man made the semblances of men, and used them for
1492 4 | their defence. Though I sentenced them to death for their
1493 17| If we simply take single sentences, there is that in the ode
1494 7 | shall we say that these sentiments are not right? Seeing that
1495 10| wife, attention to their separate functions; between old and
1496 26| If you want to know what separates Shun from Chih, it is simply
1497 6 | and yet ashamed of such servitude, is like a bowmaker's being
1498 4 | government; -- it is this which sets the arms of the kingdom
1499 12| no place where they could settle themselves. In the low grounds
1500 3 | chose the site for their settlement." ~At that time, in the
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