A Corner of Cathay: Studies from Life Among the ChineseMacmillan and Company, 1894 - 286 עמודים |
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CORNER OF CATHAY <span dir=ltr>Adele M. (Adele Marion) 1839-19 Fielde</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2016 |
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עמוד 208 - Now the man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others. 3. 'To be able to judge of others by what is nigh in ourselves; — this may be called the art of virtue.
עמוד 200 - With the slayer of his father, a man may not live under the same heaven ; against the slayer of his brother, a man must never have to go home to fetch a weapon ; with the slayer of his friend, a man may not live in the same State.
עמוד 207 - There are three things of which the superior man stands in awe. He stands in awe of the ordinances of Heaven. He stands in awe of great men. He stands in awe of the words of sages.
עמוד 205 - Where the solid qualities \ are in excess of accomplishments, we have rusticity ; \ where the accomplishments are in excess of the solid qualities, we have the manners of a clerk. When the accomplishments and solid qualities are equally blended, we then have the man of complete virtue." XVII. The Master said, " Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness, and yet live, his escape from death is the effect of mere good fortune.
עמוד 190 - Have you heard any lessons from your father different from what we have all heard ? " 2. Pih-yu replied, "No. He was standing alone once, when I passed below the hall with hasty steps, and said to me, ' Have you learned the Odes ? ' On my replying
עמוד 202 - Lu asked about serving the spirits of the dead. The Master said, 'While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve their spirits?' Chi Lu added, 'I venture to ask about death?
עמוד 215 - But the runner may be snared, the swimmer may be hooked, and the flyer may be shot by the arrow. But there is the dragon. I cannot tell how he mounts on the wind through the clouds, and rises to heaven. To-day I have seen Lao-tsze, and can only compare him to the dragon...
עמוד 204 - He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
עמוד 208 - The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.
עמוד 172 - Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any one, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; and it confounds his undertakings. In all these ways it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.