The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism

כריכה קדמית
Scribners, 1899

מתוך הספר

תוכן

מונחים וביטויים נפוצים

קטעים בולטים

עמוד 217 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ye would not.
עמוד 175 - Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
עמוד 90 - Heaven's plan in the production of mankind is this : — that they who are first informed should instruct those who are later in being informed, and they who first apprehend principles should instruct those who are slower to do so.
עמוד 125 - I have offered special sacrifice to God; I have performed the due services to the great earth; and I lead the multitude of you to execute the punishment appointed by Heaven. Heaven compassionates the people. What the people desire, Heaven will be found to give effect to.'' Do you aid me, the One man, to cleanse for ever (all within) the four seas. Now is the time! — It should not be lost.
עמוד 1 - Wan and Wu, taking them as his model. Above, he harmonized with the times of heaven, and below, he was conformed to the water and land.
עמוד 38 - ... of other men. Able to give its full development to the nature of other men, he can give their full development to the natures of animals and things. Able to give their full development to the natures of creatures and things, he can assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth. Able to assist the transforming and nourishing powers of Heaven and Earth, he may with Heaven and Earth form a ternion.
עמוד 50 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles : And every sense and every heart is joy.
עמוד 423 - Heaven in giving birth to the multitudes of the people, To every faculty and relationship annexed its law : The people possess this normal nature, And they (consequently) love its normal virtue.
עמוד 31 - Yii-i, in what was called the Bright Valley, and there respectfully to receive as a guest the rising sun, and to adjust and arrange the labors of the spring. 'The day,' said he, 'is of the medium length, and the star is in Niao ; — you may thus exactly determine mid-spring.
עמוד 120 - ... (The people of) Yin, small and great, are given to highway robberies, villainies, and treachery. The nobles and officers imitate one another in violating the laws, and there is no certainty that criminals will be apprehended.

מידע ביבליוגרפי