 It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens ; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens. Such events are seen in the...  San Kuo: Or Romance of the Three Kingdoms - עמוד 17מאת Lo Kunan-chung, Guanzhong Luo, Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor - 1925תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1867 - 616 דפים
...that of divination. In the ' Doctrine of the Mean,' Confucius is said, by his grandson, to maintain that ' It is characteristic of the most entire ' sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family ' is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens. Such ' events are... | |
 | 1909 - 498 דפים
...history and to nature. With regard to the former we have a chapter which moves Dr. Legge to contempt. "It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish there are sure to be happy omens ; and when it is about... | |
 | Brian Brown - 1927 - 290 דפים
...he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, that can transform. It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about... | |
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