 | William Arthur Cornaby - 1895 - 512 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies."— MENCIUS. THE evening following that devoted to Peh-ya and Tsz-ki was enlivened... | |
 | Confucius - 1895 - 146 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. Mencius, Kaou Tsze (pt. ii., ch. xv.). z6. Now they hate death and ruin, and yet delight... | |
 | James Legge - 1895 - 444 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies2.' Such have been the effects of Heaven's exercising some men with calamities ; but... | |
 | Zhidong Zhang - 1900 - 176 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies." A man born of sorrow and adversity is a true man. But the Chinese receive insult and... | |
 | Zhidong Zhang - 1901 - 182 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies." A man born of sorrow and adversity is a true man. But the Chinese receive insult and... | |
 | 1903 - 430 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies " (Mencius VI, II, 15.2, Legge p. 323 ; of., Epistle to the Hebrews, 2.10; 5.8; 4.15).... | |
 | Mrs. Howard Taylor - 1904 - 270 דפים
...with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, subjects him to poverty, and confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. . . . When men are distressed in mind and perplexed in their thoughts, they are aroused... | |
 | 1905 - 382 דפים
...with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, subjects him to poverty, and confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature and supplies his incompetencies. . . . When men are distressed in mind, and perplexed in their thoughts, they are aroused... | |
 | James Legge - 1907 - 280 דפים
...exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetenciesV Such have been the effects of Heaven's exercising some men with calamities; but if... | |
 | Huan-chang Chʻen - 1911 - 792 דפים
...toil ; expose his body to hunger; subject him to extreme poverty; and confound his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.* According to Mencius, all great men are developed by hardships. Therefore, the farmer,... | |
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Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, 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. It confounds his undertakings. By all these... 
