Confucius, the Great Teacher: A StudyK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890 - 314 pages |
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Page 56 - To whom thus Adam fervently replied : O woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them ; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created, much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force. Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power : Against his will he can receive no harm. But God left free the will, for what obeys Reason is free, and reason he made right...
Page 267 - Yet he, who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king ; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
Page ix - I had unconsciously acted on in all my translations of other classics, namely, that the written characters of the Chinese are not representations of words, but symbols of ideas, and that the combination of them in composition is not a representation of what the writer would say, but of what he thinks. It is vain therefore for a translator to attempt a literal version. When the symbolic characters have brought his mind en rapport with that of his author, he is free to render the...
Page 294 - So oft as I with state of present time The image of the antique world compare, When as mans age was in his freshest prime, And the first blossome of faire vertue bare, Such oddes I finde twixt those, and these which are, As that, through long continuance of his course, Me seemes...
Page xi - ... seem to demand, that its professors take some pains to render its introduction as attractive as possible, by a careful selection of the best subjects, and by treating these in such a manner as shall interest the greatest number of tasteful and cultivated readers. To weary the attention with a mere list of barbariphonous and uncouth names, to produce some bald and miserably verbal translation, to present the mere caput mortuum of something...
Page 313 - He is the son of a blind man. His father was obstinately unprincipled; his stepmother was insincere; his half-brother Seang was arrogant. He has been able, however, by his filial piety to live in harmony with them, and to lead them gradually to self-government, so that they no longer proceed to great wickedness.
Page xix - Vertu, composé, dans le vi* siècle avant l'ère chrétienne, par le philosophe Lao-tseu, traduit en français et publié avec le texte chinois et un commentaire 'perpétuel , par Stanislas Julien, "membre de l'Institut et professeur au Collège de France.
Page xi - ... patron. The interests and reputation of Chinese literature in Europe therefore seem to demand, that its professors take some pains to render its introduction as attractive as possible, by a careful selection of the best subjects, and by treating these in such a manner as shall interest the greatest number of tasteful and cultivated readers.
Page 272 - ... upright, intelligent and wise; avoid the licentious, talkative and vain. Disputation often breeds hatred. Nourish good principles with the same care that a mother would bestow on her new-born babe. You may not be able to bring them to maturity, but you will nevertheless be not far from doing so. The decrees of Heaven are not immutable, for though a throne may be gained by virtue, it may be lost by vice.
Page 271 - When a man has been helped round one corner of a square, and cannot manage by himself to get round the other three, he is unworthy of further assistance.