| James Legge - 1861 - 646 páginas
...movcablc frame, u% THE WORKS OF MENCIUS. V /I ^ ^ J* s£- >Cl>* » m m» m & ft m &w mw\ 2. "Thus, Avhen Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his in competencies. 3. " Men for the most part err, and are afterwards able to reform. They are distressed... | |
| James Legge - 1861 - 646 páginas
...effects of calamity and difficulties. He says: — "When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and...to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. Bv all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies."1... | |
| James Legge - 1875 - 422 páginas
...Pih-le He from the market-place. 2. " Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any one, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and 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,... | |
| James Legge - 1875 - 420 páginas
...Pih-le He from the market-place. ^2. " Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any one, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and 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,... | |
| 1885 - 672 páginas
...satoru.' Are translated as follows : " Then, 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 Lis body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty; and it confounds his undertakings. In all... | |
| 1888 - 924 páginas
..."Though a man may be wicked, yet, if ho adjust his thoughts, fast, and bathe, ho may sacrifice to God." " When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exorcises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger,... | |
| James Legge - 1895 - 444 páginas
...effects of calamity and difficulties. He says: — 'When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies2.' Such have been the effects of Heaven's exercising some men with calamities ; but... | |
| James Legge - 1895 - 608 páginas
...moveeble frame, in which the walla are feiined. 446 PT. II. CH. XV.] THE WORKS OF MENCIUS. 2. ' Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any...exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and hones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his... | |
| Zhidong Zhang - 1900 - 170 páginas
...and Generals whose characters were established by repeated contact with danger and difficulty: " Thus when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any...his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates hismind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies." A man born of sorrow and adversity is... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 442 páginas
...the heart there is nothing better than to make the desires few. — MENCIUS, Tsin Sin (ch. xxxv.). When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any...methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, ^nd supplies his incompetencies. — MENCIUS, Kaou Tsze (pt. ii. ch. xv.). You should ever stand in... | |
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