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Strana 253 - The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the Empire, first ordered well their own States. Wishing to order well their States, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge....
Strana 88 - Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, And a child that's born on the Sabbath day Is fair and wise and good and gay.
Strana 253 - Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole Empire was made tranquil and happy.
Strana 15 - My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also ; and now my son has met the same fate.
Strana 344 - Boards 4 o CHINA : THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE OF. A short Account of the Geography, History, Religion, Social Life, Arts, Industries, and Government of China and its People. By J. THOMSON, Esq., FRGS, Author of " Illustrations of China and its ^ People, &c.
Strana 342 - Bibles," &c. With Four full-page Illustrations and numerous smaller Engravings. Post 8vo Cloth boards 2 6 JEWISH NATION (A HISTORY OF THE), from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By EH PALMER, Esq., MA, Fellow of St. John's College, and Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, author of the "Desert of the Exodus,
Strana 245 - the silver cord is loosed, and the golden bowl is broken, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it".
Strana 14 - A host marches in attendance on the ruler, and stores of provisions are consumed. The hungry are deprived of their food, and there is no rest for those who are called to toil. Maledictions are uttered by one to another with eyes askance, and the people proceed to the commission of wickedness. Thus the Imperial ordinances are violated, and the people are oppressed, and the supplies of food and drink flow away like water. The rulers yield themselves to the current, or they urge their way against it;...
Strana 310 - After the death of Confucius, there was an end of his exquisite words ; and when his seventy disciples had passed away, violence began to be done to their meaning.
Strana 14 - There is no difference," was the reply. 4. Mencius then said, " In your kitchen there is fat meat ; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and on the wilds there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.