The great God has conferred even on the inferior people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right.1 But to cause them tranquilly to pursue the course which it would indicate, is the work of the sovereign. China: Its History, Arts and Literature - Seite 62von Frank Brinkley - 1902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1879 - 708 Seiten
...intelligent Kings of Yin in Heaven." The duke of Chow, Ibid. V. Bk. xn. 18. GOD MADE MAN WITH A GOOD NATURE. "The great God has conferred even on the inferior people a moral sense." See above. "What Heaven has conferred is called the nature." See above. "The exercise of love between... | |
| Augustus Ward Loomis - 1882 - 444 Seiten
...All were under law to Him, and bound to obey His will. Even on the inferior people He has conferred a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right. All powers that be are from Him. He raises one to the throne and puts down another. Obedience is sure... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 326 Seiten
...is called THE SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION." A great monarch, in the eighteenth century, BC, proclaimed : "The great God has conferred even on the inferior...compliance with which would show their nature invariably right."i A poem of the ninth century BC commences thus : " Heaven, in giving birth to the multitudes... | |
| Samuel Beal - 1884 - 294 Seiten
...Shang-ti ; I dare not but punish him." When returned to his capital, he says : " The great Shang-ti has conferred, even on the inferior people, a moral...with which would show their nature invariably right." Closing his speech, he says : " The ways of Shang-ti are not invariable; on the good doers he sends... | |
| 1887 - 568 Seiten
...the fellow of God." God the Inspirer of the Moral Sense in Man. The announcement of Thang (BC 1754): "The great God has conferred (even) on the Inferior...with which would show their nature invariably right" The counsels of Eao-Yao (B. i . 2267): " Heaven hears and sees as our people hear and see: Heaven brightly... | |
| 1888 - 900 Seiten
...he was born, au ancient hero and king had proclaimed in China: "The great God has conferred on the people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right. To cause them tranquilly to pursue the course which it indicates is the task of tlu sovereign." Confucius... | |
| Edith Jemima Simcox - 1894 - 576 Seiten
...the throne. Thang announces after his victory over the house of Hia that " Great heaven has conferred on the inferior people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature to be invariably right. To make them tranquilly pursue the course which it would indicate is the task... | |
| Edward Payson Tenney - 1895 - 714 Seiten
...God," said T'ang, the founder of the Shang dynasty, eighteen centuries before the Christian era, " the great God has conferred even on the inferior people...course •which it would indicate is the work of the sovereign."2 V. The provinces are however .governed independently, under the central government, but... | |
| Confucius - 1895 - 146 Seiten
...anxious about, what is there to fear ? Confucian An., Yen Yuen (ch. iv.). a1. The Great God has conferred on the inferior people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right. Shoo King, Announcement of T'ang (ch. ii.). z2. A man may not be without shame. When one is ashamed... | |
| George Henry Bateson Wright - 1895 - 408 Seiten
...All were under law to him and bound to obey his will. Even on the inferior people he has conferred a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right. All powers that be are from Him, He raises one to the throne and puts down another I Obedience is sure... | |
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