 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...  The Chinese Classics - 323 psl.autoriai: James Legge - 1861Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Ssǔ shu - 1870 - 392 psl.
...Sun-shut L Gaou from his hiding by the sea-shore; and Pih-le He from the market-place. 2. " Thus, when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. 3. " Men for the most part err, and are afterwards able to reform. They are distressed... | |
 | James Legge - 1875 - 422 psl.
...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 psl.
...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,... | |
 | 1879 - 708 psl.
...be love which does not lead to strictness with its object?" Confucius, Analects. XIV. 8. "Thus when Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. * * * * "From these things, we see how life springs from sorrow and calamity, and death... | |
 | Augustus Ward Loomis - 1882 - 444 psl.
...gaoler; Sun-shuh Gaou from his hiding by the seashore; and Pih-le He from the market-place. " Thus, when heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. to reform. They are distressed in mind and perplexed in their thoughts, and then they... | |
 | 1885 - 672 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1886 - 492 psl.
...in trying to explain it. Bub Mencius struck a rich vein of golden truth when he said : (74) " When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature and supplies his incompetencies." This sounds wonderfully like a note from the Hebrew harp : " My son, despise not thou... | |
 | 1888 - 924 psl.
...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,... | |
 | Adele Marion Fielde - 1894 - 354 psl.
...greatest among the followers of Confucius, had the experience of his master in mind when he wrote: " When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature and supplies his incompetencies. From these things we see how life springs from sorrow and calamity, and death from... | |
 | William Arthur Cornaby - 1895 - 512 psl.
...sympathise in your wrongs, and share your coming joys." Chapter VITO. AN HISTORICAL ROMAKCF. " When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man,...stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies."— MENCIUS. THE evening following that devoted to Peh-ya and Tsz-ki was enlivened... | |
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