 | James Legge - China - 1861 - 630 pages
...understanding me."10 On one occasion the duke asked about government, and receivec the characteristic reply, " There is government when the prince is prince, and...the minister is minister; when the father is father, am the son is son."11 I say that the reply is characteristic. Once, whi-i Tsz-loo asked him what he... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1867 - 344 pages
...fabulous, though quoted in proof of Confucius' sage wisdom. This reference to them is more than enough. when the prince .is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son." l I say that the reply is characteristic. Once, when Tsze-loo asked him what he would consider the... | |
 | James Legge - Chinese literature - 1869 - 358 pages
...fabulous, though quoted in proof of Confucius' sage wisdom. This reference to them is more than enough. when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister...; when the father is father, and the son is son." * I say that the reply is characteristic. Once, when Tsze-loo asked him what he would consider the... | |
 | Alexander Williamson - China - 1870 - 488 pages
...thirty-sixth year, and being asked by the Duke about government, gave the following laconic answer : " There is government when the Prince is Prince, and...Minister, when the father is father, and the son is son."* Their tombs are only large mounds, and not far from the road, attesting the veracity of Chinese history.... | |
 | Ssǔ shu - China - 1870 - 392 pages
...make a difference.' " XL 1. The duke King, of Ts'e, asked Confucius about government. 2. Confucius replied, " There is government, when the prince is...minister is minister ; when the father is father, aud the son is son." 3. " Good ! " said the duke ; " if, indeed ; the prince be not prince, the minister... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1872 - 524 pages
...developed, good government will necessarily result. Once, when asked what constituted good government, he replied. "There is government when the prince is prince,...minister; when the father is father, and the son is son." Men, as they are born into the world and grow up in it, find themselves existing in the five relations... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1861 - 540 pages
...understanding me."10 On one occasion the duke asked about government, and received the characteristic reply, " There is government when the prince is prince, and...minister ; when the father is father, and the son is son."11 I say that the reply is characteristic. Once, when Tsz-loo asked him what he would consider... | |
 | 1874 - 850 pages
...ministers as to have seriously entertained the idea suggested by them of setting aside his eldest sou from the succession. Among the questions propounded...prince and the minister not minister ; the father not father and the son not son ; although I have the grain, shall I be able to eat it ? " The duke King... | |
 | Ernst Faber - Confucianism - 1875 - 148 pages
..."Government consists altogether in regulating, ie setting to right," J£ cheng, A. XII, 17 "This is achieved when the prince is prince and the minister is minister ; when the father is father and the son is son," A. XII, 11, 1, 2 (120) jftmi*. ILT- m 0. -%& s & # "But the prince must desire what is good, and the... | |
 | James Legge - China - 1875 - 366 pages
...fabulous, though quoted in proof of Confucius' sage wisdom. This reference to them is more than enough. when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister...; when the father is father, and the son is son." l I saythat the reply is characteristic. Once, when Tsze-loo askod him what he would consider the first... | |
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There is government, when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son. 
