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wife and a young husband:'-this also is a thing to be ashamed of.
APPENDIX II.
6. 'Evil follows wading with (extraordinary) boldness (through the stream):'-but (the act) affords no ground for blame.
XXIX. (The representation of) water flowing on continuously forms the repeated Khan. The superior man, in accordance with this, maintains constantly the virtue (of his heart) and (the integrity of) his conduct, and practises the business of instruction.
I. 'In the double defile, he enters a cavern within it-he has missed his (proper) way, and there will be evil.
2. 'He will get a little (of the deliverance) that he seeks :'-he will not yet escape from his environed position.
3. 'Whether he comes or goes, he is confronted by a defile :'--he will never (in such circumstances) achieve any success.
XXVIII. Khăng-zze says on the Great Symbolism :-'The waters of a marsh moisten and nourish the trees. When here it is said that they destroy and extinguish the trees, their action is very extraordinary.' This explanation is very far-fetched; and so is what the same scholar says on the application of it. I need not give it here, nor have I found, or myself made out, any other more easy and natural.
Paragraph 2. Such an association is extraordinary:'-the characters also imply, perhaps, that it is successful.
Paragraph 3. The beam being broken, any attempt to sustain it will have no effect in supporting the roof.
Paragraph 5. The shoots produced in line 2 will grow into a new and vigorous tree. The flowers here will soon decay, and the withered trunk continue the same. For what will a young man marry an old woman? There will be no children;-it can only be from some mercenary object.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Legge |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1882 |
| Total Pages | 2405 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 43 MB |