 | 1880 - 1028 pages
...are told, he got up ; and, with big hands behind his back, dragging his staff, he moved abont by the door, crooning over : " The great mountain must crumble...break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant" 'After a little he entered the honse, and sat down opposite the door. Tsze-knng had heard his words,... | |
 | James Legge - 1861 - 630 pages
...was not far off. It took place on the 1 Ith day of the 4th month in the following year, BC 478. 19 Early one morning, we are told, he got up, and with...break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant." 15 See HIP ~ff, ~% -- £, and Analects, XIV. xxii. 16 Ana. XI. xii. 17 -^ ^, by surname Kacm (jgj).... | |
 | 1862 - 894 pages
...struck with terror." thereon, we extract entire from these learned and interesting Prolegomena : — " Early one morning, we are told, he got up, and with his hands behind his back, dragging hie staff, he moved about by his door, crooning over,— ' The great mountain must crumble ; The strong... | |
 | James Legge - 1867 - 344 pages
...death was not far off. It took place on the llth day of the 4th month in the following year, BC 478. Early one morning, we are told, he got up, and with...break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant." After a little, he entered the house and sat down opposite the door. Tsze-kung had heard his words,,... | |
 | William Rounseville Alger - 1867 - 420 pages
...he rose, and with his hands behind his back dragging his staff, moved about by his door, crooning, " The great mountain must crumble, the strong beam must...break, and the wise man wither away like a plant. In all the provinces of the empire there arises not one intelligent monarch who will make me his master.... | |
 | James Legge - 1869 - 358 pages
...death was not far off. It took place on the llth day of the 4th month in the following year, BC 478. Early one morning, we are told, he got up, and with...break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant." After a little, he entered the house and sat down opposite the door. Tsze-kung had heard his words,... | |
 | 1869 - 306 pages
...supervision of the others. Confucius acted thus. He went abont preaching his truth. Then, he said, " The great mountain must crumble, the strong beam must break, and the wise man wither away like a plant ; " and he died ; but his truth did not die. He had scattered it like rice seed upon the waters, and... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1872 - 524 pages
...and moved about by the bed, with his hands behind his back dragging his staff, saying to himself: — The great mountain must crumble ; The strong beam...break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant. - When Tsze King, one of his disciples, came to him, he said : According to the statutes of Hea, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1877 - 1012 pages
...disappointment, and disease that weighed on him when he crept about on his staff, saying, — " The mountain must crumble, the strong beam must break, and the wise man must wither like a plant." To a disciple he says : — " No one in the Empire would make me his master... | |
 | 1874 - 488 pages
...sharp antithesis, cp. Ps. x. 11, 14. u " Early one morning, seven days before his death, Confucins got up, and with his hands behind his back, dragging...break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant.'" (Legge, Prol. to Con/. An. p. 87.) 11 Adamoth: — the plural occurs here only. Note that the next... | |
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The great mountain must crumble ; The strong beam must break ; And the wise man wither away like a plant. 
