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  • Finally she approached Dr. Pender and said, I keep finding references to this book called The Analects of Kelln.

    Pendragon Before the War D. J. MacHale 2009

  • Finally she approached Dr. Pender and said, I keep finding references to this book called The Analects of Kelln.

    Pendragon Before the War D. J. MacHale 2009

  • Equally significant in the Analects is the notion of the junzi (Japanese: kunshi), or the “prince.”

    Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008

  • But the Analects is a problematic and controversial work, having been compiled in variant versions long after Confucius's death by disciples or the disciples of disciples.

    Confucius Riegel, Jeffrey 2006

  • The Discourses, commonly known as the Analects, contain the sayings of the Sage as recorded by his disciples.

    Children of Borneo Edwin Herbert Gomes

  • The fourth Book of the Analects, which is on the subject of zan, or perfect virtue, has several utterances which are remarkable.

    The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856

  • His disciples wrote down his teachings in a book called the Analects, which focused on man's duties to obey a universal natural law.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • His disciples wrote down his teachings in a book called the Analects, which focused on man's duties to obey a universal natural law.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I have a small collection of "Analects" translations, and found that Legge's nineteenth-century version offers almost the same phrasing as Amida, although rather diffuse, and vaguer: "The rude tribes of the east and north have their princes, and are not like the States of our great land which are without them."

    languagehat.com: AMIDAWORLD. 2005

  • In the "Analects", Confucius is said to have condemned with indignation the suggestion of a disciple that the period of the mourning rites might well be shortened to one year.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

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