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THE NAME Confucius is the latinized form of the Chinese characters, K´ung Foo-tsze, meaning, The master, K´ung.
Introductory Note 1909
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Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Shansi remained seething with bandits and rebel bands, and the still unoccupied valley of the Yang-tsze-kiang remained fighting with an increasing unity under the leadership of the reorganized Kuomintang.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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The Master having visited Nan-tsze, Tsze-lu was displeased, on which the Master swore, saying, “Wherein I have done improperly, may Heaven reject me, may Heaven reject me!”
The Analects Confucius 2004
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He adopted Hwang-che for the style of his reign in 399, and the cyclical name of that year was Kang-tsze.
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-- Left for Wosung, anchoring in the Yang-tsze, after a quick run of four days across the Yellow Sea.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith
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"Well Cha," -- the Chinamen called me Cha-tsze and the boy had abbreviated it to Cha, -- "Akong says that he has a boat going up to the tea country to-morrow or next day, and wants me to go with him; may I?"
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He adopted Hwang-che for the style of his reign in 399, and the cyclical name of that year was Kang-tsze.
A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian
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Virtually buried in a raft of ethical tracts of the Middle Kingdom, all more or less repetitions of Lao-tsze's insistence on heaven's quiet way,
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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It takes its name from that of its founder, Lauo-tsze, or Lâo-tse, which lived in the sixth century before the Christian Era.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Hitherto every one has always believed that the Yang tsze Valley was par excellence the British sphere in China; and every one has always thought that that belief was enough.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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