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Analects

noun
1.
A collection of excerpts from a literary work.  Synonym: analecta.






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"Analects" Quotes from Famous Books



... China may be traced to the example of Confucius himself. He acknowledges that "many sayings might be quoted from him, in which 'sincerity' is celebrated as highly and demanded as stringently as ever it has been by any Christian moralist," yet, on the strength of two passages in the Analects, and another in the "Family Sayings," he does not hesitate to say that "the example of him to whom they bow down as the best and wisest of men, encourages them to act, to dissemble, to sin." And what are these passages? In the first, Confucius applauds ...
— Chinese Sketches • Herbert A. Giles



Words linked to "Analects" :   extract, analecta, excerption, selection, excerpt



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