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Disciples (stylised as DISCIPLΞS) are an English production trio made up of Nathan V Duvall, Gavin Harryman Koolmon, and Luke Anthony McDermott based in South London.

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From all these considerations we may proceed with confidence to consider each separate Work, believing that we have in these Classics and Books what the great sage of China and his disciples gave to their country more than 2000 years ago.

According to that, the Analects were compiled by the disciples if Confucius coming together after his death, and digesting the memorials of his discourses and conversations which they had severally preserved.

We may believe, indeed, that many of the disciples put on record conversations which they had had with their master, and notes about his manners and incidents of his life, and that these have been incorporated with the Work which we have, but that Work must have taken its present form at a period somewhat later.

Parts of it, as chapters iii, xii, and xviii, carry us down to a time when the disciples had schools and followers of their own, and were accustomed to sustain their teachings by referring to the lessons which they had learned from the sage.

Book XI, the second paragraph of which is evidently a note by the compilers of the Work, enumerating ten of the principal disciples, and classifying them according to their distinguishing characteristics.

We cannot therefore accept the above account of the origin of the Analects,-- that they were compiled by the disciples of Confucius.

It is best to rest in the general conclusion, that it was compiled by the disciples of the disciples of the sage, making free use of the written memorials concerning him which they had received, and the oral statements which they had heard, from their several masters.

Analects, in my opinion, were made by the disciples, just like a record of remarks.

He applied to me in 1843 for Christian baptism, and, offended by my hesitancy, went and enrolled himself among the disciples of another missionary.

Accordingly he raised a mound, four feet high, over the grave, and returned home, leaving a party of his disciples to see everything properly completed.

In the meantime there came on a heavy storm of rain, and it was a considerable time before the disciples joined him.

Confucius as teaching his disciples important lessons from the manner in which he buried his mother, and having a design to correct irregularities in the ordinary funeral ceremonies of the time.

We are not to conceive of the disciples as forming a community, and living together.

Many disciples continued to resort to him, and the legendary writers tell us how he employed their services in digesting the results of his studies.

Confucius was practising ceremonies with his disciples, we are told, under the shade of a large tree.