Greater China Region
Note that – in practice – names are typically written with the tone markings omitted, especially in English-language contexts. Similarly, although the apostrophes in Wade-Giles romanizations mark entirely distinct sounds, they are often omitted as well.
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“But wonder at a greater wonder, for to us
Created nature doth these things subdue,
But their Creator, whom sin nor nature tied,
For us, his Creatures and his foes, hath died.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
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“This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)