While there is a surplus of violent and external action, the epic, lyric, and reflective scenes picture an inner conflict and supply both aphorisms and a searching psychology.
His aphorisms have passed into our common speech and men call up many beautifully coined phrases from the depths of their consciousness about life and death, forgetful of their source, which are attributable to Landor.
Ever since the days of Franklin, the typical American has been a maker of aphorisms quaintly expressed.
It is with a view to this that it is said in the Yoga Aphorisms [ii.
According also to such aphorisms as, "Excepting cosmical operation because of occasion, and because of non-proximity.
Accordingly it is stated (in the aphorisms of Kanada, iii.
It has accordingly been said (in the aphorisms of Gautama, iii.
Thus the author of the aphorisms says:-- "He should worship with the six kinds of oblations, viz.
Nyaya school, as is declared by the author of the aphorisms in the words "proof, that which is to be proved, &c.
Nyaya School that God is a source of right knowledge,[208] as the author of the aphorisms has expressly declared (ii.
On the text of the 'Aphorisms on Love,' by Vatsyayana, only two commentaries have been found.
He says that he composed the work after reflecting on the aphorisms of love as revealed by the gods, and studying the opinions of Gonikaputra, Muladeva, Babhravya, Ramtideva, Nundikeshwara and Kshemandra.
In the present publication it is proposed to give a complete translation of what is considered the standard work on love in Sanscrit literature, and which is called the 'Vatsyayana Kama Sutra,' or Aphorisms on Love, by Vatsyayana.
Kama is to be learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on love) and from the practice of citizens.
He was the author of many epigrams and curt aphorisms which have become stock phrases in conversation, quoted in all classes of society wherever the English language is spoken.
In his aphorisms, embodying at once genuine wit and experience of life, they discovered not merely the American author, but the universal human being; these aphorisms they found worthy of profound and lasting admiration.
Among the many wise and weighty aphorisms of the Roman Bacon, few sound the realities of life more deeply than "Multa bona nostra nobis nocent.
This gentleman, whose name is one of the things we shall probably never know, with the cheerfully appropriating spirit of the French, was ready to claim most of Shakespeare's aphorisms for Rabelais.
The prose aphorisms of the work are intermingled with verse, the archaic trishtubh metre being frequently employed instead of the later clokas of Manu and others.
The term Dharma Sutra is, strictly speaking, applied to those collections of legal aphorisms which form part of the body of Sutras belonging to a particular branch (cakha) of the Veda.
It forms two (28-29) of the thirty sections of the great Apastamba Kalpa Sutra, or body of aphorisms concerning the performance of sacrifices and the duties of the three upper classes.
It is a collection of aphorisms representing the most beautiful, profound, and poetical thoughts in Buddhist literature.
It was one of Napoleon's aphorisms that "to have the right of using nations, you must begin by serving them well.
For aphorisms by or concerning Napoleon, see =Phrases=.
Evidence that Chapter IV is an addition to the original Abot is that it has a number of aphorisms which are repetitions of some found in Chapters I and II.
A second and probably later purpose was to present a body of practical maxims and aphorisms for the daily guidance of the people.
Preface To The Third Edition The Case Of Wagner: A Musician’s Problem Nietzsche contra Wagner Selected Aphorisms from Nietzsche’s Retrospect of his Years of Friendship with Wagner.
If we were to be credulous here, we should moreover be acting in direct opposition to Nietzsche’s own counsel as given in the following aphorisms (Nos.
Ouida's aphorisms on women, love, and modern society are somewhat more characteristic: Women speak as though the heart were to be treated at will like a stone, or a bath.
It was Nietzsche who said, in one of these striking aphorisms of his, "Sympathy only makes us feel bad and the person for whom we sympathize feel worse than before.
Although very influential in forming public opinion, and although containing many wise sayings and many striking aphorisms on government, they are, in the main, a forcible exposition of the opinions held by intelligent Republicans.
There are two or three aphorisms there which I think will be apt to be quoted fifty years hence, perhaps, as they are not quoted to-day.
He was author of two volumes of aphorisms concerning the practice of medicine, which had at his time the greatest repute.
He possessed great vigor of mind, with purity of manners and serenity of soul, and was the first to translate directly from Greek into Latin the aphorisms of Hippocrates and portions of the writings of Galen.
These aphorisms formed, says Littre, "a succession of propositions in juxtaposition, but not united.
We have observed that in Pudd'nhead's aphorisms Mark Twain was expressing his true opinions, the opinions of the cynic he had become owing to the suppression and the constant curdling as it were of the poet in him.
Nowadays a boy cannot follow out a single natural instinct without tumbling over some of those everlastingaphorisms and hearing from Franklin on the spot.
The proposition on each page was of the unique truth and the superhuman knowledge of the Church, and everywhere were interspersed more than perilous aphorisms and raging curses cast at the art of the last century.
In one of his aphorisms he wrote: "Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Certain of his aphorismsand memoranda each in itself constitutes an epitome of Mark Twain's creed.
Even the aphorisms that were essentially humorous lose value in that degraded spelling.
Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley.
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