Beginning as the destroyer of an old, he became the founder of a new religion.
Confucius, though the founder of a religion and a reformer, was thoroughly conservative in his tendencies, and devotedly attached to the past.
This is an argument which Mr. Francis Barham might have used with more success, and by which he might have justified, if not the first disciples, at least the originalfounder of Buddhism.
The next glimpse of an authentic contemporaneous document is the inscription of Ardeshir, the founder of the new national dynasty of the Sassanians.
It may seem almost like a truism, that no religion can continue to be what it was during the lifetime of its founder and its first apostles.
Inquiries at the department of National Archives in Paris concerning Raoux, the founder of the afterwards famous firm of horn-makers whose model with pistons is used in the British military bands and at Kneller Hall, proved fruitless.
The importance of fire to mankind made Gibil-Nusku the founder of cities, and in general the god of civilization.
Sir Coutts Lindsay, thefounder of the Grosvenor Gallery, brought to it money, a talent for organisation, and a determination to show the best work in the right way.
Robert I, founder of the race, died at twenty-eight of a lingering illness.
In the time of the founder of the Tibetan dynasty the southern empire had been utterly defeated by his troops (354), and the south Chinese were no stronger now.
The founder of this system was Li An-shih, member of a Toba family and later husband of an imperial princess.
Only three times in Chinese history has a man of the peasantry become emperor andfounder of a dynasty.
Nor can he be described as the founder of a religion; for the cult of Heaven of which he speaks and which he takes over existed in exactly the same form before his day.
We shall meet him again at the beginning of the Hun rule over North China in 317, as founder and emperor of the first south Chinese dynasty, which was at once involved in the usual internal and external struggles.
Its founder died in 948, and his son, owing to his youth, was entirely in the hands of a court clique.
Its founderwas the -pontifex maximus- Quintus Mucius Scaevola (consul in 659, d.
The founder of this new species of literature, Lucius Pomponius from the Latin colony of Bononia, appeared in the first half of the seventh century;(14) and along with his pieces those of another poet Novius soon became favourites.
Even his brother Publius Mucius Scaevola, the founder of scientific jurisprudence in Rome, seemed not averse to the plan of reform; and his voice was of the greater weight, as he stood in some measure aloof from the parties.
I calculated that as two hundred piastres were assigned to each as a dowry in case of marriage, the founder must have calculated on two marriages a year at least, and it seemed probable that these sums were made away with by some scoundrel.
As ugly as the name, Besht, was the form of the founder and the order that he called into existence.
The founder of the house, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, was held in the highest esteem in Frankfort, and in consequence of the equalization had a seat in the Electoral College.
Moser, Moses, founder of the "Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews," 583.
But the Sabbatians had learned from their founder a means of appeasing the anger of Turkish rulers.
He was as opposed to Christianity as ever, for the reason which he had communicated to Lavater verbally, and which the latter should not have concealed, namely, that its founder had declared himself to be God.
A little chapel stands in a cleft of the rock below, to mark the miraculous escape of St. John Gualberto, founder of the monastery.
It was intended at first by the founder to be used by existing boys’ organizations, such as the Y.
The name of James McGill, the founderafterwards of McGill University, is significant, therefore, on this petition.
The Community of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd in Montreal is an offshoot of the original body founded in Caen, Normandy, in 1641, by Jean Eudes, founder of the Eudistes Fathers.
He was the founder of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Jacob Astor was originally employed by him there.
The Fraser Free Library during its long and useful career has not yet realized the desire of the founder and the first governors to become also a “museum and gallery, to be open to all honest and respectable persons.
Baden-Powell, the Chief Scout and founder of the movement, visited Montreal and addressed a meeting of the citizens in the arena with the mayor, Doctor Guerin, in the chair.
Meanwhile another rival to the North West Company was arising in the person of the founder of the Astor family.
JAMES McGILL A prosperous Montreal merchant, the founderof McGill University.
But this very time was also that in which the heresy whose leading doctrine was denial of the Godhead of the Church's founder came from a threatening of supremacy to an end.
The Life of Jean-Jacques Olier, Founder of the Seminary of St. Sulpice.
While the tribe was scattered, the name of itsfounder survived, and both as Simeon and Simon it was crowned with honour.
If you speak of Moses as the founder of the nation, you find a man who was utterly defeated and humiliated when he acted on his own resources, and successful only when he came in contact with supernatural might.
There was one present whom I shall always remember—the late Mr George Hattersley, the founder of the firm of George Hattersley & Sons, and the father of Alderman R.
Fierefiss, now a true believer, married Repanse de Joie, and they were the parents of a son named John, who became a noted warrior, and was the founder of the historic order of the Knights Templars.
It is from this historian that Wace drew the materials for the metrical tale of Brutus (Brute), the supposed founder of the British race and kingdom.
There was fighting at home and abroad; and after attributing the founding of all the principal cities to some ruler of this line, the historian relates the story of King Leir, the founder of Leicester.
If the world could follow it, the shepherds more than the sheep, then would it be nearer the standard set up by the Founder of Christianity, further from forms, falsehoods, luxuries.
John the Baptist, and the Blessed Giovanni Colombini, founder of that Order; all with infinite diligence.
Whereupon Lorenzo answered that he would rather have him become the founder of a new house through his own worth, than depend on others; at which Giuliano was well content.
That opportunity soon appeared, and the venerable founder of its missions, the advocate of its native population, the friend of all that concerned its present or spiritual welfare, took his last leave of the shores of New Zealand.
Into all these plans the archbishop of Canterbury cordially entered, and wisely and liberally left it to the able founder to select his agents and associates.
The celebrated Ignatius de Loyola, founder of the order of the Jesuits, carried this singular amalgamation of piety and of a belligerent spirit to such an extreme as, in our times, cannot but appear ridiculous.
This cardinal was the founder of the proud university of Alcala; he was the conqueror of Oran, and the great reformer in all branches of the administration and of the government.
This was young Cornelius Vanderbilt, son of the head of the house of Vanderbilt, and great-grandson of his namesake, the founder of the Vanderbilt fortune.
It is a matter of history that Samuel Gompers was the founder of the American Federation of Labor.
A writer in the Encyclopaedia Britannica speaks of him as "the true founder of the modern experimental method in physiology.
In fact, it is not saying too much to pronounce Berkeley as the originator and founder of Plant Pathology.
Nehemiah Grew, who, with the Italian botanist Marcello Malpighi, may be considered as co-founder of the science of Plant Anatomy, lived in stirring and troubled times.
From the above brief account it may perhaps be concluded that Berkeley was essentially a systematist and founder of new species.
