I ran up instantly to the drawing-room, leaving mamma to follow, for sagesof his kind have not many minutes to throw away.
Papa's confidence, therefore, was very reasonably justified, and the matter was looked upon by those sages of the lobbies who count the shadowy noses of unborn Houses of Commons as settled.
Plato and Socrates and the Seven Sages adorn this illustrious circle, which includes likewise the philosophers of Chaldea and Egypt.
There are representations of bewigged legal luminaries and bearded sages like Old Father Christmas or Santa Claus.
The venerable sages looked aghast as Zeuramaund uttered these ominous predictions; the whole council were dismayed at his words, and all fell again prostrate on the earth.
The sages arose as their royal master spake, and beheld with wonder the youthful countenance of their prudent Sultan.
This slave assures me that the sages of the caves of Denraddin have read in the stars of heaven that by her means the Sultan of India should be delivered from the enemy that oppressed him.
There were four sages remaining who had not yet proposed their difficulties.
Silence was commanded, and she desired the sages to inform her what was sweeter than honey.
Bagdad was, at this time, under the rule of the famed Caliph Haroun al Raschid, and was the resort of strangers from all parts of the globe, where artists and sages of that country mingled among those of the neighbouring lands.
Hapacuson also, that decrepit hag, who personated the righteous Sallasalsor, from Nechal, now stripped of the garments of hypocrisy, filled the eyes of the sages with terror and amazement.
The sages in the divan were struck with astonishment at the condescension of their young Sultan, and one and all fell prostrate before his throne.
Who can contrast his life and conduct with that of all the sages of paganism, and not confess there is a God; yea!
The sages in the Upani.sad had already started with the idea that there was a supreme controller or essence presiding over man and the universe.
In the assemblies of these sages and their pupils, the views of the heretical circles were probably discussed and refuted.
It seems probable that the Hindu systems of thought originated among the sages who though attached chiefly to the Upani.sad circles used to take note of the discussions and views of the antagonistic and heretical philosophic circles.
We find a stratum of thought 44 which shows that the sages were still blinded by the old ritualistic associations, and though meditation had taken the place of sacrifice yet this was hardly adequate for the highest attainment of Brahman.
Allusion is also made in this connection to the special perceptual powers of the yogins (sages attaining mystical powers through Yoga practices).
When the S'ûnyavâdin sages argue, they only accept for the moment what other people regard as reasons, and deal with them in their own manner to help them to come to a right comprehension of all appearances.
The sages wonder how "the sparkling waters of all rivers flow into one ocean without ever filling it.
There are also statements to the effect that the Being is one, though it is called by many names by the sages [Footnote ref 7].
The Journey of Trial was made to appear, what it had been intended to be by the fathers and sages of the Leaphigh institutions, a probation replete with admonitions and instruction.
So to guard our posts and pensions, Ancient sages wove a net, Thro' whose holes of small dimensions Only certain knaves can get.
As sages the matter explain;-- Bob owes it to Tom, and then Tommy Just owes it to Bob back again.
And sages sighed and lovers thought; Where schoolmen conned no maxims stern, But all was formed to soothe or move, To make the dullest love to learn, To make the coldest learn to love.
In the days before Chou Kung, the Sages were themselves rulers; hence they were able to secure the reception of their Method.
In the days after Chou Kung, the Sages were all high officers of State; hence its duration through a long period of time.
And I do not think that, even were the holy sages of old to revisit the earth, they would fairly be able to denounce these.
He is independent of all men, and no more to be compared with those heterodox sages of whom we make so much than with the vulgar herd of the greedy, grasping world around us.
But how could I possibly have intended any other than the Canon of the sages of China?
He was probably the founder, at any rate a member, of a small club of bibulous poets who called themselves the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
The following passages are taken from his essay on the Way or Method of Confucianism:-- "Had there been nosages of old, the race of man would have long since become extinct.
And again, the sages have said, 'There is help for everything but death: all may be warded off, except Fate.
Verily, the sages have said, 'If one of you reproach his brother with sucking the dugs of a bitch, he also shall suck her.
Sages of antiquity spoke with deep reverence of the more ancient ancients of the ages, and revered all that they said and did.
And the rural Chinese to-day says that what did for the sages of olden times must do for him to-day.
Nor did these sages suppose that the struggle of the dark Tezcatlipoca to master the Light-God had ceased; no, they knew he was biding his time, with set purpose and a fixed certainty of success.
In what cycle he would appear the sages knew not, but the year of the cycle was predicted by himself of old.
The sages and diviners were consulted, but their answers were darker than the ignorance they were asked to dispel.
This is what is averred by the most ancient sages of the Inca line, (por aquellos ingas antiquissimos).
The Aztec sages had at some time propounded to themselves the question of how the sun, which seems to set in the West, can rise the next morning in the East?
Sages and men of sense spend their days in the delights of light and heavy literature, whereas dolts and fools waste time in sleep and idleness.
These deities andsages (munis) believe in the Cow.
The sagessprang back, and the beast sprang forward.
Wise are ye in your generation, O ye sages of Gaur, yet withal wondrous illogical.
Once he attempted his usual trick upon a knot of sages who, sitting round a tank, were recreating themselves with quoting mystical Sanskrit shlokas[140] of abominable long-windedness.
In every way the aim of the Sages is to shorten the sufferings of the condemned man.
Then Elisha said, "But the Sages are by no means at one in that matter of the vows, and in particular many of them declare all the vows annulled that would work against our duty to our parents, or even against our love to our neighbor.
I did what the Law and the Sages command, yet never thought I in so doing of men's thoughts or praises.
Then Hanan the High Priest came in, and said, "Ye have all had the time of deliberation prescribed by our sages in capital cases, or at least as much time as the urgency of the matter permits.
Nay, but the Sages have carried their prohibition even unto fowls, lest the people be led to confuse flesh and flesh.
I cannot learn that he dusted himself with the "dust of the wise," as the sages have commanded.
Yet perhaps in this he only followed the principle of our Sages who have said, "The Sabbath was made for you, not you for the Sabbath.
Thou must know that among us our Sages are of two kinds, the Halachists and the Hagadists.
Each of our Sages prides himself on this--that he has said some maxim of wisdom that none had thought of before him, and so each of them is remembered in the minds of men by one or more of his favorite maxims.
While in the Republic the State is governed by sages, almost entirely without laws, in the later work, the sages almost disappear and the laws assume an all-important place.
We are now ready to take up our second question: How can the sage organize human life, and secure a succession ofsages to continue his work after him?
How can the sage organize human life, and secure a succession of sages to continue his work after him?
This is the charm by sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold.
The hand-breadth cloud the sages feared Its bloody rain is dropping; The poison plant the fathers spared All else is overtopping.
The philosopher, who had been an amused listener, advised the three sages to give up the project of converting the world until they had learned to tolerate each other.
The systems devised by the sages are but tales imagined to amuse the eternal childishness of men.
The old man and the sages who sat near her, at the banquet at Alexandria, how pleasant they were, and how fascinating was their conversation!
And had even those happier knights been deprived of those assisting sages and enchanters, who helped them in all emergencies, they would have been strangely disappointed of their mighty expectations.
But whether it be worth or looks We gently love or strongly, Such virtue doth reside in books We scarce can love them wrongly; To sages an eternal school, A hobby (harmless) to the fool.
Do you deem yourself able to penetrate mysteries from which all the sages of the earth have retreated with humility?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
