sages

Never may we become _plus sages que les sages_, as the French comedian has happily expressed it -- wiser than all the wise and good men who have lived before us.

Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. Edmund Burke 1763

Never may we become _plus sages que les sages_, as the French comedian has happily expressed it, wiser than all the wise and good men who have lived before us.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

The sages from the madrono grove strayed in for wordy dinners — ­and wordy evenings, except when Paula played for them.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

The sages from the madrono grove strayed in for wordy dinners — ­and wordy evenings, except when

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

R. Arusi suggests that if we want a solution to depend on rabbis and Torah sages, that is, those who are duly appointed by Israeli law to make the decisions in divorce cases, we must take into account the causes of aginut mentioned above and create solutions in tune with those causes.

Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Razan even suggested that thorough immersion in the words of the sages was the best way to achieve a kind of comprehensive, mystic enlightenment experience.

Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008

Their high priests are the politicians and the worldly-wise, the so-called sages of the age; their sacrifice, the flesh and blood of the slaughtered multitudes; their incantations outworn shibboleths and insidious and irreverent formulas; their incense, the smoke of anguish that ascends from the lacerated hearts of the bereaved, the maimed, and the homeless.

The Promised Day Is Come 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

Then there were a great many old men among them that might be called sages, men who knew the number of days in each month, in each year, could

The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895

Among these he regarded it as most important that even according to the theories about the world, that is, about God and matter, held by the "so-called sages,"

History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

Let us learn, then, how to distinguish heavenly counsel from the interested judgments of men, and hold it for certain that, in the discourse of sages, that is the most trustworthy to which they have given the least reflection.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888