Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule.

In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe.

Early Chinese rocket

" In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, ed.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

This set of syllables shrinks to 67 in Early Middle Japanese ( though some were added through Chinese influence ).

Early Middle Japanese sees a significant amount of Chinese influence on the language's phonology – length distinctions become phonemic for both consonants and vowels, and series of both labialised ( e. g. kwa ) and palatalised ( kya ) consonants are added.

Early records on medicine have been discovered from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian medicine, Ayurvedic medicine ( in the Indian subcontinent ), classical Chinese medicine ( predecessor to the modern traditional Chinese Medicine ), and ancient Greek medicine and Roman medicine.

Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Early Chinese rocket.

* Early Daoist texts – Chinese Text Project

" Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin " ( UBC Press, 1991 ).

Early ceramic wares made at Meissen and other centers of true porcelain imitated Chinese shapes for dishes, vases and teawares ( see Chinese export porcelain ).

Early Chinese literature refers to the Yellow River simply as ( Old Chinese: * C. gˤaj ), a character that has come to simply mean " river " in modern usage.

* Characters such as 武 ( war, martial arts ) or 屋 ( room, house ), pronounced roughly mwio and uk in Early Middle Chinese, have an initial v phoneme in Hakka, being vu and vuk in Hakka respectively ( Mandarin: wu ).

Thomas was an accomplished writer of prose poetry, with collections such as Potrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ) and Quite Early One Morning ( 1954 ) showing he was capable of writing moving short stories.

* Merlin: or the early History of King Arthur: a prose romance ( Early English Text Society.

* Early Middle Oriya ( 1200 – 1400 ): The earliest use of prose can be found in the Madala Panji or the Palm-leaf Chronicles of the Jagannatha temple at Puri, which date back to the 12th century.

However, there are aspects of Early Irish prose that appear to have had some influence on the Irish novel: the use of exaggeration for humorous effect, a near obsession with lists, and a strong sense of satire.

Johannes von Tepl ( c. 1350 – c. 1415 ), also known as Johannes von Saaz (), was a Bohemian writer of the German language, one of the earliest known writers of prose in Early New High German ( or late Middle German — depending on the criteria ).

Early in his career, Bengtsson had held a romantic view on the saga literature, promoting an elevated, almost sacral prose in translations, but when writing The Long Ships he instead made use of the saga's faculties for wisecracks and comic understatements.

As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

Early equipment was very flimsy ; ;

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

It may seem strange that a poet should come to full fruition in his seventies, but we have it on Hardy's own authority that `` he was a child till he was sixteen, a youth till he was five-and-twenty, and a young man till he was nearly fifty '' ( Early Life, p. 42 ).

Early in her life she had discovered that where there were men, there was money, and with the two came luxury and liquor.

Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.

Early in the war it was not uncommon for planters' sons to retain in camp Negro `` body servants '' to perform the menial chores such as cooking, foraging, cleaning the quarters, shining shoes, and laundering clothes.

Instead Sergeant Early was quiet, sharp and confident.

There was no weapon Early could not take apart and reassemble blind-folded.

But for all his erudite confidence, Sergeant Early was right out of the Garryowen mold.

Sergeant Early let the new CO know just how lucky he was to be in the best troop in the best regiment in the United States Army.

Early in the nineteenth century the State of New Hampshire was casting about for a way to found its own state university.

" After repeated calls on Grant to defend Washington, Sheridan was appointed and the threat from Early was dispatched.

Early anthropology was divided between proponents of unilinealism, who argued that all societies passed through a single evolutionary process, from the most primitive to the most advanced, and various forms of non-lineal theorists, who tended to subscribe to ideas such as diffusionism.

Early Adelaide was shaped by religious freedom and a commitment to political progressivism and civil liberties, which led to the moniker " City of Churches ".

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

Early guncotton was unstable however, and burned very fast and hot, leading to greatly increased barrel wear.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.