Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

Some Russian individualists anarchists " found the ultimate expression of their social alienation in violence and crime, others attached themselves to avant-garde literary and artistic circles, but the majority remained " philosophical " anarchists who conducted animated parlor discussions and elaborated their individualist theories in ponderous journals and books.

The convergence of documentary evidence of the type used by academics for authorial attribution — title pages, testimony by other contemporary poets and historians, and official records — sufficiently establishes Shakespeare's authorship for the overwhelming majority of Shakespeare scholars and literary historians, and no evidence links Oxford to Shakespeare's works.

Yet the majority of works in Bibliotheca are by Christian patristic authors, and most of the secular texts in Bibliotheca are histories, grammars or literary works, usually rhetoric, rather than science, medicine or philosophy.

This Almanac is noteworthy in that it provides a huge amount ( 46 pages ) of background information — all of which is taken from pre-existing literary works or mythology, a large majority of which is difficult to fully appreciate without an esoteric knowledge of literature.

In response to critics, Graves has accused literary scholars of being psychologically incapable of interpreting myth or too concerned with maintaining their perquisites to go against the majority view.

Furthermore, only a minority of the huge vocabulary of the English language is used in everyday speech: the remainder is mainly used in technical, literary and other contexts where the written language is the primary means of communication, and in many cases the majority of speakers of the language are unsure of the correct pronunciation.

The majority of literary Saturnians come from the Odysseia ( more commonly known as the Odissia or Odyssia ), a translation / paraphrase of Homer's Odyssey by Livius Andronicus ( ca.

Oman retains a number of independent private coeducational day schools of international renown and a majority of which are private educational grammar establishments offering Classics beyond Latin and Greek to include the ancient literary studies of Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic.

Michener bequeathed the majority of his literary legacy to the university upon his death.

* The Wessex dialect was the standard literary language of later Anglo-Saxon England, and consequently the majority of Anglo-Saxon literature, including the epic poem Beowulf and the poetic Biblical paraphrase Judith, is preserved in West Saxon dialect, though not all of it was originally written in West Saxon.

* Ghil ' ad Zuckermann compromises between Wexler and the majority view: according to him, " Israeli " ( his term for Israeli Hebrew ) is a Semito-European hybrid language, which is the continuation not only of literary Hebrew but also of Yiddish, as well as Polish, Russian, German, English, Ladino, Arabic and other languages spoken by Hebrew revivalists.

The majority of the books in A Series of Unfortunate Events pick up where the previous book ended, and the plots of the first seven books follow the same basic pattern: each book is thirteen chapters long ( only exception for The End where there are actually fourteen chapters making for 170 chapters in total ), where the Baudelaires are in a new predicament in a new location with a new guardian who has a literary name.

The majority of these texts that were written in this literary era were produced in the years immediately after 1910 and are generally marked by the justification of radicalism and rebellion.

For the purpose it serves, this literary genre then gets accredited beyond Cuba and becomes a representative genre in other revolutionary countries, where empowering the majority of its people is important.

While the majority of Thai literature before the twentieth century was dominated by royal and elite authors writing for the kingdom ’ s gentry, it has been argued that Khamsing ’ s divergence from typical Thai literary subject matter has created the concept of the Thai peasant as a literary hero.

1830-1850, when leaders of Croatian National Unification Movement ( the majority of them being Kajkavian native speakers themselves ) adopted the most widespread and developed Croatian Štokavian literary language as the idiom for Croatian standard language.

A majority of artists within the neofolk genre focus on archaic, cultural and literary references.

Sarah Elizabeth Utterson née Brown ( 1781 – 1851 ), wife of literary antiquary, collector and editor Edward Vernon Utterson ( c. 1776 – 1856 ), translated the majority of Tales of the Dead from a French collection of ghost stories as " the amusement of an idle hour ".

The vast majority of Pamir languages speakers in Tajikistan and Afghanistan also use Tajik ( Persian ) as literary language, which is — unlike the languages of the Pamir group — a Southwestern Iranian tongue.

Though some critics have made assertions, some in efforts to preserve Shakespeare's literary credibility, to its being non-erotic in nature, no critic has disputed that the majority of Shakespeare's sonnets concern explicitly male-male love poetry.

By composing the vast majority of her works in Nôm, she helped to elevate the status of Vietnamese as a literary language.

The majority of Eich's literary output in this period were radio plays, which numbered 160.

Two strong dissents from the majority report of the Joint Economic Committee ( May 2 ) by Senators Proxmire and Butler allege that the New Deal fiscal policy of the Thirties did not work.

The majority of fields in physics can be divided between theoretical work and experimental work,

In the British general election the following year, Michael Howard promised to work towards having the prohibition removed if the Conservative Party gained a majority of seats in the House of Commons, but the election was won by Blair's Labour Party.

In 1950 he also proposed an idea for a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, the tokamak, which is still the basis for the majority of work in the area.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

A small percentage of entertainers and athletes are able to make a decent living but a vast majority will spend their careers toiling from hard work, determination, rejection and frequent unemployment.

" Upham's book refers to Robert Calef 25 times with the majority of these regarding documents compiled by Calef in the mid-1690s and stating: " Although zealously devoted to the work of exposing the enormities connected with the witchcraft prosecutions, there is no ground to dispute the veracity of Calef as to matters of fact.

Serfs, the majority of the people, who did the actual work such as farming were required in Tibetan society to have a tenure document known as khral-rten ().

Often assumed to be illiterate, Catherine is acknowledged by Raymond in his life of her as capable of reading both Latin and Italian, and another hagiographer, Tommaso Caffarini, claimed that she could write in her own hand, though the majority of her written work was dictated.

Recent work suggests that this may not be the case with single stranded viruses forming the majority of viruses found in sea water, fresh water, sediment, terrestrial, extreme, metazoan-associated and marine microbial mats.

Discrimination on the basis of nationality may show as a " level of acceptance " in a sport or work team regarding new team members and employees who differ from the nationality of the majority of team members.

Gaetano Mosca in in his work The Ruling Class ( 1896 ) developed the theory that claims that in all societies, an " organized minority " will dominate and rule over the " disorganized majority ".

Marinetti rejected conventional democracy for based on majority rule and egalitarianism while promoting a new form of democracy, that he described in his work " The Futurist Conception of Democracy " as the following: " We are therefore able to give the directions to create and to dismantle to numbers, to quantity, to the mass, for with us number, quantity and mass will never be — as they are in Germany and Russia — the number, quantity and mass of mediocre men, incapable and indecisive ".

The Office of Regulatory Affairs is considered the " eyes and ears " of the agency, conducting the vast majority of the FDA's work in the field.

This Gospel is considered by the majority of academics, including Christians and some Muslims ( such as Abbas el-Akkad ) to be late and pseudepigraphical ; however, some academics suggest that it may contain some remnants of an earlier apocryphal work ( perhaps Gnostic, Ebionite or Diatessaronic ), redacted to bring it more in line with Islamic doctrine.

This is a grammar, and — at least in the case of one's native language — the vast majority of the information in it is acquired not by conscious study or instruction, but by observing other speakers ; much of this work is done during infancy.

The majority of the IETF's work is done on mailing lists, and meeting attendance is not required for contributors.

For example, it would be an unfair situation to reward the entire team for a job well done if only one team member did the great majority of the work.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

In autumn of 1834, Lönnrot had written the vast majority of the work needed for what was to become The Old Kalevala ; all that was required was to tie up some narrative loose ends and officially complete the work.

The majority of findings about memory have been the result of studies that lesioned specific brain regions in rats or primates, but some of the most important work has been the result of accidental or inadvertent brain trauma.

Today, the rise of cheap mass production means that this is no longer true, and, though a few expert locksmiths are also engineers and capable of sophisticated repairs and renovation work, the vast majority of locks are repaired by swapping of parts or like-for-like replacement, or upgraded to modern mass-production items.

The majority of locksmiths also work on any existing door hardware, not just locking mechanisms.