One of its features attractive to the West is its irreverence for tradition and dogma and for sacred texts.

The standardized form of Austrian German for official texts and schools is defined by the Austrian Dictionary (), published under the authority of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.

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.

Although many other chemists have repeated this advice, IUPAC and most chemistry texts still favour the usage of allotrope and allotropy for elements only.

In most accents of AmE, the irregular forms are never or rarely used ( except for burnt, leapt and dreamt ). The t endings may be encountered frequently in older American texts.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

The early translators included Mashallah, who helped to elect the time for the foundation of Baghdad, and Sahl ibn Bishr, ( a. k. a. Zael ), whose texts were directly influential upon later European astrologers such as Guido Bonatti in the 13th century, and William Lilly in the 17th century.

The early texts assume war to be a fact of life, and well-skilled warriors are viewed as a necessity for defensive warfare.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

The English Language Liturgical Consultation ( ELLC ) is an international ecumenical group whose primary purpose is to provide ecumenically accepted texts for those who use English in their liturgy.

He was also the one responsible for replacing the title God in the Hebrew texts to read ' Lord of Hosts.

Bede was familiar with pagan authors such as Virgil, but it was not considered appropriate to teach biblical grammar from such texts, and in De schematibus ... Bede argues for the superiority of Christian texts in understanding Christian literature.

As for the identity of Mordecai, the similar names Marduka and Marduku have been found as the name of officials in the Persian court in over thirty texts from the period of Xerxes I and his father Darius, and may refer to up to four individuals, one of which might after all be Mordecai.

As for the non-canonical writings, the majority of references to biblical texts were made by argumentum ad verecundiam.

" The Acts of the Scilitan Martyrs ", one of the earliest texts which offer evidence of the development of " the Bible ", indicates that the leader of the Scilitan Martyrs possessed a " capsa ", or container for scroll-form books ( volumen, pl.

Lord Chief Justice Edward Coke, a 17th-century English jurist and Member of Parliament, wrote several legal texts that formed the basis for the modern common law, with lawyers in both England and America learning their law from his Institutes and Reports until the end of the 18th century.

Chartier's typical undergraduate course focuses upon the making, remaking, dissemination, and reading of texts in early modern Europe and America.

Other episodes of the Mahabharata – Indralokâgama, and three others ( Berlin, 1824 ); Diluvium, and three others ( Berlin, 1829 ); a new edition of Nala ( Berlin, 1832 ) – followed in due course, all of which, with A. W. Schlegel's edition of the Bhagavad Gita ( 1823 ), proved excellent aids in initiating the early student into the reading of Sanskrit texts.

The first reference to the disapparance of the lower course of the Sarasvati is from the Brahmanas, texts that are composed in Vedic Sanskrit, but dating to a later date than the Veda Samhitas.

* Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk, spends 2 years in Ceylon and is more than 200 days at sea as storms drive his ship off its course, but returns with sacred Buddhist texts back to China ( see 414 ).

The output of printing presses at this period was, as a matter of course, subject to governmental scrutiny ; during Paul II's reign, books produced in the Papal States were largely limited to Latin classical literature and ecclesiastical texts.

The texts of the Avesta — which are all in the Avestan language — were composed over the course of several hundred years.

In the course of describing these characters, Gurdjieff weaves their stories into the story of his own travels, and also into an overarching narrative which has them cooperate in locating spiritual texts and / or masters in various lands ( mostly Central Asia ).

* Strauss Seminar Transcripts-The full or partial scanned original texts for some of Strauss ' course transcripts may be found here for reading or download.

Heidegger wrote about boredom in two texts available in English, in the 1929 / 30 semester lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and again in the essay What is Metaphysics?

Students move through Western history, studying original texts in each of the four course disciplines.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85 – 90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

All textbooks used in course work, including religious texts, must be approved for use by the Ministry of Education.

" Odyssey required me to settle on an ideal set of multilingual Beckett texts by means of which to portray the course of his life.

Each course emphasizes contemporary texts, compositions, artistic expressions, issues, and ideas in their respective disciplines.

As a matter of fact, historians could have told them, the privileges accorded by popes to the King of France in the course of centuries are known from the texts, of which an authentic collection could be compiled, and there is nothing in them resembling the Liberties in question.

The tablature system used in all these texts is the " Italian " tablature, wherein the stopped frets are indicated by numbers and the lowest line of the staff represents the highest-pitch course ( or string ), as if the performer were looking " through " the neck of the instrument ; Milán's book also uses numbers to indicate the stopping of the courses but exceptionally it is the top line of the staff that represents the highest-pitch course, as in " French " tablature.

In the course of the 19th century, better texts also became available for the parts previously published.

Further, as core curricula began to be diminished over the course of the twentieth century at many American schools, several smaller institutions became famous for embracing a core curriculum that covers nearly the student ’ s entire undergraduate education, often utilizing classic texts of the western canon to teach all subjects including science.

It is certainly possible that earlier Jewish texts may suggest nonduality – as, of course, they have been interpreted by traditional nondualists – but ... this may or may not be the most useful way to approach them.

Derrida's neographism ( rather than neologism, because " neologism " would propose a logos, a metaphysical category, and more simply, because when uttered in French, " différance " is indistinguishable from " difference "- it is thus a graphical modification solely, having nothing to do with a spoken " logos ") is, of course, not just an attempt at linguistics or to discuss written texts and how they are read.

Over the course of decades of study, he passed the rigorous series of government examinations in the Theravāda Buddhist texts, gaining the newly-introduced Dhammācariya ( dhamma teacher ) degree in 1941.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85-90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

Systematic theology draws on the foundational sacred texts of Christianity, while simultaneously investigating the development of Christian doctrine over the course of history, particularly through philosophy, science and ethics.