Meng Xizi's Zuozhuan speech should be read not only as indicative of a turning point in Confucius' early career his emergence from obscurity but also as the first of many ancient declarations that Confucius was worthy of a crown that he would not receive in his lifetime.
There are not, there are not, if a man is willing not to give foolish credence to the ancient story') to pious declaration of faith (Euripides Fragments 8, 912b, 'See, all you who think the gods do not exist, how you are doubly in error with your poor judgment. They exist indeed, they exist').
When I made this declaration, the ancient, cracked linoleum was covered with dirt, shoes, winter gear and (probably) traces of lead paint.
One of the less calamitous pieces of damage done by Hurricane Sandy was this: It knocked the facade off a wall on South Street just north of Broad Street near the East River, revealing a time capsule of hand-carved 1970s graffiti that included ancient phone numbers and declarations of love.
The entire assembly bowed as Islandzadí proceeded to the end of the hall and threw open the door to the hundreds of elves outside, whereupon she made a brief declaration in the ancient language that Eragon did not understand.
He pointed out in particular that this rule permitted canons to own private property and was thus in conflict with the declarations of the ancient Church Fathers and popes.
In ancient history, disputes were solved through declarations of war, the use of force, and alliances that led to victories and to share the power conquered among victors.
There are tens and tens and tens of thousands of brief asides and melodramatic declarations, all of them ancient and bizarre, and the unbearable heat of the cyber history is suffocating.
In particular the Declaration of Arbroath asserted the ancient distinctiveness of Scotland in the face of English aggression, arguing that it was the role of the king to defend the independence of the community of Scotland.
Now think of those fictionalized characters in veils and heavily bearded, and declarations that come straight from pre-islamic ancient Persian poetry.
