"ancient sage" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It refers to a wise and respected person who is very old or has lived a long time. Example: The village elders gathered around the ancient sage, seeking his advice on the best way to handle the recent conflict.
The ancient sage Mencius once said, "Those who have property are inclined to preserve social stability".
A more positive indication of Tennyson's later beliefs appears in "The Ancient Sage," published in Tiresias and Other Poems (1885).
It was he, not any ancient sage, who figured out how to show people the world over the safest way to stand on their heads.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The ancient sage Mencius once said, "Those who have property are inclined to preserve social stability".
Daxue, ( Chinese: "Great Learning") Wade-Giles romanization Ta-hsüeh, brief Chinese text generally attributed to the ancient sage Confucius (551 479 bc) and his disciple Zengzi.
The third book, Lunyu ("Conversations," or "Analects"), reputedly contains direct quotations from the ancient sage Confucius as recorded by his disciples, especially Zengzi.
For example, Confucius (551 479 bce) believed that he was restoring the dao of the ancient sage-kings.
"At least some of the ancient sages were probably stoned out of their minds," said Leslie Kaminoff, a Manhattan yoga teacher and author of "Yoga Anatomy".
He called the pose, said to stimulate the thyroid, "one of the greatest boons conferred on humanity by our ancient sages".
The authority of ancient sages and worthies, the classical tradition, conventional norms, teachers, governmental rules and regulations, and political officers are all important for that process.
We Jews speak of the ancient sages Hillel and Rabbi Akiva as if we just had an espresso with them at Starbucks.
