The phrase "as the first texts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to initial or original documents, writings, or sources in a specific context.
Example: "The researchers analyzed the manuscripts, focusing on their significance as the first texts in the field of linguistics."
Alternatives: "as the initial writings" or "as the original documents".
With their scrambled syntax, phonetic spelling and haphazard punctuation, the Lindbergh ransom notes — showcased in the 1996 HBO film "Crime of the Century" — may qualify as the first text messages.
I said, thinking which books, I pointed out the Bible as one of the first texts I read, and I think reading various books undoubtedly leaves you knowledge, lessons.
Metaphrase is said to create "formal equivalence" between two texts -- inasmuch as each word in the first text is semantically mirrored by a corresponding word in the second text -- whereas paraphrase is said to create "dynamic equivalence," meaning that the whole sense of the first text is mirrored in the second text even if the words themselves are different.
As the second text in the Khuddaka Nikaya ("Short Collection") of the Sutta Pitaka ("Basket of Discourse"), the Dhammapada contains 423 stanzas arranged in 26 chapters.
Under normal circumstances, this would have gladdened Mike's heart, but these were far from normal circumstances, as the second text demonstrated.
Augustine interpreted the first text as literally identifying love with the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Christian Trinity (De Trinitate, VI, 5, p. 207).
At the time of the ratification of the Fourth Amendment, it was generally understood that each person had a protected property interest not just in the things he owned, but first, as the Fourth Amendment text makes clear, in his "person".
The book was described by the Centre as "the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory".
After all, as the show's first text panel announces, "Everything has a skin," and the human one is an inspirational model of flexibility, efficiency and complexity.
