Sentence examples for book preserved from inspiring English sources

When trying to reconstruct the philosophy of Heraclitus, for example, modern scholars rely above all on the actual quotations from Heraclitus' book preserved in later authors.

A 14th Century Jewish religious book, preserved by experts from the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library, is to go on show in New York.

The book preserved and made available many works that had previously existed only in privately held manuscripts.

"Darwin wrote," Dr. Gould recalled, "that our imperfect fossil record is like a book preserving just a few pages, of these pages few lines, of the lines few words, and of those words few letters".

"Child Star" charts Shirley Temple's triumph over experiences that almost seem to have been conspiring to make her interesting — but the book preserves them so perfectly, and offers such a trove of loot, that children will read it in a state of Ali Baba greed.

During the Middle Ages, manuscript books preserved and propagated sacred writings.

"Books preserve, daintily, the redolence of their first reading".

A book (as opposed to an e-book) preserves the ideas therein in the form of an artifact, which has intrinsic value as a physical object.

But Morpurgo, a distinguished British author of children's books, preserves much of the oddness and complexity of the original, and, though his text is in prose, even some of the poetry.

But if its conclusion is sad, the history of black baseball as recounted in these books preserves the memory of the achievements and failures, not just of the athletes but of the men who made its existence possible through their perseverance, skill and courage as businessmen, political leaders and journalists.

It was, as the agency historian Richard Sellars writes in his book "Preserving Nature in the National Parks," "a revolutionary change in the understanding of national parks by Service professionals".