Sentence examples for earlier commentator from inspiring English sources

This viewpoint is mentioned also by an earlier commentator, Nami Sādhu (11th century), and there is linguistic evidence in its favour.

The earlier commentator on Dignāga, Īśvarasena (sixth century), had claimed that we could claim a generalization held simply on the basis of our "simply not seeing" (adarśanamātra) any counterexamples.

Taber (2005, 16), on the other hand, suggests that it is possible to construe MS 1.1.4 as a valid definition, and indeed such a construal was proposed by an earlier commentator, the so-called Vṛttikāra quoted at length by Śābara in his Śābarabhāṣyam.

An earlier commentator, the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, called the document "a rebuke and a stumbling block to tyranny and oppression".

Many earlier commentators had perceived such traits, but now they were attacked with more fundamental repugnance.

Earlier commentators were not wrong in the thrust of their criticisms of economic theory but may have been overly elaborate in their attack.

The notes made it clear that those earlier commentators had access to different and sometimes competing versions of the poems.

The extraordinary repugnance shown towards Tchaikovsky's music by earlier commentators, usually increased by their prejudice against his homosexuality, has begun to slip away.

There are also innovations that, as far as we know, were not provoked by earlier commentators.

And the man who produces it can equally bear comparison with Dr. Lister and more earlier commentators and editors whom he quotes — Humelbergius and Caspar Barthius.

He does not mean that God is the power of being or being as such as earlier commentators like Clyde Holbrook and Douglas Elwood have suggested.