Sentence examples for extant writing from inspiring English sources

Since the time when inscribed oracle bones and tortoise shells (China's oldest extant writing) were used for divination in the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 1046 bce), calligraphy has been associated with spiritual communication and has been viewed in terms of the writer's own spiritual attunement.

Indeed, little of Aristotle's extant writing conforms to the demands for scientific presentation laid down in the Posterior Analytics.

The volume later received high praise from J.S. Mill, who thought it "the best extant writing on the subject" (1963 91, II, 923).

A draft of his sermon, the only extant written sample of his preaching from his entire career, shows that he collaborated with Peter Martyr on dealing with the rebellion.

The earliest extant written reference to these islands appears in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, where he states that there are 30 "Hebudes".

The earliest extant Burmese writing dates from the middle of the 11th century and is written in an alphabet derived from that of the Pāli language of India and Ceylon.

A question was posed from the audience as to why they would go to the extant of writing books on his life.

The first extant book written in a Niger-Congo language was published in 1624.

The 12th-century Gaelic memorandums (the earliest extant Gaelic written in Scotland) provide information on a little-known period of Scottish history the end of the Celtic period.

Many translations from Latin were made in the 13th and 14th centuries, but the only one that has survived, and also the oldest extant poem written in Hungarian, is a free version of a poem by Godefroy de Breteuil.

In 1834, the New York Times (a newspaper unrelated to the one founded in 1851 and extant today) wrote of Jackson, "He arrives at conclusions with a rapidity which proves that his process is not through the tardy avenues of syllogism, nor over the beaten track of analysis".