Sentence examples for famous discourse from inspiring English sources

Each subject recites a famous discourse that relates directly or indirectly to his or her personal biography.

Descartes's La Géométrie appeared in 1637 as an appendix to his famous Discourse on Method, the treatise that presented the foundation of his philosophical system.

Collapsing the distinction between so and not-so, admissible and inadmissible is a prominent topic in the famous "Discourse on Equalizing Things," Book 2 of the Zhuangzi.

Though this work is of greater historical than philosophical interest, it should not be overlooked for it bears indirectly on Ji's famous discourse on "nourishing life".

The other is the famous "Discourse on Equalizing Things," Book 2 of the Zhuangzi, though the text does not attribute the theses to Hui Shi or Gongsun Long by name.

I Corinthians 13 is the famous discourse on love.

This assumption has been bolstered by the tendency, prevalent until recently, to base an understanding of Descartes' philosophy primarily on his two most famous books, Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.

The famous Mahaparinibbana Sutta ("Discourse on the Great Final Extinction"—i.e., the Buddha's release from the round of rebirths), one of the oldest texts in the canon (though containing later interpolations), narrates the activities and teachings of the Buddha's last year and describes his death.

The French renaissance political philosopher Étienne de La Boétie wrote in his most famous work the Discourse on Voluntary Servitude what some historians consider an important anarchist precedent.

At its founding, Jones delivered the first of a famous series of discourses.

In this series of discourses by famous women, Scudéry creates fictitious diatribes pronounced by powerful women in a moment of crisis, often on the verge of death.