Sentence examples for surviving account from inspiring English sources

"There are no surviving account books or collections of engraved designs".

(Mather provided the sole surviving account of the trial, although we have no evidence that he ever entered the courtroom).

The resurrection of Christ was also of primary importance, as Paul revealed in his letter to the Thessalonians, the earliest surviving account of conversion to the Christian movement.

From these and other sources the Greek geographer Pausanias in the 2nd century ad compiled the longest surviving account, a story of the 7th-century rebellion with romantic embellishments drawn largely from Rhianus.

The only surviving account of this journey is the diary of one of Hudson's crew, Robert Juet (who, on another voyage, a year later, helped lead a mutiny, stranding Hudson, his young son, and seven others in a small boat near the Arctic Circle).

The most substantial surviving account of the reign of Nerva was written by the 3rd-century historian Cassius Dio.

All these collections were scattered in ancient times, and they are known only through surviving accounts.

According to one of the two surviving accounts of the meal, the Native American tribe, the Wampanoag, hunted five deer for the meal.

His exact words will never be known, since the only surviving accounts of his speech were written years later, but he apparently stressed the plight of Eastern Christians, the molestation of pilgrims, and the desecration of the holy places.

No matter that the historical Socrates does indeed seem to have patented the dialogue as a form of philosophical inquiry, the surviving accounts of his conversation are very far from being a documentary record.

Viewers can fly over walls and along mysterious corridors like inquisitive sparrows, or scroll through an English translation of Homer's "Iliad," one of the earliest surviving accounts of the Trojan War.