Sentence examples for surviving account of from inspiring English sources

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

In 1972, Goldstine published The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, a book that contains the best surviving account of the IAS effort.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

His face slashed, his body rent by musket balls, he fought savagely until — and here surviving accounts of the battle diverge — he either succumbed to his many wounds or was felled by a single blow from a sword, which left his head dangling from his shoulder by a ribbon of flesh.

Although the term prohairesis is only barely attested in surviving accounts of early Stoic philosophy, there is some evidence to suggest that it did play a significant role; see Graver 2003.