Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind.

The Chaldean Sages were nearly put to the route by a quarto pack of artillery, fired on them by Mr. John Chamber, in 1691.

Just about that time the sogdollager nibbled, and instead of trying to be a great man, over the shoulders of the patriots and sages of the land, I endeavoured to immortalize myself by hooking him.

20 One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

your Reward is neither Here nor There." Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wiselythey are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scattered, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.

VI My heart no longer brooks my hand: sages, aid for God my woe!

He will find a calm, peaceful satisfaction, when he reads the moral precepts and wise instructions of the Chinese sages; he will find that virtue is in every place the same; and will look with new contempt on those wild reasoners, who affirm, that morality is merely ideal, and that the distinctions between good and ill are wholly chimerical.

Out of mystery we all came at our birth, fox-hunters and paupers, sages and saints; into mystery we shall all return . . .

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within; more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.

Here they were forestalled by the Hindu sages.

It was only the ethical views of the old sages which had attraction or force to them.

Where be those learned wits and antique sages, Which of all wisedome knew the perfect somme?

where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place.

The great preceptor of the Asuras, viz., Sukra, possessing the highest intelligence as evidenced by his various works on all manner of subjects particularly, the Sukra-niti. "Vidura said, 'The three-fold purposes, O king (viz., profit, pleasure, and salvation), have their foundations in virtue, and the sages say that a kingdom also standeth on virtue as its basis.

And, O chief of all male beings, thou art the refuge of all royal sages devoted to virtuous acts, never turning their backs on the field of the battle, and possessed of every accomplishment!

O intelligent one, if a child born of a good race studieth the Vedas and beareth himself virtuously, royal sages of virtuous behaviour regard him as an aged sage (not withstanding his years)!

And there he beheld royal sages crowned with ascetic success, and heroes who had yielded up their lives in battle, and those that had acquired heaven by their ascetic austerities, by hundreds upon hundreds.

If, according to Cardinal de Retz' opinion, elaborate attention to trifles denote a little mind, these are true Lilliputian sages.

"Que le gouvernement prenne des mesures sages pour faire une paix honorable avec quelques uns de nos ennemis, et a l'aide des vaisseaux Hollandais et Espagnols, portons nous ensuite avec vigueur sur les bordes de la Tamise, et detruisons la nouvelle Carthage.

The sages became the teachers of men.

Over the seers and sages one vision of the source of human goodness rises.

And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said, Is in the Book our mothers read.

The Hebrew sages had this vision of Wisdom.

Wisdom crieth to the sons of men, in that noblest writing of the sages: Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

These, however, are idle speculations; they are the materials from which sages spin their dry and ethereal webs.