Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnomists
Literary usage of Gnomists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1800)
"... and in Homer and Hesiod, The gnomists followed ; commonly called the Seven
Wise Men of Greece. Thaïes, the founder of the Ionic philosophy, ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1878)
"So much more attention is paid in the schools to the poetry, mythology, and
history of Greece than to her gnomists and ethical philosophers, that one falls ..."
3. The Golden Treasury of Ancient Greek Poetry by Robert Samuel Wright, Evelyn Abbott (1889)
"... with other less-known poets called gnomists, or writer of sentences, whose
verses may be regarded as the beginning of ethical philosophy in Greece. ..."
4. The Fathers of Jesus: A Study of the Lineage of the Christian Doctrine and by Keningale Cook (1886)
"There is a subsidence from bright and emotion into calmness of thought. The gnomists
of| show two sides, the one a wisdom which has not spiritual glow, ..."
5. Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander by John Pentland Mahaffy (1902)
"But unfortunately, the high popularity of the earlier gnomists made it impossible
to keep their works 1 In corroboration of this view ..."
6. The twelve principles of efficiency by Harrington Emerson (1913)
"The weakness of phrenologists, of cranio- gnomists, of palmists, lies not in the
fact that intuitionists and students are not able with almost ..."
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