"Translatable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... worthy of ranking as a maxim, (regula maxima,) of criticism. Whatever is translatable in other and simpler words of the same language, without loss of sense or dignity, is bad. N.B.—By dignity I mean the absence of ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... are valuable, as, although not translatable into carving, they do to some extent influence the manner of ...
— Wood-Carving - Design and Workmanship • George Jack
... written Zoroaster, is a name translatable into "star of gold" and also into "keeper of old camels." Probably it was first employed to designate an imaginary prophet, and then a series of spiritual though actual successors by whom, in the course of centuries, the Avesta was evolved. ...
— The Lords of the Ghostland - A History of the Ideal • Edgar Saltus
... therefore, that involves explicitly the point at infinity is not to be translated into a theorem concerning lines. Further, in the pencil the angle between two lines has nothing to correspond to it in a point-row perspective to the pencil. Any theorem, therefore, that mentions angles is not translatable into another theorem by means of the law of duality. Now we have seen that the notion of the infinitely distant point on a line involves the notion of dividing a segment into any number of equal parts—in other words, of measuring. ...
— An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry • Lehmer, Derrick Norman
... code is no worse than most and certainly it is prettier than some. It is a code peculiar to an age, or at least it flourishes best in an age wherein sentiment and the stuff of dreams are easily translatable into action. Its requirements are less of the intellect than of the heart. It puts God, honor, and mistress above all else, and stipulates that a knight shall serve these three without any reservation. ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell |
