"Zend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... find in Persia what we lack in India; and as the modern Persian is descended from the Zend, and as the Zend is a sister to the Sanskrit, Persia may, perhaps, supply such a locality. The ...
— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham
... in the details of the practical arts that Diderot wrote from material acquired at second-hand. The article on the Zend-Avesta is taken from the Annual Register for 1762. The long series of articles on the history of philosophy is in effect a reproduction of what he found in Bayle, in Deslandes, and in Brucker. There are one or two considerable exceptions. Perhaps ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2) • John Morley
... comets, and who knew that these bodies move in elliptic orbits, immensely elongated, having the sun in one of their foci;—who indicated the number of the solar years contained in the great cycle, by multiplying a period (variously called in the Zend, the Sanscrit, and the Chinese ven, van, and phen) of 180 years by another period of 144 years;—who reckoned the sun's distance from the earth at 800,000,000 of Olympic stadia; and who must, therefore, ...
— The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble
... despite the mathematical plainness of the facts, other Alemanni agree neither with Muellerus, nor yet with Benfeius, and will neither hear that Athene was the Dawn, nor yet that she is "the feminine of the Zend Thraetana athwyana." Lo, you! how Prellerus goes about to show that her name is drawn not from Ahana and the old Brachmanae, nor athwyana and the old Medes, but from "the root [Greek text], whence ...
— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang
... you can just condescend. I say, Phoebe, I have a great curiosity to understand the Zend. I wish you would explain ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... Zagros to the west, appears to have been occupied in these times by a great variety of different tribes and people, yet all or most of them belonging to the religion of Zoroaster, and speaking dialects of the Zend language. It was known amongst its inhabitants by the common name of Iran or Aria: it is, in its central parts at least, a high, cold plateau, totally destitute of wood, and scantily supplied with water; much of it indeed is a salt ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various |
