"First state" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thing was it, whose first state was wood and its last life?" "Moses' staff,[FN440] when he cast it on the valley-ground and it became, by permission of Allah, a writhing serpent." Q "What is the meaning of the word of the Lord, 'And I have other occasion for it?'"[FN441] "He, Moses, was wont to plant his staff in the ground, ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... first state in all cases was that of hetairism. The rule is based upon the right of procreation: since there is no individual fatherhood, all have only one father—the tyrant whose sons and daughters they all are, and to whom all the property belongs. From this condition in which the man rules ...
— The Position of Woman in Primitive Society - A Study of the Matriarchy • C. Gasquoine Hartley
... a stump of a man; he did not find it easy to change the subject all at once; he was all preoccupied with thoughts and wondering, and began asking questions of this and that. He learned that the application had been sent up to the King, and might be decided in one of the first State Councils. "'Tis all a miracle," ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun |
