He dropped to his knees, unable to battle both influences for his balance.
It tended to destroy the power of self-command, and exposed the master to the baneful influences of flattery.
The people, more remote and less accessible to external influences, retained their Scandinavian characteristics longer than the Orcadians.
The argument is supported by an analysis of the phenomena of dreams, which are ascribed to direct spiritual influences.
Leonardo's works are mainly developments of the results obtained by his predecessors; the influences of Greek, Arabian, and Indian mathematicians may be clearly discerned in his methods.