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...have been bur- ied. Some of the tombstones recorded dates of the sixteenth century.* The heraldic ornaments were the only things in this retired place... ...Indians roam: yet, great as it is, I think there will not, in another half-century, be a wild In- dian northward of the Rio Negro. The warfare is too ... ...rackish stream, bear- ing the dregs of the washings of the Pampas. October 2nd. — We passed through Corunda, which, from the luxuriance of its gardens... ...ss that it makes the head al- most giddy t reflect on the number of years, century after century, whic the tides, unaided by a heavy surf, must have r... ...ordinary wear-and-tear of the sea and weather during the course of a whole century. The next day I landed at Talcahuano, and after- wards rode to Conc... ...s were now covered by a thick mass of snow, and were a glorious sight. May 2nd. — The road continued to follow the coast, at no great distance from th... ...ned to the Hacienda, and thence, together with Don Jose, to Coquimbo. June 2nd. — We set out for the valley of Guasco, following the coast-road, which... ...e fossil shells which I collected, almost in the same terms as were used a century ago in Europe, — namely, whether or not they had been thus “born by... ...elago; thence we proceeded to the Azores, where we stayed six days. On the 2nd of October we made the shore, of England; and at Falmouth I left the Be...

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...of their own actions. The leaders of French phi losophy in the eighteenth century had been educated by the Jesuits. Even Jesuit education, it seems, ... ...classes as dependent on the higher and middle, as they were a quarter of a century ago. The events of that quarter of a century have not only taught e... ...and were a federation of this description dur ing the interval of about a century between the union of the crowns and that of the Parliaments. Even t... ...he most disputed topics in American politics during the early part of this century was whether the power of the federal govern ment ought to extend, ... ... and prevent it from being carried. 4 “Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform,” 2nd ed. p. 32 36. 5 “This expedient has been recommended both on the score...

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...l, with notes and index (the Suras arranged in chronological order), 1861, 2nd ed., 1876; by E. H. Palmer (Sacred Books of the East, vols. vi., ix.). ... ...s (from Sale and other writers), by J. Murdock (Sacred Books of the East), 2nd ed., 1902; The Religion of the Koran, selections with an introduction b... ... traditions concerning Muhammad himself for at least the greater part of a century. They rested entirely on the memory of those who have handed them d... ...tions carried on by the professed collec- tors of traditions in the second century after the Hejira, that 20 The Koran little or nothing remains to b... ...een reab- sorbed into the orthodox Church, towards the middle of the fifth century, and had disappeared from Egypt before the sixth. It is nevertheles... ...f the New Testament were made between the Saracen conquests in the seventh century, and the Crusades in the eleventh century–an opinion in which he fo... ...to Muhammad. And it should be remem- bered that the Talmud was completed a century previous to the era of Muhammad, 7 and cannot fail to have extensi...

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...he blossom is so brief; as of some centennial Cactus-flower, which after a century of waiting shines out for hours! Thus from the day when rough Clovi... ...ushed back into its dim depths, and the streets are swept clear. Not for a century and half had Rascality ventured to step forth in this fashion; not ... ...sailles but ‘men running with torches’ with shouts of jubilation. From the 2nd of May when they kissed the hand of Majesty, to this 30th of June when ... ...g thee forth stepdamelike, a Distraction into this distracted Eigh- teenth Century? Work is appointed thee there; which thou shalt do. The Three Hundr... ...this branch of human industry been carried by France, within the last half-century! Insurrection, which, Lafayette thought, might be ‘the most sacred ...

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... Folkestone in 1555, but no less than twenty-three times in the succeeding century and a half, a Jenkin (Will- iam, Thomas, Henry, or Robert) sat in t... ... 5. ‘OUR FIRST MATE was much hurt in securing a buoy on the evening of the 2nd. As interpreter [with the Italians] I am useful in all these cases; but...

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...my tongue in my head. I could only stare at him. He added more naturally: “2nd Reg. Castille, Cavalry.” Then with marked stress in Spanish, “En las fi... ...u can picture to yourself my mother, with her white hair done in some 18th century fashion and her sparkling black eyes, penetrating into those splend... ...n innocent shepherd in one of those interminable stories of the eighteenth century. But I don’t throw the word love about indiscrimi- nately. It may b... ...s tone that she made me ob- serve that we were not living in the fifteenth century. She gave me also to understand with some spirit that there was no ...

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...ap, xiv., in earlier times, and of the pupils of the Academy in the fourth century. The lawgiver was not an ordinary politician. He was a state doctor... ...xisted in unredeemed na- kedness, it was in the Greek cities of the fourth century, and its existence is abundantly recognised by Aristotle. His ac- c... ...ter editions of separate works: De Anima: T orstrik, 1862; T rendelenburg, 2nd edition, 1877, with English translation, E. W allace, 1882; Biehl, 1884...

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...e many brilliant shops whose casements shone upon Chepe, there stood one a century back (about which period our tale opens) devoted to the sale of Col... ...nd daily now: ’twas lonely and unfrequented at the end of that seventeenth century with which our story commences. Along the darkening mountain-paths ... ...ng of mounting hup! the St. Helena’s walked up 4 per cent this very day.” “2ND JULY.—Rode my bay oss Desperation in the park. There was me, Lord Georg... ...lagon. In a word, his life was intolerable. The dinner hour of the twelfth century, it is known, was very early; in fact, people dined at ten o’clock ...

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...r ancient folk lore. Tacitus, writing in the very beginning of the second century of the Christian era, mentions the Fenni, as he calls them, in the ... ...tract the attention of scholars. And, in fact, as early as the seventeenth century, we meet men of literary tastes who tried to collect and interpret ... ...in 1835 at Helsingfors, the quotation beginning with the 150th line of the 2nd Rune: Louhi Pohjolan emanta Sanan wirkko, noin nimesi: “Niin mita minul...

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...quisitely wrought, of Johnson amid widely various set- tings of Eighteenth-Century England. And sub- ject and setting are so closely allied that each ... ...n was, undoubtedly, much formed upon that of the great writers in the last century, Hooker, Bacon, Sanderson, Hakewell, and others; those ‘Giants,’ as... ... me concerning him: ‘That having seen such a man, was a thing to talk of a century hence,’—as if he could live so long. We got into an argument whethe... ...onate, and most humble servant, ‘January 20, 1780.’ ‘SAM. JOHNSON.’ On the 2nd of May I wrote to him, and re- quested that we might have another meeti...

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...ve to advance his fortune that way. ’Twas in the first year of the present century, Mr. Esmond (as far as he knew the period of his birth) being then ... ... of pioneers 220 Henry Esmond employed to strengthen the position. On the 2nd of July his Grace stormed the post, with what success on our part need ...

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... he did, the date is not there. Do you think the ink is going to say March 2nd? Why should not July have done it last half?” “July would have told if ... ... on the subject. “What would old Nicholas Randall say to these nineteenth- century doings?” finished Norman. “Down, with them!” cried a voice from the...