Nor are these anachronisms the only proofs of the ignorance of the composers of the two anti-evangels.
The anachronisms of both accounts are so gross as to prove that they were drawn up at a very late date, and by Jews singularly ignorant of the chronology of their history.
The anachronisms in which Le Sage is entangled, by applying a story to the seventeenth century that relates to the thirteenth, prove his ignorance of Spanish history.
The argument (2 and 3) that the eight rejected Epistles betray anachronisms and interpolations, is no refutation of my statement, for the same accusation is brought by the majority of critics against the Vossian Epistles.
They abound in anachronisms which point to an age later than Eusebius, as the date of their composition.
I send you a further addition to the "Anachronisms of Painters," mentioned in Vol.
The play is intended to represent the ancient Celtic times in Britain, eight hundred years before Christ; and such is its power and pathos, that we care little for its glaring anachronisms and curious errors.
We may waive a special notice of his Pastorals, which, like those of Dryden, are but clever imitations of Theocritus and anachronisms of the Alexandrian period.
His anachronisms and historical inaccuracies have already been referred to.
They were neither very learned nor very careful; anachronisms and mistakes swarm under their pen.
One does not have to be so very learned to have things right, but there are certain anachronisms which cry to heaven and a little knowledge in advance goes a long way.
In either case the true feeling must be kept and no startling anachronisms should be allowed; radiators, for instance, should be hidden in window-seats.
Anachronisms no doubt are easily to be discovered, from which none of the chroniclers of the day were or could be expected to be exempt.
Lipsius (Die Edessenische Abgarsage, 1880) has pointed out anachronisms which seem to indicate that the story is quite unhistorical.
Anachronisms abound in the works of Raphael and Shakespeare, as well as in those of the meanest daubers and playwrights of earlier times.
The society in which he lived was not far different, in morals and manners, from that which he portrayed, so that he can have committed very few anachronisms or incongruities; and in sentiments and character-drawing he could not go far astray.
Buckland was enabled to guard against such anachronismsin his investigations of several of the English caves.
It is, however, a class of accidents more likely than almost any other to lead to serious anachronisms in geological chronology.
I will undertake to prove that Shakspeare's anachronisms are, for the most part, committed of set purpose and deliberately.
All these anachronisms decisively prove the spuriousness of these compositions.
Many of the poems and prose works attributed to Rowley, exhibit anachronisms similar to that now mentioned.
Other anachronisms may be traced in the poems before us, but they are of less weight, being more properly poetical deviations from costume.
There is no mosaic, except in the epic poetry of the Fourth Age, which imitated the Homeric poetry, but is full of conspicuous anachronisms in essential points.
Admirable as the books are, they do not give us a high opinion of the intelligence of the artists, nor of the culture of their owners, for they are full of anachronisms and absurdities in the pictures and in the text.
The designs are rudely drawn, and are as full of anachronisms in architecture as the illustrations of the Bible of the Poor, but the architecture most frequently shown is in the pointed Gothic style.
No stress can be laid on testimony derived from a passage which contains such obvious anachronisms and other inaccuracies; but the mention of Papias here courts inquiry, and time will not be ill spent in the endeavour to account for it.
It abounds in anachronisms of fact or diction; its language diverges widely from the Ignatian quotations in the writers of the first five centuries.
The Ignatian Epistles therefore were weighted with all the anachronisms and impossibilities which condemn the Long Recension in the judgment of modern critics of all schools.
All the supposed anachronisms to which objection has been taken in these Epistles fail on closer investigation.
On this document I am unable to accept the conclusion of Cureton and of Dr Phillips, that the work itself is a much earlier and authentic document, and that the passages containing these anachronisms are interpolations.
At the same time it contains gross anachronisms and misstatements respecting earlier Christian history, which hardly allow us to place it much earlier than the middle of the third century [279:3].
Anachronisms and the like are in themselves of no account, and become important only when they make a gap too wide for our illusion to cross unconsciously, that is, when they are anacoluthons to the imagination.
The alleged anachronisms of the Pentateuch have been adduced as testimony that it could not have been written till long after the time of Moses.
Chaudon and Delaudine, speaks of the "errors and anachronisms with which this impertinent list swarms.
These alleged anachronisms are generally the insertion of a modern name of a city instead of the ancient name, or an explanatory addition which would not have been necessary in the days of Moses.
This may stand for a specimen of the alleged anachronisms of the Pentateuch.
But Hengstenberg has[130] examined these alleged anachronisms in detail, and shown that the objectors allow themselves to interpolate into the text a meaning of their own in order to show the inaccuracy of the Bible.
Stallbaum that Plato intentionally left anachronisms indicating the dates at which some of his Dialogues were written.
That anachronisms whether of religion or law, when men have reached another stage of civilization, should be got rid of by fictions is in accordance with universal experience.
But I have sufficiently proved, in the Course of my Notes, that such Anachronisms were the Effect of poetic Licence, rather than of Ignorance in our Poet.
Very amusing have been the anachronisms which have resulted from these illustrations of artistic vanity, and diverting are the glimpses which they give of the tastes and sensibilities of great prime donne.
Needlessly is the attention distracted by these anachronisms which upset the spectator's equanimity in a play that is pulsating with ever-living human emotion.
I will undertake to prove that Shakespeare's anachronisms are, for the most part, committed of set purpose and deliberately.
To that simple way of thinking, which is merely attentive to the inward truth of the composition, without stumbling at anachronisms or other external inconsistencies, we cannot, alas!
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