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Example sentences for "ancient and modern times"

  • Through every medium of correct information, we learn that the most distinguished men, both in ancient and modern times, were pre-eminently distinguished for their abstemiousness, and the simplicity of their diet.

  • This is a very wonderful animal; and has, both in ancient and modern times, been duly estimated in the Eastern world.

  • The next object that rises in our view is MOUNT ATHOS,--a mountain of Chalcidia in Macedonia, equally celebrated in ancient and modern times.

  • The resemblance which his story and his ceremonies present to those of Osiris have led some enquirers both in ancient and modern times to hold that Dionysus was merely a disguised Osiris, imported directly from Egypt into Greece.

  • The tone by which that form of poetry has been characterised, in ancient and modern times, is derived from the genius and temper of a remarkable man, belonging to that era, and from the spirit in which he regarded the world.

  • It would be easy for me to insert here a long list of texts, drawn from the writings of the most illustrious men of ancient and modern times, who have insisted upon this very point.

  • But there are several circumstances which show that the depositions from water could not have been essentially different in ancient and modern times.

  • It may seem strange, but it is true, that some Christian philosophers and divines have been, in ancient and modern times, the advocates of the eternity of matter.

  • Exceptions may be found, both in ancient and modern times, but the representation in the text proceeds obviously upon the ordinary habits of society.

  • This parable, accordingly, like that of the tares, has been impressed into their own service by the opponents of discipline both in ancient and modern times.

  • He was exceedingly well read in Jewish literature, and compiled an alphabetical register of the names of Jewish authors of ancient and modern times.

  • What more was needed to confirm the predictions of prophets of ancient and modern times?

  • This doom has overtaken many nationalities of ancient and modern times.

  • The strong medicinal qualities of the waters, which are especially adapted for the cure of skin diseases and gout, have attracted patients in ancient and modern times.

  • Several other islands are known to have appeared in the same bay both in ancient and modern times.

  • M62) The belief in the physical fatherhood of God has not been confined to Syria in ancient and modern times.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient authors; ancient castle; ancient coins; ancient date; ancient days; ancient demesne; ancient family; ancient glass; ancient history; ancient name; ancient people; ancient period; ancient sculpture; ancient tradition; ancient wisdom; chapter house; decide whether; department store; each party; great marvel; making their; papal authority; rather soft; schools were; sufficient cause; would call