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Example sentences for "ancient history"

  • Hall, Ancient History of the Near East, says it has been found in Palestine.

  • The writer has consulted Skrine and Ross's Heart of Asia, Hirth's Ancient History of China, S.

  • It equally wants the interest derived from ancient history, and the appearance of misery inseparable from present decay.

  • His early volume (Studies in Ancient History, 1876) contains several essays published some time before that date.

  • Until about 1893 the only course given really serious attention in the high school was that of Ancient History in the classical course.

  • Professor of Ancient History in the University of Berlin.

  • Camden Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.

  • Heeren, Manual of Ancient History; but Mr. Mitford and Mr. Thirlwall properly reject this spurious treaty.

  • Thus situated, the fugitive formed a resolution which a great mind only could have conceived, and which presents to us one of the most touching pictures in ancient history.

  • It is more nearly certain than most things are in ancient history, that the civilized peoples of western Asia, Africa and Europe, including Gutenberg himself, did not know of movable type until Gutenberg invented them.

  • As to the other agencies that influenced the course of ancient history, they seem to owe their influence even more obviously to invention than war does.

  • Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford.

  • The northern and eastern parts of Asia are less known in ancient history.

  • I have also received great assistance from the learned Dean Prideaux’s Connection of the Old and New Testament, in which he has traced and cleared up, in an admirable manner, the particulars relating to ancient history.

  • I knew only the great men of Whelpley's ancient history, and the poet Byron.

  • With the discovery of certain books of ancient history, Plutarch, Euripides and Emerson's Essays there came an unexpected close to my student life at the Worcester Academy.

  • The whole passage is cited in Davis's "Readings in Ancient History," vol.

  • Significant passages are quoted in Davis's "Readings in Ancient History," vol.

  • Lost in admiration of the luxuriance of the cultivation of this part of the Punjab, and full of the interest aroused by the fact that he was on classical ground, the ground of ancient history, he wandered into Lahore.

  • India is full of ancient literature, but there is no ancient history.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient authors; ancient buildings; ancient church; ancient city; ancient civilization; ancient date; ancient demesne; ancient glaciers; ancient glass; ancient history; ancient lineage; ancient philosophy; ancient religion; ancient temple; ancient writers; conscious mind; deep emotion; folk tales; green hair; her best; luik efter; perfectly natural; public sentiment; said vnto; second pair; the likeness