Piers himself became and continued an ideal for men who longed for a less selfish and brutal world, and a century and a half later the poem was still cherished by the Protestants for its exposure of the vices of the Church.
Never before in the history of the St. Cecilia Society, covering a period of a century and a half, had an account of one of its balls, and the names of those attending, been printed.
I was in the drawing-room of a fine old house; a beautifully proportioned room, paneled to the ceiling, hung with family portraits and other old paintings, and furnished with mahogany masterpieces a century and a half old.
It is a brick house, nearly a century and a half old, with a lovely old portico, and it contains two of the most interesting relics I saw on my entire journey in the South.
A century and a half later the Hatti had returned into a darkness even deeper than that from which they emerged.
This measure marked Assyria's definite annexation of the lands in Mesopotamia, which had been under Aramaean government for at least a century and a half.
Within a century and a half, by the close of the reign of Murad II.
Could such a many-chambered edifice have stood a century and a half and not have had its passages of romance to bequeath their lingering legends to the after-time?
Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story houses which had been its neighbors for a century and more.
Somewhat in this way, a century and a half later, another New England physician, Dr.
The Tatars retained possession of Bagdad for a century and a half, until about A.
The celebrated Roman baths are all in ruins, except one massive, domed building, dating from the 6th century and still in use, although modern baths are also open, for the development of the hot springs.
Scotland has had a Presbyterian establishment during a century and a half.
Within a century and a half after the Norman conquest, the Great Charter was conceded.
A century and a half ago nothing stood upon the spot where the town now stands but a few fishermen's huts.
There is one house still standing on the east side of the lake, a weather-beaten veteran of a century and a half.
We descend into the village--which lies as if in a slumber that has lasted for a century and a half--at the head of the bay.
A century and a half ago an address of thanks could have been put into small space.
After a century and a half of labor-saving machinery, we work about as hard as ever.
We live in an age that is at best about a century and a half old--the age of machinery and power.
In this system mankind placed its hopes for over half a century and under it the industrial civilization of the age of machinery rose to the plenitude of its power.
In 1763 the fortress was levelled to the ground, and now a few mounds of turf alone represent the ambitions of France a century and a half ago.
This question grew out of the grant to the Protestant Church in Canada of large tracts of land by the imperial act of 1791, and created much bitterness of feeling for a quarter of a century and more.
Prophecy is a moral, not a magical thing; and nothing would be gained by the delivery of a message over a century and a half before it was needed, to a people to whom it was irrelevant and unintelligible.
Footnote 1: Even if the earliest possible date (about 600) for this section be accepted, the earthquake had taken place a century and a half before.
These narratives must precede the redaction of the book by a century and a half or more, and we have them pretty much as they left the hand of the original writers.
At once the prophet addresses himself thereto, announcing the siege of Jerusalem and the captivity of Judah--Israel has already been languishing in exile for a century and a half (iv.
It may be safely concluded, then, that the Psalter brings us within about a century and a half of the Christian era.
The trouble between the English and the Welsh ended early, but it has been only a century and a half ago since the closing scene of the long and bitter conflict between the north and south was enacted at Carlisle.
When the long years of border warfare ended, a century and a half ago, the town inside of the wall must have appeared much the same as it does today.
It is now a city of fifty thousand and dates its rise from the patronage of royalty a century and a half ago.
The two syllabuses are interesting reminders as to what were the usual subjects of education for European boys and girls a century and a half ago.
The Portuguese had already been in India for nearly a century and a half; and under their early and able viceroys they had made themselves powerful.
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