Again, it is clear that Bede wrote his own name Baeda; but will anyone venture to hold that this represents the current pronunciation of his name in 731--or indeed for some half a century earlier?
Hence if the incidents which it relates are to be regarded as historical, they must be dated somewhat earlier, though certainly not more than a century earlier, than Hygelac's expedition.
The number of Florentine settlements and offices had been already very considerable a century earlier.
At bottom it was but a complement of the estimo, and the expression catasto for census, from accatastare, to pile together, was used in Florence a century earlier.
The castle dates from 1578, except one tower that is over a century earlier.
Then the architect was entrusted with filling the windows with tracery; and he, not comprehending the character of the nave, inserted tracery of a century earlier in style.
This Locke must not be confounded with Richard Lock, the circle-squarer and general paradoxist, who flourished a century earlier.
The latter was of peculiar form, and differed greatly in design from the sectional boiler invented a quarter of a century earlier by John Stevens, in the United States.
There is also a large class of cases, virtually unknown a century earlier, significant of a vital change in the intellectual tendencies of the nation, calling for the special vigilance of the Inquisition.
The only difference between this and the practice of a century earlier, was a clause that his person was to be delivered to the secular justice.
A century earlier he would have been arrested and, on proof of the offence, he would have been sentenced to scourging or the galleys.
Except for her namesake of Spain, a century earlier, who throughout her political life had been the ally and wife of one of the cleverest statesmen of the age, there was no instance since the mistiest past of a queen-regnant a leader of men.
A way up the rock was found, at the top, an inn, just where Cellini had found one nearly half a century earlier.
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