Another decennium had to pass (Shakspere had long since withdrawn to his Stratford) before the taste of Whitehall had been so much lowered that Jonson could become a favourite of the courtly element.
In the last but one decennium of the sixteenth century, the first dramatists arose who pursued fixed literary tendencies.
In England, it is true that the largest cities show during the last decennium a certain slackening in the pace of growth.
The disposition or predisposition to renewed attacks continues marked during the decennium immediately succeeding; after which attacks are more and more infrequent.
Apostolorum limina singulis decenniis visitare, et status propriae Dioecesis relationem presentare, initium decennii sumere debeant a die propriae consecrationis, an primum decennium numerare a data[22] constitutionis s.
The events of this war are covered in Cotton Mather’s Decennium Luctuosum, an history of remarkable occurrences in the long war .
The high rate of a decennium is not unfrequently brought up by one great explosion.
In the following year and throughout the rest of the decennium the district had its usual low average of enteric-fever deaths.
Now we may hope the same thing of the decennium on which we are entering, the beginning of which is made conspicuous by the great forcing-house of art, which has not yet got the name it is to keep.
In the last decennium of the century, the Ecclesiastical Polity of Hooker is a monument of real learning, in profane as well as theological antiquity.
It has been already shown, that most editions of classics printed in France and Germany are in the lastdecennium of the century.
Most of the papers of this decennium deal with vertebrate morphology, and are more or less connected with his former researches, but in one respect, at least, he broke quite fresh ground.
The second decennium still found him employed chiefly in research, vertebrate and extinct forms absorbing most of his attention.
He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.
It is the mere necessity of a logical sorites, that such a horrible race of villains as the men of the twenty-fifth decenniumought not to be suffered to breathe.
Every decennium is regularly worse than that which precedes it, until the mind is perfectly confounded by the Pelion upon Ossa which must overwhelm the last term of the twenty-five.
Out of such promises as these the glories of English drama were ripened by the warmth and light of the great Elizabethan age--of which the beginnings may fairly be reckoned from the third decennium of the reign to which it owes its name.
The history of the German stage remains to about the second decennium of the 18th century one of the most melancholy, as it is in its way one of the most instructive, chapters of theatrical history.
The second decennium saw it proclaimed to Asia Minor; but it is only when the third decennium is opening that Christ despatches a formal mission to that Europe where the greatest triumphs of the gospel were afterwards to be won.
We have much need to distinguish century from century and decennium from decennium.
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