Two professors at Heidelberg, at an earlier date (1494), had written panegyrics on Gutenberg as the inventor of typography, in which he is honored above all the great men of antiquity.
Montfaucon, a learned antiquary, says that he could find no book nor leaf of linen paper of earlier date, but he thinks that it was known and used in Europe to a limited extent before 1270.
Gloucester cathedral, of an earlier date, and represents the three shepherds, astonished at the appearance of the star which announced the birth of the Saviour of mankind.
Some parts of this costume, at least, appear to have been borrowed from an earlier date.
The genuine documentary evidence of Vinland is recoverable from manuscripts of earlier date, and a widely different character.
Others have with more probability assigned an earlier date.
From this we may conclude that Palsgrave was continuing the studies he had begun at an earlier date at the University of Paris.
There are thus thirty statues in all, and most were no doubt carved at the time of the erection of the front; but two or three appear to be of earlier date, and may possibly have formed part of the embellishments of the Saxon church.
The choir aisles are vaulted; the section of the vaulting ribs is much heavier than in the aisles of the nave, and shews an earlier date.
Hertwig[117] has also come to the same conclusion: at an earlier date he had looked upon the coalescence of nuclei as the most essential feature in the process of fertilization.
A less complete theory was brought forward by Galton at an earlier date, in 1872 (see Proc.
But as Donne died in 1631, I conceive that there must be one of earlier date.
Both these will be found, with others of an earlier date, in the third and fourth volumes of Grævius.
The resemblance is far too close to be accidental; and indeed this manuscript is not the only example we have of miniature painters copying patterns and motives from mosaic floors of earlier date.
Unlike the manuscripts ofearlier date in which the illuminated pictures are usually few in number, this Benedictional contains no less than thirty full page miniatures, mostly consisting of scenes from the life of Christ.
Some of them appear rather to belong to an earlier date, for they reflect the situation, and even the words, of Haggai’s oracles, and represent the advent of Jehovah to Jerusalem as still future.
We have already seen that it is a piece of earlier date.
There are, however, three passages which provoke further examination—two of them because of the signs they bear of an earlier date, and one because of the alteration it has suffered in the interests of a later day in Israel’s history.
If we add that in its present form it cannot be of earlier date than 300 B.
If so, the martyrdom of Papias is a fiction, and he may have died a natural death at an earlier date; so that the not very serious difficulty of his longevity will disappear.
This indeed is a characteristic feature of the Apostle’s teaching at all times, and holds an equally prominent place in the epistles of an earlier date.
At an earlier date it seems to be favoured by Grotius (notes on ii.
The open profession of Christianity on inscriptions occurs at an earlier date in these parts than elsewhere.
Columbus dying May 20,—the effect of all which is only to carry back, much to Columbus’ credit, the compunction to an earlier date.
To this map he finds it impossible to assign anearlier date than 1541, since it discloses some reminders of the expedition of Coronado.
In 1514 he led an expedition to Cenú, to which Irving erroneously gives an earlier date.
My imagination was stained by the effects of this doctrine up to the year 1843; it had been obliterated from my reason and judgment at an earlier date; but the thought remained upon me as a sort of false conscience.
Philip himself died at Hierapolis in Phrygia; but one of his three daughters was buried at Ephesus, where perhaps he had resided at an earlier date.
It may have taken place there, but it may have occurred at an earlier date in Asia Minor, of which region Marcion was a native [115:2].
Gregory's immediate predecessor, to accomplish the desired change; and Dante had at an earlier date laboured to bring about the same object.
Ancient writers spoke of all these Gauls as Cimbri, and identified them with the Cimmerians of earlier date, who in Homeric times dwelt on the ocean next to the Laestrygones, in a region of wintry gloom, but where the sun set not in summer.
This is, however, a mere guess, and does not agree with the earlier date at which the club is known to have existed, nor with the accounts given of it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "earlier date" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
