The leaning towards heathen cults, which had been so strongly manifest in earlier times, had completely disappeared; the prophets and psalms of this date employ no weapon but ridicule against idolatry.
This is the case at Sichem and Gibeon; Bethel was likewise a Canaanitish town in earlier times.
The principal manufactories of this sort were, in earlier times, at Sidon: Homer repeatedly praises its raiment.
In earlier times it was supposed to draw on and feed the demons; afterwards it was regarded as the surest means of driving them away.
We are told that, in Egypt, King Amosis ordered three waxen images to be burned in the temple of Heliopolis in lieu of the three men who in earlier times used to be sacrificed there.
A petty thief in the pillory and a scold on the cucking-stool were, in earlier times, spectacles familiar to everybody, whilst persons still living remember seeing offenders publicly whipped in the streets.
The poets, unlike those of earlier times, belonged to the lesser gentry who were suffering from the prevailing inflation.
The wheel was already known in earlier times in the form of the potter's wheel.
Nothing of the sort, I believe, was experienced in the village in earlier times.
This custom was not by any means more barbarous than that of the ancient world in general, which, in earlier times at least, gave the father full power over the lives of his children.
With this period an entirely new era in the history of the constitution of Argos commences, although this state of things has from its greater notoriety often been improperly applied also to earlier times.
The softer materials employed in earlier times, such as shell, marble or serpentine, were possibly engraved with tools made of flint, but the harder stones would require an implement made of some more stubborn material.
As in earlier times, it owned a large number of cattle and sheep, and the administration of its property seems to have caused Khammurabi a considerable amount of anxiety.
This stone jar like the Assyrian jars differs from most of the inscribed vessels of earlier times, which usually bear a dedicatory inscription, while in shape it is not unlike the Assyrian jars seen in Fig.
And the fact that the people are by no means so well-to-do as in earlier times, and are therefore less able to entertain strangers, has no doubt tended in the same direction.
It is heavy in form, and the muzzle in no way recalls the fine profile of the lions executed by the sculptors of earlier times.
In earlier times, indeed, through their occasional communication with the Greeks of Cumae, and the other colonies in Italy, they had obtained a vague knowledge of some of the legends of Greek poetry.
Foreign influences entered to modify clothing so that it tended more to fit the body than before, with a resulting abandonment of the flowing garments of earlier times.
In earlier times, when wealth was territorial and serfs were numerous, the land-rich nobility had been secure, but that day had passed.
Interior commerce still encountered the difficulties which had harassed it in earlier times, but some of them were overcome through the development of fairs to facilitate exchange.
Though these at this epoch were doubtless less important than in earlier times,[222] yet the mercantile intercourse continued very lively.
It is thus a marked peculiarity of this district that the chief towns, with Venice itself at their head, have not lived on continuously as chief towns from Roman or earlier times.
If that visit taught me some things with regard to our own times as well as to earlier times, it is not, I think, either wonderful or blameworthy.
Another more regularly assorted collection will be found in the local museum, which has the advantage of containing several plans, showing the extent of the city in earlier times.
There we may trace out the churches, gates, and other buildings, which have perished since the date of the map, remembering always that the Aquileia of the fifteenth century was the merest fragment of the vast city of earlier times.
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