For of these, some were made after that action was over, and the earliest of them refer to its concluding events.
The earliest dwellers in Italy made the receptacles for the ashes of the dead exactly like the cabins in which they dwelt.
Among the earliest and most eminent on its list stands the name of Jacques Cartier.
On the eighth of July, he wrote from Dieppe to the King the earliest description known to exist of the shores of the United States.
This is Champlain's journal, written and illustrated by his own hand, in that defiance of perspective and absolute independence of the canons of art which mark the earliest efforts of the pencil.
FN#27] The earliest maps and narratives indicate a city, also called Norembega, on the banks of the Penobseot.
Having written, sir, one letter to you in common with the Chevalier de Ternay, permit me to address myself to you with the frankness authorised by the warm affection I have felt, and endeavoured to prove to you, from my earliest youth.
If, on your march, you should receive certain intelligence of the evacuation of Rhode Island, by the enemy, you are immediately to counter march for this place, giving me the earliest advice thereof.
But as they failed to produce anything, and Lucian in an after age is scarcely characteristic enough for the purpose, perhaps we may pronounce Rabelais and Montaigne the earliest of writers in the class described.
His achievements are the earliest recorded evidence of scientific military organization on a large scale, and of its overwhelming effects.
Fighting ensued, and my father was killed in one of the earliest engagements that took place.
Concurrently--and at the earliest possible date--must come application of knowledge obtained through research, demonstration projects and field investigations performed within the Potomac Basin and elsewhere.
These studies should be completed and the findings reported to the Congress and to State and local governments at the earliest possible time.
This is, in fact, the earliest form of the modern pianoforte.
Instead of Dissenters as in New England, Quakers as in Pennsylvania, or Romanists as in Maryland, Virginia, from her earliest colonization, was identified with the Church of England.
From the earliest years of this extraordinary young man, his premature abilities were not more conspicuous than an almost faultless disposition, sustained by a more calm self-command than has often been witnessed in that season of life.
So far from analysis being the earliest predominant tendency of the intellect, almost all its most familiar and ordinary acts are those of synthesis.
This Method characterized the intellectual activity of the race from the earliest beginnings of thought up to a period which is commonly said to have commenced with the publication of the Novum Organum of Lord Bacon.
The chief temple of Ur was dedicated to the moon-god, and the Accadian inscriptions on its bricks, which record its foundation, are among the earliest that we possess.
Only a few years ago the gap between the time when the Phoenicians first borrowed their new alphabet and the time to which the earliest texts written in it belonged was very great indeed.
It is, therefore, somewhat surprising that a series of penitential psalms exists, coming down from the earliestperiod of Babylonian history, which breathe a much more exalted and purer spirit.
Recently the Chinese residents at Lhassa, in Thibet, implored the Emperor to cause arrangements to be made which would enable them to receive their copies of the almanack at the earliest possible date in each year.
Our earliest recollection of Emma was as a child in our Sunday School, which she was led, in a very marked way, to attend.
Such were the terms on which all except the earliest labourers were hired.
Dolichocephaly, according to Retzius, was the distinctive cranial feature of the earliest inhabitants of Europe.
The Palice of Honour, his earliest work, is a piece of the later type of dream-allegory, extending to over 2000 lines in nine-lined stanzas.
From these we pass to the domes of Perigord and La Charente, the earliest of which date from the commencement of the 11th century.
His comedies were the earliest examples of the class distinguished as motoriae from the statariae and the mixtae by their greater freedom and turbulence of movement.
They are probably the earliest poems of their kind in the language, and they are full of force and picturesqueness.
Thus, by the time the Indian drama produced almost the earliest specimens with which we are acquainted, it had already reached its zenith; and it was therefore looked upon as having sprung into being as a perfect art.
The date is conjectural, since the scanty contemporary records of Donatello's life are contradictory, the earliest documentary reference to the master bearing the date 1406, when a payment is made to him as an independent sculptor.
The dome is probably one of the earliestforms of covering invented by man, but owing probably to its construction in ephemeral materials, such as the unburnt bricks in Chaldaea, there are no examples existing.
He now issued his earliest volume of poems, Digte (1872), and joined the group of young Radical writers who gathered under the banner of Brandes.
To the topographer, as to the genealogist, its evidence is of primary importance; for it not only contains the earliest survey of a township or manor, but affords in the majority of cases the clue to its subsequent descent.
The history of the grand achievement is embodied in the earliest myths both of the Old and the New World.
Isaac Taylor, in his Origin of the Aryans, assuming the priority of the Canstadt man, speaks of him as “this primitive savage, the earliest inhabitant of Europe.
None of them indicates any trace of immigration within the period of earliest authentic history.
An ideographic purpose appears to underlie the earliest efforts of imitative art.
But whatever was the source of this all-important discovery, it dates among the earliest manifestations of human intelligence.
The Spanish ballad epic is a characteristic example of the epics formed by the earliest poetic genius of a country, on the basis of the patriotic stories of national origin that had been accumulating for centuries.
To begin with a well known example of decorative effect which is found in the earliest of the English Cathedrals, that of Lincoln.
From the very earliest traditions of their order the Franciscans had their eyes attracted towards the East.
From the earliest times certain books, mainly on medicine, were collected at the Hotel Dieu, the great hospital of Paris, and this collection was added to from time to time by the bequests of physicians in attendance there.
The most important contribution to the fiction of the century is to be found in the collection known as the Cento Novelle Antiche or "Hundred Ancient Tales," which contains the earliest prose fiction extant in Italian.
Tradition shows that from the earliest time there were foundations on which poor students could live, and various arrangements were made by which, aside from these, they might make their living while continuing their studies.
The earliest extant documents with regard to it are from the {384} Reign of Henry III.
We have said that the Chester Cycle is the one of which there is earliest mention.
Lady Huntingdon was one of the earliest contributors to this important object, and through her influence Lord Chesterfield gave twenty pounds to it.
There is a fascination as well as fervor, or rather a fascination arising from fervor, in some of his earliest as well as his later discourses.
This year he lost by death some of his earliest and warmest friends, including Hervey in England, and Presidents Burr and Edwards, and Governor Belcher, in America.
In earliest days, iron locks and hinges of a Gothic prudence as to size and invulnerability, ushered in the century, but it was still the time of Shakespeare, and that time threw a glance back to the Gothic just left behind.
And so it happens that our earliest bits of furniture, chairs that supported grim Pilgrim fathers, tables which were set out by provident Puritan mothers and maids, are Jacobean in mode.
Worms are a constant source of trouble from the earliest days of puppy-hood, and no puppy suffering from them will thrive; every effort, therefore, should be made to get rid of them.
The earliest authorities agree that this breed was first introduced from Dalmatia, and that he was brought into this country purely on account of his sporting proclivities.
The earliest authentic record we have of the Bedlington was a dog named Old Flint, who belonged to Squire Trevelyan, and was whelped in 1782.
The earliest references to him are far back in the primitive ages, long before he was beautifully depicted by Assyrian artists, straining at the leash or racing after his prey across the desert sands.
Bradford, and not Babylon, was his earliest home, and he must be candidly acknowledged to be a very modern manufactured variety of the dog.
The Earl of Onslow and the late Sir John Everett Millais were among the earliest importers of the breed into England.
He was certainly one of the earliest breeders and owners, and his celebrated Albert was only one of the many admirable specimens with which he convinced the public of the charms of this variety of dog.
In his earliest youth he should be trained to prompt obedience to a given word or a wave of the hand.
Pickett, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was perhaps the earliest supporter of the breed on a large scale, and his Tynedale and Tyneside in especial have left their names in the history of the Bedlington.
These terriers belonging to the Allans and others in the district are considered by Mr. Cook to be the earliest known ancestors of the modern Dandie Dinmont.
He glories in the fact that from his earliest days he has never fought the white man, but his life has been a long series of conflicts with other Indian nations.
As observed above, theearliest French chansons known to us are written in a strict syllabic metre, with a regular cæsura, and arranged in distinct though not uniformly long laisses, each tipped with an identical assonance.
But both, as well as the work in lyric and narrative of Heinrich von Veldeke, date well within the twelfth century, and the earliest of them may not be much younger than its middle.
The earliest French chronicles of the ordinary compiling kind date from this time; and (which is of infinitely greater importance) it is from this time (cir.
Footnote 55: It is fair to say that Mark, like Gawain, appears to have gone through a certain process of blackening at the hands of the late romancers; but the earliest story invited this.
Between the earliest Italian and the earliest Spanish literature, however, there are striking differences to be noted.
There are, however, early mentions of certain cantilenæ or ballads; and it has been assumed by some scholars that the earliest chansons were compounded out of precedent ballads of the kind.
The principal andearliest version of the English Alexander is accessible without much difficulty in Weber's Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries.
In the earliest Italian, or rather Sicilian, poetry quite different influences are perceptible.
The emblem may have had its origin in the earliest ages, when the disciplina arcani was carried out.
It is therefore with a view to supply some information directly to this point, that I now beg to introduce to your readers my earliest edition, which looks very like the editio princeps of Part III.
The same symbol or device, well known to all lovers of ancient wood-engraving, appears in some of the earliestspecimens of that art.
She scarcely read any book but this-- faithful to her earliest habits.
I have little doubt but that Louis XV indulged himself to this extent by a kind of mental vow to settle the affair with his confessor at the earliest opportunity.
Because I reproach myself with having in my own prosperity forgotten one of my earliest and dearest friends, who loved me with the tenderest affection.
He is the earliest exponent in the sixteenth century of a fresh and unique type of religion, deeply influenced by the mystics of a former time, but even more profoundly moulded by the new humanistic conceptions of man's real nature.
Aloud he asked her what was the earliest date at which she could put herself into his hands.
She had learned that Lady de Tilly had returned to Quebec, she said, and she had, therefore, taken the earliest opportunity to find out her dear friend and school-fellow to tell her all the doings in the city.
Pierre recollected having seen these same old friends seated at the same card-table during his earliest visits to the Manor House.
JOHN READ, "one of the earliest Scotch gardening writers.
The earliest account I can find of an English writer on Gardening, is, Alfred, an Englishman, surnamed the Philosopher, much respected at Rome.
The earliest accounts we have of gardens, are those recorded in Holy Writ; their antiquity, therefore, appears coeval with that of time itself.
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