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Example sentences for "early period"

  • Notwithstanding the previous neglect, as it would seem, of this Song in Jewish worship, its use by Christians dates from an early period.

  • Thus it is evident that the use of this hymn became general at an early period, and so continued, having never receded in Christian esteem as a valued factor in public worship.

  • This tract was less sequestered than the more northern one, and contains traces of having been subjected to influences from Egypt at an early period.

  • The fertile coast tract between Hippo Regius and the straits is likely to have been occupied at various points from an early period.

  • Ebusus and the Baleares, again, were occupied by the Carthaginians themselves at an early period, partly for the fisheries, partly as advanced posts against the Massiliots, with whom furious conflicts were waged from these stations.

  • Commerce Manufacturing Industry The prominence of transmarine commerce at an early period in the Roman national economy has already been adverted to in its proper place.

  • Another plan of dredging, practised at an early period in rivers of considerable breadth, was to moor two barges, one on each side of the river.

  • The Dutch, at an early period, used what is termed the "bag and spoon" dredger for cleansing their canals.

  • Hence the crossing of aboriginally distinct species probably came into play at an early period in the formation of our present races.

  • If we go back to an early period of history, we behold in the antique Greek statues, as Schaaffhausen has remarked (20/75.

  • In all the foregoing cases the two sides are perfectly symmetrical at an early period of growth.

  • There is no doubt that from an early period of the Middle Ages the religious processions gave rise to the use of masks.

  • In the maritime cities boat-racing was among the number, and the Venetian regattas were famous at an early period.

  • The attacks and the satirical pictures began, as we have said, at an early period.

  • At an early period, we find Italians sharing in the discoveries made in the Atlantic Ocean; it was the Genoese who, in the thirteenth century found the Canary Islands.

  • At an early period, its government took measures to promote a general subscription throughout all the towns in this Colony, in aid of its small funds.

  • I expressed the opinion, at an early period, to all those to whom I was entitled to speak, that it would be a great deal better to forbear further action at present.

  • Leaving his profession at an early period, yet not before he had singularly distinguished himself in it, his whole life, from the commencement of the Revolution until his final retirement, was a life of public service.

  • It was to public employment that he aspired from an early period of life; but he did not readily find it in the unquiet times in which his lot was cast.

  • He is not a historical personage, but an idea consolidated, no doubt at an early period, into a god.

  • At an early period of Mr. Fox's ministry a Frenchman made the proposition to him of assassinating the Emperor, of which information was immediately transmitted to M.

  • But they bore testimony with the others to the comparative abundance of reptilian life at an early period, when the coal-bearing strata of the empire were little more than half deposited.

  • It was remarked at an early period that he ought to have restricted his publication to the formations which lie between the Chalk and the Red Marl inclusive; or, in other words, to the great Secondary division.

  • Without the use of some language, however imperfect, it appears doubtful whether man's intellect could have risen to the standard implied by his dominant position at an early period.

  • And it is admitted by moralists of the derivative school and by some intuitionists, that the standard of morality has risen since an early period in the history of man.

  • Owing, however, to their passion for imitating Europeans, they altered their manner of dressing at an early period, and the use of alcoholic drinks became very general.

  • To sum up the whole curious case: wild silver-greys may be considered as black rabbits which become grey at an early period of life.

  • These insects are in several respects interesting to us, more especially because they have varied largely at an early period of life, and the variations have been inherited at corresponding periods.

  • The depravity of the sex was extreme even at an early period, and Xenophon, Plutarch, and Aristotle, impute to this cause the ultimate subversion of the Spartan state.

  • At an early period of the Baptist mission to India, Dr.

  • With these tribes these adventurers had formed at an early period a connection with a view to avail themselves of that force to promote their own projects of accumulation and aggrandizement.

  • The principles upon which the commercial policy of the United States is founded are to be traced to an early period.

  • The season was too far advanced when the appropriation was made and the distance too great to permit it, but measures have been taken, and all the preparations will be completed to accomplish it at an early period in the next season.

  • At an early period of the present year remonstrances were made to the governor of that island, by an agent who was sent for the purpose, against those outrages on the peaceful commerce of the United States, of which many had occurred.

  • Furthermore, we may conclude that transitional grades between structures fitted for very different habits of life will rarely have been developed at an early period in great numbers and under many subordinate forms.

  • Lastly, an embryo may be developed, and then perish at an early period.

  • It need hardly be remarked that this term had been from an early period employed in the Church of Rome to indicate a place of resort for meditation and penance during certain periods of the year.


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