These are the three great forms of servitude, characteristic of the three great epochs of civilization.
All great epochs of human progress, according to Morgan, coincide more or less directly with times of greater abundance in the means that sustain life.
Maine, thought he had made a stupendous discovery by saying that our whole progress over former epochs consisted in arriving from status to contract, from inherited to voluntarily contracted conditions.
Nay,[121] in the epochs in which intellectual superiority was undeniably on the side of philosophy, did the populace go to the academy or to the oracles?
But there is no fallacy so flagrant as to suppose that the modern ages have the peculiar privilege of scientific discovery, or that they are distinguished as the epochs of the most illustrious inventions.
Once in thirty years, it comes within fifteen million miles of the earth; and although the next of these choice epochs must be awaited for some decades, an opposition too favourable to be neglected occurred in 1900.
Moreover, the effectiveness of this device may not improbably be enhanced, through changes in the coronal spectrum at epochs of sun-spot maximum.
These epochs are peculiar and mislead the politicians who desire to convert them to profit.
Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
In any case, the very difference of the perspective of Acts and of Galatians, in recording the same epochs in Paul's history, argues such an independence in the former as is compatible only with an early date.
It has been found that the waters in the most distant parts of the globe were inhabited at the same epochs by testaceous animals corresponding, at least in generic character, with European fossils.
By comparing the current ideas at widely different epochs and under widely different civilisations, we are able to ascertain what part of our convictions is really innate and permanent, and what part has been acquired and is transient.
Besides the cycle of 52 years, or Katun, there was another great cycle peculiar to the Yucatecos, who referred to its periods for dating their principal epochs and the most notable events of their history.
All the great churches were the work of differentepochs and consequently contain several styles of architecture.
Although various epochs created her, radically different in their means and methods, still there is a certain intangible unity in her gorgeous expression and a unique picturesqueness in her dazzling presence.
The ninth of Thermidor is one of the great epochs in the history of Europe.
The history of this inscription is scarcely surpassed, in the interest it has excited, or the novel phases it has exhibited at successive epochs of theoretical speculation, by any Perusinian, Eugubine, or Nilotic riddle.
If we compute the epochs at twenty years each, we have 401 as the date when the migration began.
Men have fewer epochs in their lives than women, Agnes--at least, in ordinary circumstances.
His the quiet cell which he fills with the shapes of beauty--the solitude, from which he can banish the evil times whereon we are fallen, but in which he can dream back the great hearts and the glorious epochs of the past.
And the best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
He is famous chiefly for his accurate observations of star places which have been invaluable to astronomers of later epochs in ascertaining the proper motions of stars.
At epochs of practically stationary solar intensity, there is little or no precipitation; but quite generally he finds that great decrease of solar radiation is followed in from three to five days by heavy precipitation.
In regard to the classification of this material, varied and apparently heterogeneous, yet really interdependent, under the four epochs or volume-heads mentioned, I refer to the table given on another page.
Karanas, the works dealing with practical details of the calendar, for laying down epochs or points of time furnishing convenient bases for computation.
The imaginal disks make their appearance (that is, have been first detected) at very different epochs in the life; their absolute origin has been but little investigated.
And I heard the cry And hearing wept, of man's soul, heard the ages, The epochs of this earth as it were the feet Of multitudes in corridors.
The "law" which Saint-Simon educed from history was that epochs of organisation or construction, and epochs of criticism or revolution, succeed each other alternately.
His book On Public Felicity, or Considerations on the lot of Men in the various Epochs of History, appeared in 1772 and had a wide circulation.
Condorcet distinguished ten periods of civilisation, of which the tenth lies in the future, but he has not justified his divisions and his epochs are not co-ordinate in importance.
But even in those two great epochs little progress was made in natural philosophy.
Is there not something in the constitution of things which determines epochs of stagnation and vigour, some force against which man's understanding and will are impotent?
The tendency of man to ascribe perfection to past epochs is merely "the discoloration of his chagrin.
The Abbe de Saint-Pierre applied it to explain the origin of the Mohammedan religion, and the Abbe Du Bos in his Reflexions on Poetry and Painting maintained that climate helps to determine the epochs of art and science.
Communication is no longer by words, but by the instancing of whole biographies, epics, systems of philosophy, andepochs of history, in bulk.
As in allepochs of transition, the moral ties were loosened, and the taste for luxury and the unbridled love of money had taken possession of all classes.
At either of these epochs it was not the law, but their caprice alone, which put an end to the massacres.
A remarkable man, though without scruples, he had the qualities and the defects of most of those who played a part in these epochs of dissension.
The military forces assembled at different epochs by the kings of Syria enable us to estimate the population of their empire.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epochs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
