This is the divinely inculcated system of bondage which has enthralled India for twenty-five centuries.
For twenty-five centuries it has controlled the life of nearly one-sixth of the human race.
The mosque was erected by the general whose name it bears, and was one of the few that escaped, five centuries later, the fire by which the Saracens burned Cairo to prevent its falling into the hands of the invading Christians.
No sooner have they been fairly introduced to American and European civilization than they have taken a stride, of four or five centuries at a single leap, from feudalism in its most ultra form to constitutional government.
The whole country has been anchored for the last twenty-five centuries to a code of social laws and customs which are more unyielding than the laws of the Medes and Persians.
Buddhism arose as a reaction, twenty-five centuries ago, against the excesses of Brahmanism.
And now, for the third time in five centuries, I reach the summit of one of the hills that overlook the city.
Five centuries ago, the avenging hand of the Almighty drove me hither from the uttermost confines of Asia.
Five centuries ago, the avenging hand of the Almighty drove me hither from the depths of Asia.
The story of Hercules was known in the Island of Thasos, by the Phenician colony settled there, five centuries before he was known in Greece.
Rawlinson informs me that the delta of those rivers has advanced two miles in the last sixty years, and is supposed to have encroached about forty miles upon the Gulf of Persia in the course of the last twenty-five centuries.
Its surface is almost as sterile, after a period of five centuries, as if it had cooled down yesterday.
Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place, I could not perceive the slightest vestige of the city.
Five centuries later, when Brian Boru had brought all Ireland to acknowledge his kingship, he decreed that every family should take a surname from some distinguished ancestor, and so began the era of the O's and the Macs.
The House of Shang held the throne for some five centuries, beginning with Tang the Comnpleter in 1766, who traced his descent from the Yellow Emperor in mythological times.
Confucius in the brief moment of his victory illuminated the world indeed; but Confucius in the long years of his defeat has bowed the hearts of twenty-five centuries of the Black-haired People.
For twenty-five centuries it has been the "credo" of the profession, and in many universities it is still the formula with which men are admitted to the doctorate.
Through four or five centuries, by the hypothesis, every singer who could find an audience was treating as much as he knew of a vast body of ancient lays exactly as he pleased, adding here, lopping there, altering everywhere.
The real question is, would the modern poets be the men to keep up a tone some four or five centuries old, and to be true, if they were true, to the details of the heroic age?
He speaks of the horrid murderous uniformity by which the Western Empire moved through five centuries (for it commenced in murder 42 years B.
And at length, but not until the age of Cyrus, five centuries and a half before Christ, precisely one century later, the golden daylight of authentic history sprang above the horizon and was finally established.
We therefore prefer to follow the more slow but sure course of development pursued by physical science itself, as commenced nearly twenty-five centuries ago by the Greeks.
The first age is made up of the twenty-five centuries of obscure primeval history.
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