They are to be looked upon less as the vital things in themselves, than as the record of the events of the time and as the forerunners of the subsequent events that may be potential in them.
As early as the seventeenth century books were produced which may be regarded as the forerunnersof this sort of modern composition in the ancient language.
In ancient times, eclipses were, and among unenlightened people they still are, superstitiously regarded asforerunners of evil fortune, a sentiment of which occasional use is made in literature.
They were the forerunners of Boerne and Heine, one being an unknown physician, the other writing anonymously (Lefrank).
The first and second are only forerunners of the mighty one.
The upper Eocene has yielded many birds, most of which are at least close forerunners of recent genera, the differentiation into the leading orders and families being already well marked, e.
These five reprinted, under the title of Walton's Lives, were not only charming in themselves, but the forerunners of a whole class of English literature.
Illustration: Flashes of lightning, the dazzling forerunners of a coming storm, every now and then illumined the horizon.
Flashes of lightning, the dazzling forerunners of a coming storm, every now and then illumined the horizon.
The road winds up among them, and I am glad to leave the fiery glow of the plains behind; certainly the sun is still burning, for the air is clear and the first forerunners of the cloud masses of the south-west monsoon have not yet appeared.
Those are the forerunners of the storm, which stirs up the salt particles," I said.
The first of this group, the pathbreaker of the movement, was Benjamin Whichcote, though it must not be forgotten that he had noble forerunners in John Hales, William Chillingworth, and Jeremy Taylor.
Are such thoughts not the forerunners of melancholy?
To-day when an inventor seeks to imitate a natural product he does so with a power of analysis, a wealth of new materials, such as his forerunners could not have imagined.
Since Caesar was down, or nearly so, might not the Pope realise the ancient ambition of his forerunners and become both emperor and pontiff, the sovereign, universal divinity on earth?
Every day he made a study in the precincts of Paris, without any idea that he would count in these times among the forerunners of modern art.
His forerunners are not the Dutchmen of the good periods, Terborg and Metsu, but the contemporaries of Van der Werff.
There, in that temple of fame, he lies buried near Sir Joshua Reynolds, the great ancestor of English painting, and he remains a phenomenon without forerunners and without descendants.
He thinks more of producing pictures which may equal those of his forerunners in their merits than of rendering the impression of nature which he has himself received.
The form of Jean Francois Millet rises so powerfully, so imperiously, and so suddenly that one might almost imagine him to have come from Ibsen's third kingdom; for he is without forerunners in art.
This does not imply, however, that the Jews were the forerunnersor even the sponsors of the modern Press.
The Jews' stores became bazaars, forerunners of our modern department stores, and the old English custom of one store for one line of goods was broken up.
In the Greek period the Chronicler and certain of the psalmists, with their intense devotion to the temple and its services to the practical exclusion of all other interests, were the forerunners of the later Pharisees.
They were also the forerunners of the party of the Pharisees, which was one of the products of the Maccabean struggle.
Like their forerunners in the migratory movement of European races, the present immigrants respond quickly to the American higher standards of living, and in many cases much more quickly than some of the older groups responded.
Upon this a general stir ensued; and fanaticism, such as I never thought could be excited in the breasts of men, broke out in the most angry expressions, which were only the forerunners of the violence that soon after ensued.
Experience had taught him that these sorts of attacks were generally the forerunners of some heavy fine, and he already put himself in a posture of defence to resist it.
He had forerunners and many imitators, yet he stands alone, and were his pencil lost, a blank would be felt in the realm of art.
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