But let Heaven order matters as it pleases; for if I compass my designs, I shall be so much the more honoured by how much the dangers I have exposed myself to are greater than those the knights-errant of former ages underwent.
But we are confused in our efforts at identification; for another cavern bore this name in former ages, which was destroyed by the explosion of the combustible materials with which Narses filled it in undermining the citadel.
They would mend old irons in those Aeolian isles of Lipari, in former ages, and have been often seen and heard.
Any one who has studied the Irish character in our days--a character which was the same in former ages--will easily see something of that great and happy cause.
Would it not have been better for mankind to have stood by the time-honored traditions of former ages, independently of the strong and convincing claims which Catholicity offers to all?
After unprecedented calamities of former ages, we find millions of men reduced by other men, calling themselves Christians, to a condition of pagan helots, deprived of all rights and treated more barbarously than slaves.
No doubt the hollow which this lake fills had been scooped out in former agesby a branch of the Aletsch glacier; but long ago the blue ice gave place to blue water.
In thus advancing the glacier merely takes up ground which belonged to it in former ages, for the rounded rocks which rise out of the adjacent meadow show that it once passed over them.
The covenant which he made with Abraham, was to include men in the later as well as former ages.
On account of the same reasons for which the Church of God in former agesattended to Covenanting, we should attend to it; but we should perform it because of their example besides.
But the example of God in former ages, also extends to all succeeding times.
Now, though Urnes have been often discovered in former Ages, many think it strange there should be many still found, yet assuredly there may be great Numbers still concealed.
This art was, in doubt, practised by the jugglers in former ages; and a singular specimen of it, delineated on the last mentioned Bodleian MS.
Whoever claims that noble title must not forget, whether he examines the highest achievements of mankind in our own age, or the miserable failures of former ages, what man is, and in whose image and after whose likeness man was made.
A few passages from the Buddhist writings of Nepal and Ceylon will best show that the horror nihili was not felt by the metaphysicians of former ages in the same degree as it is felt by ourselves.
The brutal ferocity of former ages is now lost, and the general mind is humanized.
He was driven back by the storms, which on these seas were thought always to continue, and which the learned of former ages, says Osorius, thought impassable.
I here found, not only the dresses once in fashion, but also the gestures which have been practised in former ages; for every suit of clothes retained the manner and behaviour to which it had been accustomed.
Modern literature, therefore, is overrun with trees, and diversified with hill and valley, far beyond the bleak writings of former ages.
There were many other reasoners who combated on the events of former ages with as much zeal and anger as they could have done on the laws which concerned their own property.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "former ages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
