Types of four centuriescan be seen in a single group in any of the plazas.
The attendant opened one of these, that we might see the manuscript notes, three or four centuries old, from which they sung.
From this it results that at the time when the Law of the Twelve Tables was written, that is, four centuries and a half before the Christian era, there were already individuals in Rome who practised dental operations.
How much anxiety would not such poor sufferers be spared if physicians in general were acquainted with the counsel given by Hippocrates twenty-four centuries ago!
To General Jiminez Castellanos was left the unwelcome duty of holding nominal sway for a few weeks and then surrendering the sovereignty of four centuries to an alien power.
In studying the critics who hold that the Iliad is the growth of four centuries--say from the eleventh to the seventh century B.
Here, then, is another difficulty in the path of the theory that the Iliad is the work of four centuries.
Some of these stripes represent both geometric and floral patterns, either copied directly or derived with slight modifications from rugs woven three or four centuries ago in Asia Minor or Armenia.
But whatever the pattern, the different parts show the perfect balance so frequently seen in the antique pieces of three or four centuries ago.
It was a hopeless attempt, this rolling back the course of time by four centuries, but in such matters as dress and equipment something could be done.
A spectator might have imagined himself to have been carried back more than four centuries and a half, and to be looking on the hosts which had gathered to oppose the landing of the first Caesar.
The former party was by far the more numerous, but its adherents were those who had suffered most by Britain's four centuries of servitude; in the latter the virtues of freedom had been kept alive by a carefully cherished tradition.
It was curious to land and wander in the desolate woods, the battle-ground of four centuries past, picturing to oneself the romance of it all.
She will refuse to write the last chapters of that story of blood of which the Spanish wrote the first four centuries ago.
Four centuries back it was practically what it is now--one vast dense virgin forest, through the gloomy tangle of which even Indians could scarce find their way.
This shows that there has been no serious earthquake here for the greater part of four centuries.
Johnson's "Four Centuries of the Panama Canal" (Cassell and Co.
But, as a matter of fact, the Spooner Bill marks the end of the great battle of the routes which had lasted for four centuries.
He refused to have his portrait conventionalized into the customary smooth beauty of the Pharaoh god, and his face looks out at us across an interval of thirty-four centuries, a man amidst ranks of divine insipidities.
Armstrong pointed out to her the plutei upon which the great books rested, and to which they now remained chained as in the olden days, four centuries back, when they began their eternal vigil.
She was no longer in the present--she was a woman of Italy of four centuries back.
I proceed to prove from the surviving records of the first three or four centuries, during the long period that elapsed between the copying of the Vatican and Sinaitic MSS.
The Cuban People have existed for four centuries, the Cuban Nation in its consummate sense for less than a single generation.
No law-giver like Manu has appeared for twenty-four centuries.
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