Even now, after so many centuries of vicissitude, the Persian presents numerous points of resemblance, perhaps more than we can find in Modern Greece itself, to the primitive and heroic Greek of Homer.
But then we must remember that it is junior, by many centuries, to the system of Homer: and that these evidences had become far less palpable, at the epoch when Herodotus lived, in the contemporary religion of Greece.
There remains, therefore, no element of vitality to revive the effete remains of a power that made Russia tremble during so many centuries, and that even menaced for a while the political existence of all Europe.
After all, the Tatars must necessarily have left some traces of their habits in the countries over which they ruled for so many centuries.
Surely, but places that have watched the passing of so many centuries, with all their joys and sorrows, must seem sad.
It was in this section of the castle that history was made throughout so many centuries.
This section was Royal Paris for many centuries, and it is to be regretted that the government of the city does not assume control and preserve what is left of the private hotels, at least preserve their exteriors.
The place above is sweet and pure, while the towers with the passing rains of many centuries, glisten white in the sunlight.
And suddenly he realised that, with that daughter of the sun who had inherited so many centuries of sovereign aristocracy, all his endeavours at conversion were vain.
The wretchedness had lasted for so many centuries, the sky was so blue, the siesta preferable to aught else during the hot hours!
So many centuries of history from the Apostle Peter downward, so much strength and genius, so many struggles and triumphs to be summed up in one being, the Elect, the Unique, the Superhuman!
This blending necessarily, in the course of many centuries, worked appreciable modifications in the physique and customs of both races, and gave to the world the Polynesian people as we know them to-day.
With the advantage of many centuries of contact with neighbouring peoples, they had necessarily learned much of the art of war, which had been quite unknown to the islanders in their isolation.
And neither the Mahabharata nor the Ramayana was composed in a day; but in many centuries;--and it is quite likely that on them too Brahmanical hands have been tactfully at work.
As thus: A given race flowered and passed; it had so many centuries of history before its flowering; it died, and left something behind.
Zeus sighs in heaven, and his sigh is a doleful thunder prophetic of the gloom that is to overspread all the western skies for many centuries to come.
This the dingy old silver reliquary, in which they had been kept for so many centuries, did not do.
Patterns are commonly, like men, the result ofmany centuries of long descent from ancestors of remote antiquity.
In Egypt, the change from the first period of actual imitation of nature was succeeded by many centuries of the very slowest progress.
The Varangian Guards were, probably, answerable for this, by their intercourse between Greece and their native land, which lasted so many centuries.
Presumably this was so, else some misadventure would have been sure to put an end to her in the course of so many centuries.
The Greece which we call ancient entered late into history, when civilization had already a long past behind it, a past of many centuries.
Finally it is from these tombs of private individuals that the best works of Egyptian artists have been obtained, the works in which they approached most nearly to the ideal which they pursued for so many centuries.
The worship of the hawk, the vulture, and the ibis, had, then, preceded by many centuries that of the gods who correspond to the personages of the Hellenic pantheon.
Even then the art of Egypt could defend, and even perpetuate itself, by the power of custom and of a tradition which had been handed down through so many centuries, but the day was past when it could provoke imitation.
For a moment it seemed as if the Reformation might have been anticipated by many centuries--that Christian Europe might have been spared the abominable papal disgraces awaiting it.
A tower, the foundations of which are slowly yielding, may incline more and more for many centuries, but the day must come in which it will fall at last.
The ideas that had served her for so many centuries as a guide had rather obstructed than facilitated her way.
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