Tacitus records only the sombre and monotonous annals of the early Empire; and the extant books of Livy contain the account of times and events from which he himself was separated by many generations.
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.
But their type has not changed by so much as an actual breed of horses might be changed in as many generations.
Does this lifted veil then show us a vista of three millennia, or only of as many generations?
Here and there a great event or a great name stands out prominently, but there are long stretches of time between, when not so much as the name of a single man is known in many generations.
So, again, in improving a breed, if care be taken for a length of time to exclude all inferior individuals, the breed will obviously tend to become truer, as it will not have been crossed during many generations by an inferior animal.
Therefore the long-continued inheritance of a part which has been removed duringmany generations is no real anomaly, for gemmules formerly derived from the part are multiplied and transmitted from generation to generation.
In one sense the proposition is little better than a truism; if any character has remained constant during many generations, it will be likely to continue so, if the conditions of life remain the same.
Here one sees hundreds of Dutch women in their costly headgear of gold and silver, heirlooms of many generations.
Curious, such a uniformity of promiscuous action among so many eggs for so many generations.
We have now left off this habit, yet we did it formerly for so many generations that we still do it a little; it still crosses our embryological existence like a faint memory or dream, for not easily is an inveterate habit broken.
This is one of the dilemmas which constantly arise to confront the advocates of the theory that the Iliad is a patchwork of many generations.
Everybody sees the need of the hypothesis, How was the medley of new songs by many generations of irresponsible hands codified into a plot which used to be reckoned fine?
The metal spoon or the knife which we use daily is a product of the work of many generations, including those who discovered the metal and the use of it, and the utility of the spoon.
It has risen to its present power among the nations of the world through the efforts of many generations of heroic people; and the firmament of its biography is illumined by stars of the first magnitude.
It has no architectural relic of the olden time in it, nor any remarkable modern building--nothing which would tell a careless eye that it had been the homestead of many generations of Lancashire men.
They have protected our ancestors for many generations.
Many, many generations have my fathers dwelt here; they say since the founding of the colony by the Emperor Hadrian.
It has been proved in many generations of our house.
These are laws which have developed through the experience of long ages, and have become established by the habit of many generations.
If any should be offended by these peculiarities in the manners and customs of the Greenlanders, they ought to reflect that their own forefathers, not so many generations ago, conducted themselves not so very differently.
I look into my family back and back, and I see how it has been made of many generations.
And sharply without warning, the influence, deep and invisible, of many generations of stolid folk in New England made itself felt in each of them.
Many generations after, when Darius wished to set up his own image in front of Sesosis, the high priest forbade him in the assembly of priests, and explained that Darius had not surpassed the deeds of Sesosis.
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