The engravings which accompany this chapter relate to both these modes of diverting the public, and prove the invention of them to be more ancient than is generally supposed.
The preparations made for them at that time are mentioned without the least indication of novelty, which admits of the supposition that they were still more ancient.
Another manuscript, more ancient by at least half a century, in the same collection, represents [Illustration: 77.
While the Carthaginian oligarchy ruled, naval adventure was still encouraged; but the maritime era of the Mediterranean belongs to more ancient centuries.
However ancient then is the insect fauna the flora must be more ancient still.
The earliest-dated specimens of this new form, given to a more ancient symbol, occur on the pottery fragments found in Egypt by Prof.
It is also possible that the Guatemala images are the expression of the reversion to a more ancient form of philosophy or government when it had been realized that dual government led to dissensions and disintegration.
This conjecture is supported by a fact of more ancient date, recorded in the history of the Canaries by the abbe Viera.
If no more ancient stones of this species are found in Europe, it will seem probable that naturalization took place after the Aryan migrations.
The Egyptians of Pliny's time[2006] used the juice of the poppy as a medicament, but we have no proof that this plant was cultivated in Egypt in more ancient times.
If the use of coffee is more ancient in Abyssinia than elsewhere, that is no proof that its cultivation is very ancient.
Some fragments of granitic rocks, of enormous magnitude, and which from their dimensions, might be compared without exaggeration to houses, were torn out of a more ancient alluvion, and borne down for a quarter of a mile.
They have all such an amount of mutual resemblance as to point to a more ancient language, the Aryan, which was to them what Latin was to the six Romance languages.
But there was still a more ancient constitution, viz.
They seemed, however, to rest on more ancient ruins, the walls of which were six feet in thickness.
II-13] One point bearing on the antiquity of the Chiriqui relics is the wearing away by the weather of the incised sculptures, which appear to Mr Seemann to belong to a more ancient, less advanced civilization than those in low relief.
There are no means of determining with any degree of accuracy whether these buildings of Yaxhaa were the work of the Itzas or of a more ancient branch of the Maya people.
A German theologist thought he could attribute to him the oracle against Moab, cited in the Book of Isaiah as belonging to a more ancient prophet, and concluded that Jeroboam had subjugated the Moabites, but Munk rejects this opinion.
They are called Eski, or old, Baghdad; the Arabs, as usual, assigning a more ancient site to the modern city.
No remains whatever of more ancient building, and no relics of an earlier period were discovered during my residence at Mosul in the mound of the Prophet Jonah.
Christ; but the fortresses in which they stand are of a more ancient date.
A "moral" has thus been introduced into a set of more ancient tales.
There might be found among these tales traces of more ancient beliefs, myths and customs, just as it is possible to find similar traces among the folk-lore of the nations of the West.
The question arises, Whence came some of the incidents believed to be more ancient?
In the former such propaganda met with a more ancient layer of well-established literary tradition.
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