Writing of course had been practiced from a much earlier period, but only in formal instruments, mainly upon stone.
The mythological signification of these characters cannot be older than the Grecian mythology; but the chemical may be traced to a much earlier period.
It can nevertheless be proved that they were known to our glass-blowers at a much earlier period.
It can be proved also that older nations gave other names to these heavenly bodies at much earlier periods.
But no one has ever been able to discover Camden's authority, and the change was, probably, of a much earlier date.
For a much earlier statute, in the 11th of Edward III.
It is said, indeed, at a much earlier time, that le ley de la terre est fait en parlement par le roi, et les seigneurs espirituels et temporels, et tout la communaute du royaume.
Many petitions likewise were referred to it from parliament, especially where they were left unanswered by reason of a dissolution.
Disseisin, or forcible dispossession of freeholds, makes one of the most considerable articles in our law-books.
Colonel Rawlinson entertains, I believe, a different opinion, and would attribute them to a much earlier period.
Opaque colored glass was, however, manufactured at a much earlier period, and some exists of the fifteenth century B.
Much earlier, in 1619, they had founded Batavia in Java, which they made the centre of their East Indian possessions, as it still remains.
When the date of the wearer of the garment is ascertained, the dress cannot be of a later period, but it may have belonged to a much earlier one.
There is nothing of Assyrian here, but it reminds one of Egyptian and Greek art, and at once suggests Count Roger's Greek slaves at the Sicilian looms, but the design is probably of a much earlier date, and the subject is puzzling.
But when we examine this splendid relic we cannot doubt that it is of a much earlier time, as there is nothing Gothic to be found in it.
Seasonable from August to October; but may be had, forced, much earlier.
Seasonable in August, September, and October; but may be had, forced, much earlier.
Seasonable in August, September, and October; but maybe had, forced, much earlier.
So far as this single example goes, it rather tends to connect the remarkable deposit with a much earlier period.
Much ingenuity was expended on the development of a history of the gods, the groundwork of which had been laid in much earlier times.
Although the Joseph whence it takes its name is the celebrated Saladin, it is related that he merely repaired it, and it is not doubted to be of a much earlier period.
But this doorway is flat-headed and has lost all mediaeval character, while the cloister itself is a graceful design with columns and trefoil arches, which in other lands one would attribute to a much earlier date.
The official Ghetto begins with the opening of the sixteenth century, whereas the best parodies belong to a much earlier date, the fourteenth century.
I will allude only to one other parallel, which carries us to a much earlier period.
We must interrupt this account of the Bachur to record a much earlier instance of the awkward situation in which a pious Jewish traveller might find himself because of the Sabbath regulations.
Anyone dating Maldon solely by "Lichtenheld's Test" would assuredly place it much earlier than 991.
To produce an instance in which the two terms are both used by the same translator is very little use, when what has to be proved is that the one term had already, at a much earlier period, entirely ousted the other.
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