Within the oldest temples of Egypt are still to be observed sacred apartments which contain the "Holy of Holies," and to which, in past ages, none might gain access but priests and priestesses of the highest order.
Much light has been thrown upon these speculations by the Kosmogonies which have come down to us from the Phoenicians, Babylonians, and other peoples of past ages.
It can not be kept closed under lock and key, as the Christian Bible has been in past ages.
I have stated that the shocking cruelties and barbarities practiced by Christians upon each other in past ages, find a warrant in the Bible.
The people are becoming too Enlightened to tolerate them much longer; they are becoming tired of being fed on the stale food of past ages; they have been kept in a state of spiritual stagnation long enough.
He, John Hodder, had held fast to the essential efficacy of the word of God as propounded in past ages by the Fathers.
They had not failed in past ages, when the world had fallen into hopelessness, indifference, and darkness.
And the very fact that his presentation of religion had left many indifferent or dissatisfied was proof-positive that he had dwelt upon non-essentials, laid emphasis upon the mistaken interpretations of past ages.
Analogies which are but fancy to us, were realities to these men of past ages.
The geologist reckons not by days or by years; the whole six thousand years, which were until lately looked on as the sum of the world's age, are to him but as a unit of measurement in the long succession of past ages.
St. Damasus was unwilling to destroy so touching a memorial of past ages.
You cannot stand on the Aventine or the Palatine without grave thoughts, but standing on the spot brings me very little nearer the image of past ages.
At your feet eloquent ruins of past ages, overhead a sky of unequalled beauty, and everywhere wonders, with a climate which restores life to the dying.
The marine monster who lived in this shell has been replaced by a miserable spider; a life full of littleness has succeeded the life of grandeur of past ages.
If until the present the Jew has not considered himself a Pole, the fault has not been with him nor with Poland herself, but with the barbarity of past ages, to the shadows of a prolonged epoch of darkness.
Long afflicted with the same evils as yourselves, we sought for their source, and found them all derived from violence and injustice, erected into law by the inexperience of past ages, and maintained by the prejudices of the present.
Some relate to me the events of past ages, while others reveal to me the secrets of Nature.
They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
If the facts which I have stated do not prove the miraculous agency of the Deity in past ages, I know not how it can be proved.
Often, indeed, in past ages, have men set up their hypotheses as oracles in the temple of nature, to be consulted rather than the Bible.
He searched for motives; it had required a struggle for him to abandon things sacerdotal, since the Church alone had treasured objects of art--the lost forms of past ages.
These persons would assign the same office to the records of past ages, as they would to the stern lights of a vessel, which serve only to throw a light over the path which has been passed, and not over that which lies before us.
Among the various events recorded in the history of past ages, there are few more interesting and important than the discovery of the western world.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past ages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
