We talked of past times; and as we reached the door of Drury Lane, he recited some wild but beautiful verses of Moore's.
A subsequent visit to the region of extinct volcanoes in Auvergne, in the South of France, convinced him that the aqueous theory was at least partially wrong, and that fire had been an active agent in the rock-formations of past times.
Perhaps the most important of his generalizations is that by which he has given us the clue to the limitation of the different epochs in past times by connecting them with the great revolutions in the world's history.
Conceive an ocean wave that should roll up for twenty thousand feet, and be petrified at its greatest height: the mountains are but the gigantic waves raised on the surface of the land by the geological tempests of past times.
Our precursors, in past times, were much more attentive to clearing routes than ourselves.
But if any sacrifice be made for foreign nations and countries, it surely should be made for Africa, on whose unhappy children we as a nation, in past times, have inflicted such enormous wrongs.
But Morocco is the country in North Africa which has the most constant relations with Timbuctoo; so much so, that in past times, the Emperors pretended to exercise sovereignty over this mysterious city of the banks of the Niger.
True interpretations of all the natural processes, organic and inorganic, that have gone on in past times, habitually trace them to causes still in action.
In past times, the conception of an ordinary plant or animal which prevailed, not throughout the world at large only but among the most instructed, was that it is a single continuous entity.
In past times, the mourners cut themselves dreadfully, and covered themselves with blood from head to feet.
Aristotle, Newton, and Shakspeare are the greatest the world has produced in past times.
He was, in all his ways and conversation, a great curiosity, both individually and as a representative of past times.
There are two errors into which we easily slip when thinking of past times.
This towards him; while, with respect to other living men, nay even to the mighty spirits of past times, there may be associated with such weakness a want of modesty and humility.
We used to make a kind of play of it, which we called lectures on fashionable manners: it was a pleasant amusement to me, a sort of keeping up the memory of past times.
In past times, before man began to make observations on the geographical distribution of birds and butterflies, or even before the appearance of man in Northern Europe, they may have lived all over the British Islands.
To geographers, a survey of some of the more important changes in the distribution of land and water in past times--based upon the composition of our fauna--will be interesting.
These elements correspond to migrations which can be proved to have arrived in this country at different periods in past times.
Emily, as she looked upon the ocean, thought of France and of past times, and she wished, Oh!
As she drew near the chateau, these melancholy memorials of past times multiplied.
There are persons of memorable interest in past times, of whom all that we know is embodied in a funeral sermon.
One great class of criminals I am aware of in past times as having specially tormented myself--the class who have left secrets, riddles, behind them.
And, if it is really right that the prisoner, when obviously guilty, should be aided in evading his probable conviction, then certainly in past times he had less than justice.
I thought a little, and said: "You were speaking just now of households: that sounded to me a little like the customs of past times; I should have thought you would have lived more in public.
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