Thus did Wallenstein, at the age of fifty, terminate his active and extraordinary life.
What a new burden on the country, to support the state a royal leader was required to maintain, and which the prejudices of the age considered as inseparable from his presence with the army!
But circumstances opposed considerable obstacles to the execution of his designs; and even the greatest minds cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.
Successfully had he confronted the greatest general of the age, and had matched the strength of his tactics and the courage of his Swedes against the elite of the imperial army, the most experienced troops in Europe.
Still the severer antiquary may think, that, by thus intermingling fiction with truth, I am polluting the well of history with modern inventions, and impressing upon the rising generation false ideas of the age which I describe.
He looked anxiously to Athelstane, who had learned the accomplishments of the age, as if desiring that he should make some personal effort to recover the victory which was passing into the hands of the Templar and his associates.
Why should he wander afield at the ageof fiftyÐfive!
The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
To look at, one might think he was a successful stockbroker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age.
When I think of the age we live in, with its opportunities and possibilities, the mass of things to be done and enjoyed--why haven't we ten lives instead of one?
At the age of twenty-four she knew as much about music as most people do when they are thirty; and could play as well as nature allowed her to, which, as became daily more obvious, was a really generous allowance.
She wanted to make her niece talk, and so to understand why this rather dull, kindly, plausible politician had made so deep an impression on her, for surely at the age of twenty-four this was not natural.
Helen could hardly restrain herself from saying out loud what she thought of a man who brought up his daughter so that at the age of twenty-four she scarcely knew that men desired women and was terrified by a kiss.
At the age of forty a small living in the close vicinity of the town increased both his work and his income, and at the age of fifty he became precentor of the cathedral.
His theories were all beautiful, and the code of morals that he taught us certainly an improvement on the practices of the age.
He constantly declaimed against the luxury and corruption of the age, the partiality of parliaments, and the misery of party spirit.
Still this would not be as if she were the owner of a county, and a haughty title; and able to lead the first men of the age, by her mind, and face, and money.
His abilities, and even his integrity, are acknowledged by the partial writers of the age; and the merit must indeed have been conspicuous that could extort such a confession in favor of the vanquished enemy of Theodosius.
She got it from her grandmother, who died at the ageof a hundred and three, and sleeps in Coggeshall churchyard.
The Etruscan sages affirmed, that this prodigy betokened the mutation of the age, and a general revolution in the world.
To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
Others will have it to be in remembrance of the age of Saturn, when there was no distinction between master and slave, but all lived as brothers and as equals in a condition of equality.
Having thus continued three years a prisoner in Chersonesus, for want of exercise, and by indulging himself in eating and drinking, he fell into a disease, of which he died at the age of fifty-four.
On the cross I could read: "'Here lies Jacques Olivant, who died at the ageof fifty-one.
She lacked equilibrium, like all women who are spinsters at the age of fifty.
He was dead, now, at the age of eighty-two, honored by the homage and followed by the regrets of a whole people.
At the age of seven and twenty she had lost her father, her husband, and her newly born child, all in the space of a month.
These Ethiopian races were supposed to live to the age of 120 years, drinking milk, and eating boiled flesh.
They are an honorable exception to the rule which discharges all men from service at the age of forty-five.
As you know, at the age of forty-five we are mustered out of the army of industry, and have the residue of life for the pursuit of our own improvement or recreation.
Oral transmission of historic data, such as prevails among savages, such as prevailed among the Hellenes in the age of Homer, has been supplanted by the press.
What an occupation for two of the master spirits of the age!
Every sane woman who has arrived at the age of discretion is the guardian of her own honor.
He was oblivious of the fact that the American people--the master organizers of the age--are far more Irish than English.
His life was a long one, for he died at the age of eighty-four, after living in six reigns.
But they were wise in their generation; they knew that the book would please the base, slavish taste of the age, a taste which the author of the work had had no slight share in forming.
Whilst at Jesus, Gronwy distinguished himself as a Greek and Latin scholar, and gave such proofs of poetical talent in his native language, that he was looked upon by his countrymen of that Welsh college as the rising Bard of the age.
The buildings of the new city were executed by such artificers as the reign of Constantine could afford; but they were decorated by the hands of the most celebrated masters of the age of Pericles and Alexander.
At the age of seventeen, Crispus was invested with the title of Cæsar, and the administration of the Gallic provinces, where the inroads of the Germans gave him an early occasion of signalizing his military prowess.
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