But though all the maritime Somali country abounds intraditions of the Furs or ancient Persians, none of the buildings near Berberah justify our assigning to them, in a country of monsoon rain and high winds, an antiquity of 1300 years.
The Portuguese, on their arrival in Ceylon in the sixteenth century, found the natives fully believing in the traditionsof its former extent, and its partial submersion.
We were the Sheep Eaters who have passed away, but on those walls are the paint rocks, where our traditions are written on their face, chiseled with obsidian arrow heads.
That last argument alone, of their success, is conclusive against that; but may they not have been legends which gradually assumed this form out of floating traditions and previous popular and national prepossessions?
Christian and pagan traditions came into close contact, and contended for the empire of the newly liberated intellect.
Having co-ordinated the Christian and Pagan traditions in its work of beauty, painting could advance no farther.
The Roman, Byzantine, Saracenic, Lombard, and German traditions were blended in their architecture, as the presiding genius of each place determined.
The painters who carried on the greattraditions were Venetian.
During this struggle the arts, true to their own principles, eliminated from both traditions the more strictly human elements, and expressed them in beautiful form to the imagination and the senses.
Local traditions and contemporary rumours, again, give colour to what Vasari relates about his infidelity; while the criminal records of Florence prove that he was not over-scrupulous to keep his hands from violence.
Giunta the Pisan, Gaddo Gaddi, and Cimabue, are supposed to have worked there, painfully continuing or feebly struggling to throw off the decadent traditions of a dying art.
Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man--with language and traditions apart from the rest of the Service, and yet at heart unchangingly of the Service.
Commander, "your observation is strictly in accord with thetraditions of the Service.
He collected from many sources the myths and traditions connected with the origin of ancient customs and ceremonies, or attaching to the towns and tribes of Italy, famous in early times.
He suggests no thought either of the popular liberty realised in the best days of the Roman commonwealth, or of the sagacity and steadfast traditions of the Roman Senate.
He seems to regard such tales as those here introduced as part of the religious traditions of the human race, and as a link which connects man with the gods.
To Virgil, on the other hand, the gods of mythology appear to have a real existence, as manifestations of the divine energy, revealed in the religious traditions which connect the actual world of experience with a supernatural origin.
The latter listened eagerly to the oldtraditions which the player narrated of the earlier times.
Both men continued to cherish their old notions of things, and to hold to the traditions of the party to which each was attached.
He had in perfect good faith tried his best to live up to the national traditions of friendship and to keep burning the smouldering fire of his own humble ideal of love.
True to the traditions of his family, the Count was a musician and one of the best connoisseurs and players of Haydn's quartets, in which he was accustomed to play the second violin.
It is confidently submitted, therefore, that all the traditions derived from Czerny, Dr.
The comparisons are chiefly gathered from scenes and usages depicted in the narratives of Homer and the Bible, still singularly reflected in the habits and traditions of the primitive and insular people of Sardinia.
An inquiry into suchtraditions would be a waste of time, and is foreign to a work of this kind.
The triumphs of the Romans figure in history; but the traditions of the Sardes do justice to the heroic and patriarchal chiefs who fought in defence of their country.
I afterwards heard two traditionsrespecting the Chapel of the Greeks.
Traces and traditions of this aboriginal race are found in all parts of the world, and in sacred as well as profane history.
But the traditions of Polypheme and his Cyclops represent them as advanced beyond this first rude stage of society, though they still adhered to their ancestral caves.
Why the modern Japanese artists want to divorce themselves from the traditions of their forefathers seems incomprehensible.
Considering the relative size of the Netherlands, they have a remarkably large number of artists, but scarcely of sufficient bigness of caliber and independence of character to live up to the traditions of this people.
He would be likely to say, if he were loyal to the traditions of his school, that mental imagery is the counterpart of sense-perception, and is thus the representative of the data with which empirical logic is concerned.
The traditions of the English drama had favored the juxtaposition of the serious and comic: but it was reserved for Shakespeare to make each a part of the other; to interpenetrate tragedy with comedy, and comedy with tragic earnestness.
The extraordinary success of this book can be accounted for only by the curious taste of the time, which still reflected the more unworthy traditions of the Addisonian era.
Tappan left the University, but his influence remained in the work of his students and the scholarly traditions he established.
Unhampered by the formalism and traditions of the Eastern universities of that time, these men found here an opportunity for the establishment of the progressive methods of the better European universities.
Its traditions have perhaps changed somewhat through a too great, though perhaps inevitable instructorial complexion and the abandonment of its original emphasis on literature and the arts.
The loyalty of Michigan's alumni body may arise in some part from the very fact that the education given has not been entirely free, as well as through a justifiable pride in the prestige and academic traditions which the years have brought.
The traditions of centuries were still too strong and the institution too weak.
The loan is five dollars, but by all the traditions the borrower must return six on pay day.
In this new series Tom Reade and Harry Hazelton prove worthy of all the traditions of Dick & Co.
With precedents, with traditionssuch as other Professors enjoy, you could not furnish him.
But I have a second safeguard, more to be trusted: that here in Cambridge, with all hertraditions of austere scholarship, anyone who indulges in loose distinct talk will be quickly recalled to his tether.
Bulstrode gave little dinners on the terrace; little suppers after the theatre, when rooms and garden were lighted with fairy lanterns, and his chef outdid his traditions to please his American master.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traditions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
