Big fella shark-fish, that fella leg stop 'm along him," the
ancient grinned, exposing a horrible aperture of toothlessness for a mouth.
copy of the
ancient Jewish law, which is said to be the oldest document on earth.
the
ancients met by recognizing a divinity which subjected the nations to the will of a chosen man, and guided the will of that chosen man so as to accomplish ends that were predestined.
It is a common belief that the more
ancient a form is, by so much the more it tends to connect by some of its characters groups now widely separated from each other.
In vain, I searched for some sign of
ancient commerce that, if history is to be believed, must have dotted the bosom of the Channel with white sails and blackened the heavens with the smoke of countless funnels, but as far as eye could reach the tossing waters of the Channel were empty and deserted.
The place breathed the very atmosphere of decay and death, and the imbecile
ancient, curing in the smoke the token of death, was himself palsiedly shaking into the disintegration of the grave.
By day, one could admire the variety of its edifices, all sculptured in stone or wood, and already presenting complete specimens of the different domestic architectures of the Middle Ages, running back from the fifteenth to the eleventh century, from the casement which had begun to dethrone the arch, to the Roman semicircle, which had been supplanted by the ogive, and which still occupies, below it, the first story of that
ancient house de la Tour Roland, at the corner of the Place upon the Seine, on the side of the street with the Tannerie.
Of the
ancient population there was not a trace left.
Not very different from Descartes in his relation to
ancient philosophy is his successor Spinoza, who lived in the following generation.
It was first communicated to the public in that curious record of
ancient literature, which has been accumulated by the combined exertions of Sir Egerton Brydges.
Certainly," said I, "this sea is quoted as one of the worst, and in the time of the
ancients, if I am not mistaken, its reputation was detestable.
In
ancient times the power of the kings extended to everything whatsoever, both civil, domestic, and foreign; but in after-times they relinquished some of their privileges, and others the people assumed, so that, in some states, they left their kings only the right of presiding over the sacrifices; and even those whom it were worth while to call by that name had only the right of being commander-in-chief in their foreign wars.
