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As it grew, the Western church absorbed and adapted all it could from the music of antiquity and the East.
Wise antiquity fabled Mercury carrying a rodde in his hand to relate newes from Heaven, and call backe the soules of the dead, but it hath beene the happinesse of our industrious age to see and admire Galilæus the new Embassadour of the Gods furnished with his perspective to unfold the nature of the Starres, and awaken the ghosts of the ancient Philosophers.
[Pg 52] It is obvious that in some remote antiquity their surface was in a fluid condition, but it was the fluidity of molten rock.
Preceding the forms of life which now exist, our observer would see animals and plants not identical with them, but like them; increasing their differences with their antiquity and, at the same time, becoming simpler and simpler; until, finally, the world of life would present nothing but that undifferentiated protoplasmic matter which, so far as our present knowledge goes, is the common foundation of all vital activity.
But when you look, not to the testimonial evidence-which, considering the relative insignificance of the antiquity of human records, might not be good for much in this case-but to the circumstantial evidence, then you find that this hypothesis is absolutely incompatible with such evidence as we have; which is of so plain and so simple a character that it is impossible in any way to escape from the conclusions which it forces upon us.
"All antiquity was the subject of my research.
He is in a land where an immemorial freedom, a freedom only less eternal than the rocks that guard it, puts to shame the boasted antiquity of kingly dynasties, which, by its side, seem but as innovations of yesterday.
I will quote another case, a case in which the return from the fantasies of lawyers to the common sense of antiquity has been distinctly to the profit, if not of the abstraction called the Crown, yet certainly to that of its personal holder.
The kingdom of the Molossians, referred to in the extract from Aristotle, is one of those states of antiquity of which we229 should be well pleased to hear more.
In antiquity it was the custom to shoot arrows or hurl javelins341 toward the gathering clouds in the hope of frightening them away.
Kiti, according to the Bible, was founded by a grandson of Japhet-such is the venerable antiquity which surrounded the first history of the country.
Every place to which the reputation of antiquity attaches itself, has its guide and dealer in curiosities, although he knows no more about them than the crows know about Sunday.
Knowing this, I was perfectly astonished at the rich treasures of antiquity that met my eye at every step, and I could only suppose the place to be the site of a former city, over the buried temples and palaces of which trees and shrubs had sprung up, and a few small houses for the present poor inhabitants been hastily erected.
I well believe it, for during the last few years all seem to have been bent upon removing the last remnants of antiquity left in Cyprus, as though anxious to make the work of destruction complete.
The extensive plains have been celebrated from the remotest antiquity for their gardens and cornfields.
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