| 单词 | ancients |
| 例句 | Until Columbus demonstrated that classical geography was hopelessly misconceived, the assumption was that the arguments of the ancients needed to be interpreted, not challenged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It’s easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z By 1700 this sense of continuity had been destroyed: the moderns knew that they were different from the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The ancients knew that the world is very old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In science this began to change only in the course of the debate on the ancients and moderns at the end of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The ancients didn’t have the equipment to deal with the infinite, but modern mathematicians have learned to handle it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dionysius didn’t have a zero, so he started the calendar with year 1, just as the ancients before him had started theirs. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was a tradition among the ancients that things were very cheap in Hell. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Instead, they turned to the ancients like Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They talked about food words in those thousand-year-old languages and licked their lips over the ancients’ words for “oranges” and “deep-fried.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Tassoni is well aware of all sorts of things that the ancients did not have: falconry, for example, or silk, or perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Someone had once tried to persuade him that the ancients did not understand the winds in the Mediterranean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He was actually trying to make amends for his unfair characterization of Adams in the Priestley letter as one of the “ancients.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As these medieval thinkers imported the philosophy and science of the ancients, they inherited the ancient prejudices: a fear of the infinite and a horror of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sprat was even blunter: getting rid of the tyranny of the ancients simply involved throwing out what he called ‘the rubbish’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “It’s the meanwhile frightens me, sir. The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound knowledge of man.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He thinks certain modern technologies—the clock, the compass, gunpowder, the telescope—represent a real advance over anything achieved by the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was because Ultima was a curandera, a woman who knew the herbs and remedies of the ancients, a miracle-worker who could heal the sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z However, this was not at all obvious to the ancients. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z From our modern perspective, it is easy to dismiss the ancients’ qualms about the utility of science. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Not for nothing was Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, regarded by the ancients as the “mother of the muses.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He believes that science is going to transform the world and that the moderns have outstripped the ancients in every possible respect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would be a mistake, however, to idealise the lives of these ancients. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “There will be no more study of philosophy or the ancients,” she said firmly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z How had the ancients come up with such cockeyed fancies? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A warning look from her mother checked any further remarks, and the whole family ate in heroic silence, till Mr. March mildly observed, “salad was one of the favorite dishes of the ancients, and Evelyn...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z None of the ancients seemed quite able to agree that any of the others were funny, however. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The ancients did refer to the ‘laws’ of nature when they wanted to say that nature is regular and predictable, but they never identified any particular scientific principle as a law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In this way, matter’s division ceased, and, as the ancients professed, substance was returned to its originary unity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “And it’s a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The ancients longed for logos in its purest form—the clear light of analytic philosophy— to be the only effective component of an argument. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It has been claimed that Tassoni expresses a sense of liberation from the schoolroom of antiquity, but his claim is merely that the moderns must find a place in the schoolroom alongside the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The ancients knew a few of these equation-laws, like the law of the lever, but with the beginning of the scientific revolution these equation-laws sprang up everywhere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The classics were the books supposedly written by Confucius and the ancients, about the correct way to live. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, not only in astronomy but in other realms of inquiry, notably mechanical technology and medicine, the ancients seem almost perverse in their aversion to stumbling on the truth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The early selenographers had so many features to name that they found themselves honouring ancients as well as moderns, opponents as well as allies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All these late-medieval discussions took place within the context of a geographical knowledge which corresponded to that of the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Looking back over the first fifty years of research on the Antikythera Mechanism, one is struck by the reluctance of modern investigators to credit the ancients with technological skill.” Sunday Reading: The Ancient World 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Koons and the ancients appease their respective gods for favorable treatment in this world. When Jeff Koons painted Michel Jackson white 2013-06-10T16:18:00Z Noted in the writings of Asclepius, among others of the ancients. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s not only the ancients who looked at athletes and saw classical ideals and paragons of beauty. Perspective | Why Roger Federer is the most graceful athlete of our time 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The ancients “really did study the person and how people act, and some of it is quite good.” The Lindy Way of Living 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The ancients started with matter, not the void; perhaps nothingness is stranger than being. ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-03T22:40:08Z Meanwhile, rituals, with their symbolic acting-out of life's ordeals, become the ancients' answer to sessions on the couch. Artist of the week: Mathilde Rosier 2011-08-18T14:20:07Z The concept of individual freedom, from the ancients to the American founders and beyond, is essentially negative: At its core is the idea of not being a slave. Maggie Nelson Exposes Freedom’s Paradoxes 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Even the ancients, who so often experienced the death of their children, called it “the unbearable grief.” Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z She believes the 26 poses contain a “sacred geometry” that has been handed down from “the ancients”. 'He said he could do what he wanted': the scandal that rocked Bikram yoga 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The ancients believed gold was shards of the sun that had fallen to earth, and used it in sculpture. TV highlights 25/07/2012 2012-07-24T19:30:01Z You can optimize everything, or you can do what the ancients did and say, “Good enough.” The United States of Metrics 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Taleb is deeply and depressingly nostalgic for the virtues of the ancients, with their stoicism and tolerance for suffering. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z If your interest is Ancient Rome, you should definitely bring with you “SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,” by the British historian Mary Beard, whose sparkling prose makes the ancients our contemporaries. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z It's further confirmation of my belief that the wisdom of the ancients is most generally to be ignored. The Kama Sutra's lessons for modern lovers 2011-02-14T11:31:31Z Instead of the world wrought by imitating the ancients, the new Romantic theories envisioned the union of nature and the mind as the ideal creative process. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Or are they following the tradition by which Western moderns reëmbraced the ancients? An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In the antiquity of this timeless place, I’m sure it’s only the distant roll of thunder, but I swear I hear the voices of ancients whispering around rock shelters in the gathering dusk. Kentucky's Red River Gorge 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z "The ancients farmed all sorts of grains, herbs and vegetables," MacRae said. Archeologists just uncovered food stalls in Pompeii. I recreated a stew inspired by their findings 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z One of the great motifs of the ancients was that the gods were just as, uh, human, as the rest of us. Video Game Review | God of War III: In ?God of War III? Spartan Soldier Battles Zeus 2010-03-29T22:24:00Z Kongzi, a schoolteacher, is proud to be a 76th-generation descendant of Confucius, and all it takes is a beer to persuade him to declaim the poems of the ancients. Books of The Times: ‘The Dark Road,’ a Novel by Ma Jian 2013-06-11T19:33:26Z In fact, the wise shun all the cities once inhabited by “the ancients” because the ruins bring on ague and fever. Review | A look at the post-apocalyptic world envisioned in the novel ‘After London’ 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z And while “Mortal Engines” offers plenty to snicker at, the same might be said of the ancients’ movie formulas. ‘Mortal Engines’ Review: London Becomes a Death Star on Wheels 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But as a musicologist – that's someone who studies the history of music – I've seen many artifacts and much evidence that can help us understand how and why the ancients played music. Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z But poke wouldn’t exist without the islands’ meld of cultures and reverence for the ocean, passed down by the ancients. Home to Hawaii in Search of Poke 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z He started his career at the time Michelangelo was unveiling David, but gave the majestic human body portrayed in stone by the ancients and rediscovered by Italians his own rollicking, saucy finesse in paint. Jan Gossaert's Renaissance ? review 2011-03-04T10:52:10Z Or when they merely became decrepit, sagging ancients of 17 or so. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea – review 2013-02-07T08:00:01Z The ancients believed that the economy was situated in the household, which was the site of production, and in the marketplace, where households traded their surplus. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The body language echoes the brutality of the act: The ancients dance with pigeon-toed feet, twisted limbs and bent-over postures. ‘Rite of Spring’: Ode to the human savage, still untamed 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The word hero has long since lost the ancients’ sense of ambiguity, but the art retains it. Art Review: Those Greek Heroes, Sometimes Behaving Badly 2010-10-21T20:45:00Z As the Winter Solstice approached and daylight died away, the ancients thought that the barrier between the living and the dead became slender, so supernatural tales abounded. Why do we love a festive ghost tale? 2013-12-23T16:56:48Z In his speeches, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, often quotes from Chinese ancients like Confucius alongside other more recent political figures like Mao Zedong. For Confucius and His Descendants, a Cultural Comeback 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z But it’s impossible to reflect on the London theater in 2015 without giving contemporary pride of place to the ancients. Review: A Year of Greek Revivals on the London Stage 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Thornton Wilder’s style, so thoroughly absorbed by the 20th century stage that it can now seem quaint, liberated our theatrical vocabulary to be as modern as the ancients’. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Perhaps the ancients believed that this was the moment when the souls of the dead were transported to the afterlife, via that ray of light. Europe’s dead still speak to the living 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z In “The Odes,” Horace wrote that wines from the Sabine grape, apparently the ancients’ Yellowtail, are “humbly cheap.” Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Surely, when the ancients opened the barrows at midwinter it was not only to pray for the growth of the sun. Winter solstice art: the dark night rises 2012-12-21T14:18:28Z Fermentation, says Park, creates an essential flavor in the Korean repertoire, a technique that made it possible for the ancients to eat well even as they traveled through the country’s famously mountainous terrain. An ambitious new New York restaurant proves Korean fine dining is ready for its close-up 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Digging for the genesis and workings of morality in humans, he turns in this adventurous book to tribal life and animal behaviour, as well as the ancients and American politics. Best psychology books of 2012 2012-11-30T13:00:01Z Illustration: Clifford Harper/Agraphia.co.uk for the Guardian What Troy was for the ancients, the World Trade Centre attacks and subsequent wars seem destined to become for our own time. The Blind Man's Garden by Nadeem Aslam – review 2013-01-31T07:01:01Z I now understand what the ancients used to refer to as “keening” with grief. My cat died and I feel blinded 2013-04-11T00:00:00Z Perhaps the quality Mr. Pärt most shares with those ancients is imperturbability, in music that hovers above the text in its own world of sound and contemplation. Review: The Tallis Scholars, Hovering in a Meditative Sphere 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Many recent episodes have focused on happiness lessons from the ancients, hitting up Aristotle, the Buddha and Confucius and extrapolating lessons about how to live a fulfilled life in the modern age. 7 Podcasts to Soothe Your Back-to-Normal Anxiety 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Through the sharing of new ideas the ancients identified the atom, measured the circumference of the earth, grasped the environmental benefits of vegetarianism. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Calculating the rightful measure of respect for the dead is as sacred for us as it was for the ancients — around whom the mysteries of death were surely as, if not more, spiritually complex. Perspective | John Lewis’s death was loss for us all. But the powerful Capitol service for him was a blessing. 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Hester explains that the food of the ancients never gets old. ‘Mortal Engines’ Review: London Becomes a Death Star on Wheels 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z This disparity will lead to problems, of course, as dramatists from the ancients onward have taken pains to warn us. Revival of 'The Baker's Wife' wafts freshly baked aromas at Actors Co-op 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Survivors from each category — "boys," "girls," ancients over 30 and groups — then hole up, supposedly, in individual judges' homes for more instruction, and more are eliminated. 'The X Factor' looks tantalizingly familiar 2011-09-20T17:27:03Z Long before digital renderings, CNC milling, and 3-D printers revolutionized the world of architecture, the ancients used analog methods to produce some of history’s most esteemed architectural feats. NOVA PBS Offers A Unique Look At The World's Most Extraordinary Architectural Wonders 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Milch was interested in history as a narrative infrastructure, something to enclose and support tales that could have been enacted by ancients in robes and masks. "Deadwood" rides again 2010-12-12T00:01:00Z The mockumentary, about a group of bloodsucking ancients navigating modern life in Wellington, New Zealand, was driven more by character than plot, much like a hangout sitcom. Review: In ‘Shadows,’ on FX, Laid-Back Vampires Return for Another Bite 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z "Vegetables connect us to the earth, to that Mother Earth of whom the ancients spoke." Et cetera: non-fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T07:00:03Z With a few notable exceptions, the ancients and medieval Europeans saw dreams as divine messages; spaces in which you might learn about the destiny assigned to you. In the space of dreams: Wendy Ortiz's 'Bruja' is vivid and dark 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Irritability is seemingly programmed into our DNA, Mr. Quinn suggests, although the angst on display today often lacks the awe-inspiring heft of the tragedies that riled the ancients. | 'Long Story Short': Colin Quinn Performs at 45 Bleecker Street 2010-08-16T21:32:00Z Like Stonehenge, the ancients aligned this monument with the stars. Beyond Dublin, a dazzling day trip 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z While reading a cento, one savored its imaginative repurposing of bits from Horace, Virgil and any number of lesser ancients. Review | For fans of ‘Game of Thrones,’ a new novel set amid the War of the Roses 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z From his home in Orange County, California, where he is a religious studies and English professor at the University of California, Irvine, Miles contemplates religion in the 21st century after years of studying the ancients. Jack Miles’ return to religion: “There are questions that remain in the human mind even when science doesn’t address them” 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Throughout their public careers, these men repeatedly sought wisdom from the ancients when grappling with the challenges of their own day. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The aim, according to the NEH's project description, is to use the ancients as a springboard for "discussions about war, comradeship, country, home and family," among other topics. NEH funds LACMA show on Sri Lanka, Ken Burns film on Vietnam War 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z That’s a deeper fear, and I imagine it stretches back to the ancients. “Hand to God”: “Sesame Street” Meets “The Exorcist” 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Spying on Caesar afterwards, Cleopatra sees him suffer what the ancients called "the falling sickness": an epileptic fit. Cleopatra hits the Nile on the head 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z It’s the drink of the ancients, made from corn, cacao, cinnamon and mamey fruit and served in a bowl. Oaxaca, Mexico – vivid art, joyous festivals – and ant eggs fried in garlic 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Placed on each cushioned seat at the show was a pack of cards depicting portraits of male ancients, each associated with some trait characteristic of a true gentleman. Milan Is Still Making It New 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z Whatever triggered this wave of secularization, the effect was to fling open the door to thinking, for the first time since the ancients, that human extinction might be possible. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z Some historians say the modern fixation on whether Cleopatra looked more like Elizabeth Taylor or Ms. James would have felt alien to the ancients. Whose Queen? Netflix and Egypt Spar Over an African Cleopatra. 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Quarles said that was “on the basis of no communication at all, which is like the ancients asserting they could describe the world by interpreting the flights and cries of birds.” Fed says it must strengthen banking rules after SVB’s collapse 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z It was intended as a joke as pebbles were the means by which the ancients cast their ballots. Sir David Butler, pioneering election analyst, dies aged 98 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Although these trees have root systems older than the oldest trees, the trees themselves are clones and generally much younger than Methuselah and other ancients. Why mystery surrounds what may be Earth’s oldest tree 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z In fact, there were some among the ancients who believed that human extinction could or would occur, while simultaneously affirming that our species is indestructible. We're all gonna die! How the idea of human extinction has reshaped our world 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z "It's easy to see how the ancients used to stargaze into the heavens and imagine that the cosmos was looking back, keeping a watchful eye over us," judge Imad Ahmed said. Astronomy Photographer of the Year: 'Once in a lifetime' picture of comet wins award 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The ancients of the area grew vines on terraced hillsides and may have produced up to one million liters of wine per year, according to Lior Schwimer, an Israeli archaeologist. Desert Winemaking ‘Sounds Absurd,’ but Israeli Vineyards in Negev Show the Way 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Beside Earth, five other planets were known to the ancients—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—and two were discovered after the invention of the telescope: Uranus and Neptune. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z It’s also possible that the ancients were simply wrong about using color, and that these statues improved as the colors faded or abraded away. Review | What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z On the hunt for two million 'hidden ancients' Bristol students' 'sensational' film uncovers city's animals 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z The ancients thought Earth’s center was hollow: the home of Hades or hellfire, or a realm of tunnels that heated ocean waters. Scientists are probing the secrets of Earth’s inner core—and how it saved life on our planet 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z There are trees from sprouts to the ancients that have gained a look attained only at great age. The marvel of old-growth forests that once cloaked the Pacific Northwest 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Today, we do not regard the Sun and Moon as planets, but the ancients applied the term to all seven of the moving objects in the sky. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Indeed, when the ancients wrote about color, from Homer and Parmenides to Plato and Aristotle, their terminology often seems decidedly foreign. Review | What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z This is the hidden thread that runs through food writing from the ancients to today that threatens to pull and unravel. What We Write About When We Write About Food 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The ancients here would usually be cremated or likely left in their version of a “sky burial,” for the carrion crows to pick clean, the bones collected later, or not. British archaeologists found a 5,000-year-old drum and three children locked in a neolithic embrace 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z With their broken branches and tops, the canopies of these forests form tiers and gaps, where ancients have fallen and sunlight pours onto the forest floor. The marvel of old-growth forests that once cloaked the Pacific Northwest 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The ancients developed cosmologies that combined their direct view of the heavens with a rich variety of philosophical and religious symbolism. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Scholars have long known that the ancients painted and gilded their statues and embedded metals, precious stones and other materials to make them seem more lifelike. Review | What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z And there are classical references mirroring Joyce’s, such as the full-page painting of a bull in the style of the ancients to illustrate a passage about a renowned bovine stud. For its 100th birthday, 'Ulysses' gets a makeover from a late, great Spanish artist 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In an earlier phase of the war, rebels used the site as a base, operating from ancients caves hewn from the rock where wiring installed by the opposition fighters can still be seen. Life in ruins: ancient sites shelter Syria's displaced 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Even modern scholars have taken the philosopher’s words at face value, repeating the idea to generations of students to emphasize the differences between today’s society and the ancients. Ancient Greeks didn’t kill ‘weak’ babies, new study argues 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Today, we know much more about the nature of the planets as physical bodies, as well as about human genetics, than the ancients could. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z The General Sherman tree — the largest living thing on earth — and other ancients that are the backdrop for photos that rarely capture the grandeur and scale of the giant sequoias were wrapped in foil blankets. Wildfires torched up to a fifth of all giant sequoia trees 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z Scientists, philosophers—and parents—have asked similar questions about what is innate and what is learned in the infant brain, going all the way back to the ancients. Infants as Young as Two Months May Be Able to Detect Faces and Scenes 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z “Here the ancients 4,000 years ago offered bloody sacrifices to their heathen gods of war,” Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener reportedly told Hill, repeating a widespread, and erroneous, interpretation of the ancient site. Columbia River Gorge Stonehenge added to National Register of Historic Places 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The ancients grappled with how to categorize the sensations that come to us through food. The Ethereal Taste of Flowers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The brightest stars have names that derive from the ancients. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z In choosing how to display mummies, whose voice counts: The perceived wishes of the ancients? The thorny ethics of displaying Egyptian mummies to the public 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z If morality concerns what we owe to others, ethics — in a tradition reaching back to the ancients — encompasses a broader terrain: It concerns how a life should be lived. My Patients Need Me. Can I Quit? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Admiration for the ancients took on a fantastical, unhinged quality, like a strange sort of mania. He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z One of the world’s largest collections of prehistoric rock art has been discovered in the Amazon rainforest and hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”. Biden boosts top team diversity as Trump continues his election assault | First Thing 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Very reasonably, the ancients thought this meant the Sun was slowly moving around Earth, taking a period of time we call 1 year to make a full circle. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Warren figured examining the Egyptian mummy — a gift from a patron that had been placed in the hospital's surgical ward to collect quarters from gawkers — would advance knowledge of the ancients. The thorny ethics of displaying Egyptian mummies to the public 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z It's time to embrace the wisdom of the ancients. How income-tax secrecy benefits Trump and hurts you 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z We ancients are currently figuring out how we can provide services to lighten their burden. Grief on the Front Line—and Beyond 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z While the ancients may have feared weather and contrived mythical figures to help them cope, we face alienation in a secular, high-tech world that promises nonhuman intelligence. Opinion | Lost graduations are ultimately trivial. But they remind us why rituals matter. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z De Chirico took a long view, from the ancients to modernity. Finally, the time to organize my library. All 2,000-plus books 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Aristocratic clients lapped it up: you shall "exceed the ancients", gushed one elderly lord, ordering three vases. What links Gwyneth Paltrow and a royal potter? 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z But perhaps the answer is to be found with the ancients, who lived in a time as chaotic as anything these internet days can throw up. It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage? | Brigid Delaney 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The idea that the ancients enjoyed chocolate for dinner is contentious. Go ahead, have chocolate for dinner: Why you should cook with it, and not just dessert 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Some 8% of our DNA, in fact, originated in viruses, remnants of ancients invasions dating back millions of years. What a Koala Virus Tells Us About the Human Genome 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z “Standing here on this hallowed ground I am reminded of the ancients,” he told the crowd on Thursday night. Resurgent centre-right party poised for victory in Greek election 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z To restore meaning to American life, he contends, all we have to do is remember two big things that the ancients figured out. Review | How we tell the story of America 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The ancients were probably drinking pink when Julius Caesar was knee-high to a grasshopper. Pale rosé isn't better – and nine other pink wine myths debunked 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps the ancients prepared cacao-spiked sauces as divine nourishment, just as they prepared sacred chocolate drinks? Go ahead, have chocolate for dinner: Why you should cook with it, and not just dessert 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Zinc is also formed in the cores of these ancients, however, leading the team to wonder how the element escaped this black hole fate. The Universe's First Stars Exploded in Strange Ways 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z To restore meaning to American life, all we really have to do is remember, in appropriate measure, two big things the ancients already figured out. Review | A conservative prescription for modern social ills 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The implication is clear: the ancients belong to foreigners, and Islam belongs to us. Into the pharaoh's chamber: how I fell in love with ancient Egypt 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z As keen students of history, they returned to the ancients for clues and embraced what one of their favorite thinkers, the Roman republican Marcus Tullius Cicero, said. Adams family values: two presidents with a message for Trump's America 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The afterlife is an old room in the house of the human imagination, and the ancients loved to offer the tour. How the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z In “Gods and Robots,” Mayor carefully examines secondary and source material — writings and artwork — to discern the ancients’ views on minds both supernatural and soulless. Review | Dreaming of artificial intelligence in ancient Greece and Silicon Valley 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “Sixty minutes,” we’re told, “is all it took for the ancients to bring humanity to the brink of extinction.” Review: ‘Mortal Engines,’ a visual marvel, is half wonderful, half monotonous 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Major cities had always been situated in the river valley, and when kings built mortuary temples and monuments, they favoured desert sites that were already sanctified by graves of the ancients. Into the pharaoh's chamber: how I fell in love with ancient Egypt 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Some of the ancients’ racial theories were derived from the Hippocratic idea of the humors. The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z I don’t really know what to think about that overall, but the part of it that appeals to me is that we don’t think about random chance the way the ancients did. Despite what Donald Trump may think, political victory is not moral vindication 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z The ancients generally regarded rage as uncontrollable and violent; it led to bad decisions and endangered the well-being of individuals and collectives. The Perils and Possibilities of Anger 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The pair survive on found food like antediluvian Twinkies from back in the day, causing Hester to knowingly proclaim, “the food of the ancients is indestructible.” Review: ‘Mortal Engines,’ a visual marvel, is half wonderful, half monotonous 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z A medically informed translation of Galen’s classic text, written by a former neuroscientist, illuminates how the ancients saw ageing. Monday briefing: Searching for the man behind one of the biggest frauds in scientific history 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z During the Enlightenment, thinkers such as Newton and Descartes replaced the ancients’ organic concept of order with a mechanistic view. David Bohm, Quantum Mechanics and Enlightenment 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z It is soul-stirring to hold the pieces, imagining them in the hands of the ancients. Researchers imaging ancient treasures find hidden history 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Cifarelli notes that the ancients likely used drugs not just to heal, but to forge sets of beliefs, and contact a spiritual realm where healing and religion were entwined. Did ancient Mesopotamians get high? Near Eastern rituals may have included opium, cannabis 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The exhibit showcases the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancients writings primarily in Hebrew that include at least fragments from almost every Old Testament book. Exhibit featuring old biblical documents opening in Denver 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z No wonder those North African ancients chose encaustic specifically for mummy portraits. Does the Broad's new Jasper Johns exhibition hit the bull's-eye? It gets darn close 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z For the ancients, families were the first and smallest societies, units of cooperation and order within which people learn to get along with others. Opinion | Trump’s paid family leave plan would punish those who choose to have kids 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z “There is something here the ancients knew that we’ve somehow forgotten,” she continued. Mary Gauthier's 'Rifles and Rosary Beads' album born of writing with combat vets, spouses 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The ancients had their version of freedom, and they were as fiercely protective of it as we are of ours. Opinion | President Trump is the freest man alive 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Yet of course, as the ancients knew, there is no new thing under the sun. How Medieval Fake News Brought Down the Knights Templar 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z The number of Scots going to a university - whether one of the ancients, one created in the 1960s or a former polytechnic - is around a record high. The university that broke the mould turns 50 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z This frightened the ancients, who feared that the source of all life was about to be extinguished. Tracking the ‘eye of God’ — a U.S. solar eclipse 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Even the ancients complained of ignorance about the past and inaccuracies on the page. The Single Greatest Witch Hunt in American History, for Real 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The ancients knew that the saturnalia reminded everyone, just once a year, what really happens – hello, Steve Bannon? – when government shuts down and the lights go out. Praise Philip, the Prince of Misrule | James Hawes 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Wednesday is intent on uniting the ancients to reclaim their rightful spot as worshiped, sacred beings. Ian McShane embraces the creativity of 'American Gods': 'It’s bold, it’s brave, it’s out there' 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z As Mr. Wednesday tries to bring the ancients back together, several conversations about the creation of this nation emerge. The deities behind 'American Gods' are off to a bloody start 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z We visited the desolate spot near Naples which, the ancients believed, was the entrance to Hades. A Father’s Final Odyssey 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z For those ancients worshiping the sun god Dazhboh, decorated eggs were an affirmation of spring following a harsh winter. A colorful — and delicate — Ukrainian tradition 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z We called these messages what they were: texts, as if we were describing the histories of ancients. Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Jefferson was channelling the ancients as he daydreamed of the future. Draining the Swamp 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The most famous party in history was a symposium in Athens—a symposium being, for the ancients Greeks, a drinking party, often accompanied by food, musicians, dancers and good conversation. The Art of Partying, From Socrates to Capote 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The ancients weren't the only ones using theatre to deliver political messages. Hamilton vs Trump: The long history of political protest in the theatre - BBC News 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Shortman is also putting together a video game called Twin Warriors based on a Navajo birth-story, where twin boys must face a series of otherworldly monsters and ancients to prevail in life. Native apps: How digital technology is helping to preserve fading Native American languages 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Her use of verse connects us to the myths of the ancients, the magic of the natural world and the essence of who we are. 2015 recipients of the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z But even a glance at the treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb makes it clear that the ancients went a long way with crude technology. Prospecting for the Pharaohs' Gold "All Americans are cowards," one of these ancients says later. 'Under the Sun' goes inside North Korea to expose its carefully managed public face 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z As the ancients sages said, "there are many illnesses but only one health." A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are in Decline 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Can modern medicine learn anything from the ancients? Amazing Things We’ve Learned From 800 Ancient Skull Surgeries Since the days of the ancients, gold has been prized, coveted and viewed throughout the world as an asset with real inherent value. 5 Reasons Not to Invest in Gold 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z We deal with a lot of our issues through these characters the way the ancients explained volcanoes or earthquakes by inventing gods. Dr. Phil McGraw, Susan Lucci and More on Secrets 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z "This is the dawn we've been waiting for, this is the dawn the ancients cared about so much," he said. Stonehenge winter solstice celebrated - BBC News 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Have you considered, husband, why the ancients who built this place made the hall so large? Citadel : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z For the ancients in this part of southern England, it created a prime real estate opportunity — next to a spring and near attractive hunting grounds. Stonehenge Begins to Yield Its Secrets 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z With what the ancients then called “control of government,” the victorious party would enact legislation reflecting its beliefs and ideas. Republicans on the Brink 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The planet’s red tint made it a distinctive – but ominous – nighttime presence to the ancients, who gazed at it with the naked eye. How Close Are We to Actually Becoming Martians? 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z A contemporary of Shakespeare, Harvey was the first to demonstrate that mammals have a circulatory system, overthrowing the one-way notions held by the ancients. STEM Study Starts With Liberal Arts 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Leaving aside the question of whether the ancients realized Earth must be round and the evidence of Norse voyages that predated Columbus, actual proof must be ascribed to the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The explorers who really disproved flat-Earth theories 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Saturn was known to the ancients only as a point of light. Saturn: A History [Slide Show] 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z From our perspective, Mercury appears to move quickly and erratically, so the ancients called it a messenger and a trickster. Retrograde Beliefs 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z This is an age-old debate that dates back to the ancients. Online Survey: Do You Believe That Free Will Exists? 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The personal message from Vesalius was clear - his dissection talents were so impressive that even the ancients looked on with respect. The self-publicist whose medical text books caused a stir 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z But instead of the ancients, the portraits are of 30 individuals – Indians, activists, lawyers and priests – who were killed in the struggle against deforestation by ranchers and loggers. São Paulo biennial: radical art and the struggle for survival 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z It’s hardly news that the ancients drank wine—the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians all imbibed, as did pretty much any other civilization in which alcohol wasn’t prohibited for religious reasons. What the Bronze Age Wine Snobs Drank 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Still, he hopes his findings encourage archaeologists to consider what the ancients heard, in addition to what they saw and did. Older Than the Rolling Stones 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z I also lead hikes into the island’s interior, the last of the areas untouched by modern progress that remain as they were in the days of the ancients. A Custodian of Kauai’s Secrets 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Thanks to the artificial lighting that washes out the glory of the night sky in many parts of the developed world, it’s hard to understand why the ancients were in such awe of the heavens. Goodnight, Moon: Why the Lunar Lights Will Go Out Tonight 2014-04-14T15:51:14Z Falling Upward: It’s time to learn from the ancients to create new ways to entertain our kids. Physics Week in Review: December 21, 2013 2013-12-22T12:45:03.419Z The ancients believed it was the "first matter" from which all other metals were formed. A beautiful but deadly liquid metal 2013-11-30T02:16:47Z The fact is, both the ancients and pre-Galileo Medievalists equated geography with divine order, geophysics with metaphysics, and simply didn't see the need to connect "itineraries" with map concepts. A World Without Maps 2013-10-30T01:32:46Z The bog destroys the DNA, depriving researchers of genetic information and making it very difficult for Irish people to claim descent from these ancients. Ireland claims world's oldest bogman 2013-09-24T00:09:26Z The circle is not just a curiosity, but was designed to be a real contribution to what was a very live debate about what the ancients knew about the stars. Stone circle under threat from planners 2013-09-21T23:06:03Z After an eternity of waiting for the next generation of worthy Birds, the modern names far outnumber the ancients. Baltimore Orioles are making Camden Yards fun again 2013-07-10T20:02:32Z As the modern-day ancients relax in their camp at the base of the mountain, a few sell philosophy books, CDs, food and jewellery. The Greeks who worship the ancient gods 2013-06-20T00:26:17Z Back in December, “Listening to Cicadas at Midnight” offered more detail of why the campaign was necessary, quoting “the ancients.” IHT Rendezvous: In New Chinese Campaign, Concerns Over Morals and Corruption 2013-05-01T13:38:31Z But to the ancients, oikos referred to the homestead, or hearth, or household. How to Distinguish Between a Honest Online Entrepreneur and a Hustler With a MacBook Air 2013-01-27T17:46:15Z If that’s the case, then maybe the Hindu ancients—and the tens of millions journeying to the confluence of the rivers now—are onto something. The Kumbh Mela: Inside the World's Single Largest Gathering of Humanity 2013-01-16T05:05:22Z Plans for Crispin Odey's chicken house: 'Odey has gone for something serious, and therefore pretentious: an attempt to emulate the taste of the ancients.' The fowl extravagance of Crispin Odey's chicken house 2012-09-26T10:20:22Z The performance combines classic drama with lessons about what the ancients have to teach us, all these centuries later. The Greeks who worship the ancient gods 2013-06-20T00:26:17Z “The ancients said, ‘Using copper as a mirror you can adjust correctly your clothes and hat. IHT Rendezvous: In New Chinese Campaign, Concerns Over Morals and Corruption 2013-05-01T13:38:31Z "We are determined to try and ensure that they return to the Olympic ideals that guided the ancients when they held them." Greece fails to muster enthusiasm for 2012 Olympics despite ties 2012-08-02T10:46:41Z Among the ancients, they were brought to the temples, and subjected to imposing ceremonies, which were believed supernaturally to relieve them, and which probably had a favourable influence through their action upon the imagination. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Odey has gone instead for something much more serious, and therefore pretentious: an attempt to emulate the taste of the ancients. The fowl extravagance of Crispin Odey's chicken house 2012-09-26T10:20:22Z He knew the “wisdom of the ancients” in the cataloguing of the stars, and suggested a reform of the calendar—following the then unknown poet-astronomer of Naishapur. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z He has himself made the "morion" of the ancients, dispensing the prescription of Dioscorides and Pliny. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z This heroic endeavour to restore the customs of the ancients was not crowned with immediate success, and he who should have been beaten with stripes fled for justice to the Vice-Chancellor's Court. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z Two aspects under which the Stoics worshipped the Divinity—providence and moral goodness, 198 Gods, the, of the ancients, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The drug was used by the ancients in paralysis, gout and other diseases, more particularly in insanity, a fact frequently alluded to by classical writers, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z This view of nature, as of something designedly concealed from man, that can be unveiled only by force or dishonesty, chimed in better with the conceptions of the ancients than with modern notions. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z It is curious what a close guess the ancients made to locate the exact centre of the island. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z According to the ancients, the lawgiver begins to civilize society and to earn veneration by establishing marriage and sanctifying the family. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Oriental, passion for, among the Romans, 318 Religious liberty totally destroyed by the Catholics, ii. 194-199 Repentance for past sin, no place for, in the writings of the ancients, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Between the hedonism of the ancients and that of modern philosophers there lies a great gulf. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z A forerunner of the Humanists, he labored to diffuse classical culture, and with his admiration for the ancients he had, like Marsiglio of Padua, imbibed the imperial theory of the relations between Church and State. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z According to Plutarch the ancients “set Hermes by the side of Aphrodite,” i.e. the male and female principles of generation; and the two deities were worshipped together in Argos and elsewhere. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The identity of the two deities is so striking that the ancients themselves, forestalling comparative mythology, recognized it from the very first. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Preparation for death one of the chief ends of the philosophy of the ancients, 202. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The ancients tell us plainly enough that they are derived from the cosmogonic elements. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z The admirer of the ancients, and their grateful disciple. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z Some of the ancients connected her with the earth; Plato, followed by the Stoics, derived her name from ἀήρ, the air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z The country was essentially a mining district, and very rich in mineral wealth, though, strange to say, it had not been much worked by the ancients. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Its influence on the Stoics, 245 Eclipses, opinions of the ancients concerning, i. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The ancients were not well agreed who they were: some even said that they were Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges, the sons of Tellus and the sun. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z He was familiar with the languages of the ancients and of the east, and had imbibed gigantic strength at these fountains of tradition. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The legend of Silenus is itself an evidence of the tendency of the ancients to fall into caricature. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The explanations of many epithets and phrases reveal many important facts about the religion and social life of the ancients. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z First of all, Sun stated, in terms more general than did the ancients, the necessity of establishing the ideology on the basis of pragmatism. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z As the ancients swore by them, there can be little doubt but that they were the three great deities of their religion. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z If the ancients heard these noises in former eruptions, it is easily conceivable how they imagined a forge to exist in the centre of the volcano, with Cyclops for the master workman. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Many others will occur to the reader who is familiar with the lighter utterances of the ancients. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z The modern title applied to the sea “between the lands” is not that of the ancients, nor indeed that of some peoples now. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The ancients thought that Britain was distinguished from all the world by unpassable seas and northern winds. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z It was Plato's conceit, and other ancients with him, that bringing into the community of a commonwealth all property, making it shared in common, was to make mankind happy and prosperous. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z Rome was the last divinity of the ancients. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The ancients seem themselves to have regarded this name as a matter of little interest; nor, in fact, do they generally care to specify the authorship of their most illustrious buildings. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z That grand old Rock, what has it not witnessed since the first timid mariner crept out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic—the Mare Tenebrosum,—the “sea of darkness” of the ancients? The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The ancients followed up the bath by anointing the body, and athletic exercises. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Besides the four elements fire, water, air and earth, the ancients admitted a fifth, belonging to the material order, which they named animus, the soul of the world, the animating principle, ether. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z He has hardly his superior as a poet, either among the ancients or the moderns. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z In every other the moderns, if they have not equalled, are not far behind the ancients. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The ancients knew the use of plates of iron or brass for covering ships of war and battering-rams. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Among the ancients they were usually of the latter kind. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z But, as in so many other cases, it was divined by the ancients. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Pan was widely worshiped in olden times, however; and the ancients not only decked his altars with flowers, but sang his praises, and celebrated festivals in his honor. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z It was common among the ancients to presage the birth of a god by the appearance of a mysterious star, and for astronomers to hasten to adore the new-born deity and present him gifts. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It is only from the Scriptures, and from fragmentary allusions in the writings of profane historians and poets, that we can derive any knowledge of the vessels employed by the ancients. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z It is indeed true that the ancients were by no means unanimous in their approval of the act. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The four material elements of the ancients have been dissected by modern analysis. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z According to the ancients’ belief, every mountain, valley, plain, lake, river, grove, and sea was provided with some lesser deity, whose special duty was assigned by the powerful gods of Olympus. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Proclus alleges that even Plato himself drew many of his peculiar dogmas from the symbolisms of the ancients. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z The term “Grotesque,” which conveys to us an idea of humourous distortion or exaggeration, is simply grotto-esque, being literally the style of art found in the grottos or baths of the ancients. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z The ancients were convinced that dreams were usually supernatural. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z It was also called by the ancients the Ram with the golden horns. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The ancients were not content to worship the gods only, but also offered up sacrifices to a few mortals, who, by their heroic deeds and virtuous lives, had won both admiration and respect. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Heyne has truly said that “from myths all the history and all the philosophy of the ancients proceed.” The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Whether consciously or not, the ancients used many such adjunctive curved lines, and Hogarth’s conclusions cannot be styled fanciful. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z There is some curious information on this subject in Waterland's “Charge to the Clergy of Middlesex, to prove that the wisdom of the ancients was borrowed from revelation; delivered in 1731.” History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Scorpio rises when Orion sets, and he thinks that the idea of the ancients was that the Scorpion in this way kills the giant Orion. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z In the moon myths the most important personification is first Diana, the horned huntress, “for to the ancients the moon was not a lifeless ball of stones and clods.” Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z It is well known that this method was not confined to the ancients, but played a conspicuous part in the Middle Ages, and that its baneful influence is not yet exhausted. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It was here the ancients first met the suggestive wonder of the open ocean, and their philosophers pondered over the phenomenon of the tides. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z National power, and in most cases even national independence, implied among the ancients the constant energy of high intellectual or moral qualities. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The stars Aldebaran, Regulus, Antares, and Fomalhaut were called royal stars by the ancients. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z After leaving the joyless regions of Pluto’s realm, and following the even course of the Lethe River, the ancients fancied one reached a large cave in a remote and quiet valley. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z The ancients saw no impurity in the symbolism of parentage to indicate the work of creation. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z It was this province with its astonishing fertility that had been the land of Elysium of the ancients. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The belief that certain diseases were inflicted by Divine agency was familiar to the ancients, but among the early Greeks the notion of diabolical possession appears to have been unknown. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The ancients only observed this number of stars, which they divided into six classes according to magnitude. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z Thus, according to the ancients, evil entered into the world, bringing untold misery; but Hope followed closely in its footsteps, to aid struggling humanity, and point to a happier future. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Both parties professed to be the custodians of the Kabala or traditions of the ancients. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z In the tympanum are small figures typifying the Holy City of Isaiah, and on its arch are seated, on a rounding bench, the twenty-four ancients of the Apocalypse, with musical instruments and vases of perfume. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Hence, we say, among the moderns, among the ancients, among the thickest of trees, among these considerations, among the reasons I have to offer. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The proper motion of Sirius could not possibly have been known to the ancients, as it was only revealed by accurate modern observations. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The Earth thus created was supposed by the ancients to be a disk, instead of a sphere as science has proved. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Prescott. µ The ancients considered the bile to be the ½humor¸ which caused irascibility. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z This attitude may be summed up in the one phrase, the absolute dominance of "authority"—the authority, primarily, of the Church, supplemented by the writings of a few ancients like Aristotle. A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance 2012-03-23T02:00:40.930Z The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z A coin struck by L. Lucretius Trio in 74 B.C., shows the seven stars of the Plough, or as the ancients called them Septem Triones. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z Jupiter was, of course, very widely and generally worshiped by the ancients; and his principal temples—the Capitol at Rome, and the shrine of Jupiter Ammon in Libya—have been world-renowned. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Alcoholism among the ancients was therefore mainly or exclusively known in its acute phases, the drunken frenzy in which Alexander the Great killed Clitus being a familiar example. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z A mystical word used as a charm and engraved on gems among the ancients; also, a gem stone thus engraved. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Venus Venus was naturally—owing to its brightness—the first of the planets known to the ancients. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z Needless to say, this cruel deity was viewed by the ancients with fear and dislike, and no homage was offered him. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The old-time notion, that small, round eggs produce females, and long, pointed ones males—originally applied, by the ancients, to eating rather than hatching purposes—may be considered exploded. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z But they seem to have been noticed by the ancients. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z The ancients everywhere could not fail to recognize the sun’s kindly influence and beneficent power, and were therefore ever ready to worship Apollo. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z When the ancients christened Palma "the Pearl of the Mediterranean," they gave it a title that to this day it deserves. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z In fact, the hog was very highly prized among the early nations of Europe; and some of the ancients even paid it divine honors. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; Ð applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z These men have the wisdom of the ancients, who could read the stars and knew of many things long since forgotten. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z The ancients also celebrated many festivals in honor of this fair goddess of the moon, who was ever ready to extend her protection over all deserving mortals. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z The ancients gave to this hidden and mysterious power the name of Fate. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z The ancients considered the distinguishing marks of a good boar to be a small head, short legs, a long body, large thighs and neck, and this latter part thickly covered with strong, erect bristles. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z He had an altar and a brazen figure of the Thunderer, and performed his devotions as regularly as the most pious sacerdos of the ancients. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z The ancients themselves did not practice polygamy, but their gods were supposed to be able to indulge all their passions with impunity. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z Nor do I see how he could help being of that opinion, if others of the ancients, whose credit is equally good, did not carry him into other places. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Mars appeared to the ancients just as it does to us to-day. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Among the ancients, a twoÐhandled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z To the ancients honey was of very great importance as an article of diet, being almost their only available source of sugar. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z This somewhat complex theory explained very well what was known of astronomy in the days of the ancients. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z We have seen what opinion the ancients had of our Author, and his writings. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Of course no man, unless endowed with all the wisdom of the ancients and the moderns, could write so much on such a variety of subjects, without committing to paper a good deal of nonsense. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z The ancients held fat people in sovereign contempt. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The recent attempts—already, as they deserved, forgotten—to rehabilitate the Mnemonic of the ancients, consist in transforming names into images, and thus again deposing memory to the level of imagination. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z This color shows that time as well as place affects our color notions, for magenta is believed to be the honored royal purple of the ancients. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z The ancients poured out libations of the choicest juices of earth, to express their gratitude to the Power that had enabled them to be sustained from her bosom. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The ancients had a notion that when Saturn devoured his own children, his wife Ops deceived him by substituting a large stone in lieu of one of his sons, which stone was called Abadir. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z The remains of human bones, found in tombs and Egyptian mummies, demonstrate this fact most clearly; and the armour, helmets, and breastplates of the ancients confirm it. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Like most of the aphorisms of the ancients for subtle wisdom, is the saying, "We should reverence the presence of children." The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Wood graining is performed in all countries, and such imitations seem to have been practised by the ancients. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z What the ancients meant to express by Apollo's continual disappointment in his loves, is felt daily in the youth of genius. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z In deceiving the eye of animals, he equalled the ancients, as we are acquainted by Lomazzo in the opening of his third book. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z The ancients firmly believed that blood can be stanched by charms; the bleeding of Ulysses was stopped by this means; and Cato the Censor has given us an incantation for setting dislocated bones. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "Among the ancients, I believe," said a fair girl, "a long, snowy beard was considered an emblem of the wisdom of the possessor." The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Certain of the ancients insist on discovering in St. Luke xxiv. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z Information as to the field sports of the ancients is in many directions extremely fragmentary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z In the same manner also as Mantegna he covered his models with glued canvass, or with pasteboard, in order that in the curves and folds he might correct the ancients. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z This plant, now in total disuse, was considered by the ancients as a most powerful aphrodisiac, and consecrated to Venus. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Tree-worship among the ancients had a most important influence on the preservation of forests in circumscribed places. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z I proceed to shew how inveterately the ancients have confused these two narratives, or rather these two distinct occasions. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z We must die in this country or get out of it as great as the ancients. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Not a quarter of the graves have stones, and that part of the ground occupied by the ancients of the village is so mounded and overcrowded that you may not avoid walking upon them. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The ancients, who were chiefly guided in their medical notions by the simple operations of nature, attached great importance to the influence of the moon. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The physics of the ancients were heaps of conjecture. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Now, the ancients, and indeed the moderns too, have hopelessly confused this pathetic story by identifying the “vinegar and gall” of St. Matt. xxvii. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z The plant is an acrid poison and was extensively used in medicine by the ancients. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z This morning all were Christmas-trees, and the ancients of the isle hung out their banners to greet the day. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Not only did the ancients consider the animal creation as constantly under planetary influence, but all vegetable productions and medicinal substances were subject to its laws. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But the significance of this statement was not realized by the ancients, who mercilessly destroyed all the defective, the deaf among the rest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The ancients lied about animals, too: but then they lied logically; we unreasonably. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The new world of bacteriology was then undreamt of, but the discoveries of thousands of years have done no more than verify the experience of the ancients. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z Plato, Aristotle, Pliny, and the rest of the ancients appear as vanquished knights compelled to do honor to my Lady Tar. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Somnambulism was well known by the ancients; and Aristotle tells us, “there are individuals who rise in their sleep, and walk about seeing as clearly as those that are awake.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The ancients, who confined the climates to what they imagined the habitable parts of the earth, only allowed of seven. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-15T03:00:31.720Z I admit that I am somewhat amazed at the wisdom of the ancients. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z To an edition of Delia and Rosamond, in 1594, was added the tragedy of Cleopatra, a severe study in the manner of the ancients, in alternately rhyming heroic verse, diversified by stiff choral interludes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z This fish was known to the ancients, who esteemed it a royal fare, when dressed with mead, parsley, turmeric, and mint. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Eels were also highly esteemed by the ancients. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He learned from the prisoner that the country was subject to women, who lived after the manner of the Amazons of the ancients, and who possessed gold and silver in abundance. Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z In his second chapter Defoe classifies the magic of the ancients under three heads: i. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z This is of course erroneous, but it reminds one of the Helleborine of the ancients, so graphically described by Hahnemann. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Very few of them know all the points of the compass, some of them not any — their manner of steering being more after the manner of the ancients. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Despite its impiety, there was something refined in that conviction of the ancients, who imagined that in bestowing their farewell kiss they inhaled the souls of those they loved. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z What must it have been to the rude implements of the ancients? Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Defoe argues that the ancients at first were acquainted only with the purer form of magic, and that, therefore, sorcery and witchcraft were of much later development. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z The head and hands became covered with suppurating nodules and small exuding herpetic spots, which became confluent and itched terribly, a most classic picture of the herpes of the ancients. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z The ancients considered it extremely venomous, even to the slightest touch, but like many other assertions, it is ill-founded, for I have handled many of them and received no hurt. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z To enter into these medical opinions would be foreign to the present purpose, but the notions of the ancients regarding lunar influence in other matters are curious. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Previously to entering upon the immediate subject of this Essay, it may be permitted to observe, that a sort of Death’s dance was not unknown to the ancients. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The ancients believed that earthly prosperity and well-being depended on the favor of God, or the gods, and that the favor of the gods could be secured by sacrifice. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z It was noted among the ancients for its intellectual life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z This tabaxir is said to possess strong medicinal qualities, and was held in such esteem by the ancients, that it was often sold for its weight in silver. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The ancients however were very careful in the preparation of their bread, justly called the “staff of life,” as constituting one of the most wholesome and nutritious parts of our food. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It is very well known that the ancients often symbolized the human soul by the figure of a butterfly, an idea that is extremely obvious and appropriate, as well as elegant. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The ancients believed that every country has its God, and to say "Thy God shall be my God" was tantamount to saying "Thy country shall be my country." The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Laws were engraved on cypress by the ancients, and objects of value were preserved in receptacles made of it; thus Horace speaks of poems levi servanda cupresso. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Phlegm, flem, n. one of the four elements of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed: the thick, slimy matter secreted in the throat, and discharged by coughing: sluggishness: indifference: calmness.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z This peculiar faculty was well known to the ancients. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z There is, however, some confusion even among the ancients themselves, as to the respective qualities of the larvæ and lemures. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The offence of drunkenness was a source of great perplexity to the ancients, who tried every possible way of dealing with it. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z From Pliny we learn that the ancients took the ground seed medicinally with bread, water or wine, and that it was accounted the best of condiments as a remedy for squeamishness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The ancients were not ashamed to indulge in this intellectual pastime, and their anagrams, says Samuel Maunder, occasionally contained some happy allusion. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z Reluctance in remunerating medical attendants was also manifested by the ancients; and Seneca has treated the subject at some length. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The phrase of pulling the ear is admonitory, that organ being regarded by the ancients as the seat of memory. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The ancients, also, in their lower stages of civilization, lived on barley bread by way of preference, and went over to wheat only at a later period; compare Plin., Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z The confusion between Ethiopia and Farther India, which existed in the minds of the ancients and mediæval geographers, caused some writers to place the Lost Ten Tribes in Abyssinia. The History of the Ten "Lost" Tribes Anglo-Israelism Examined 2012-01-22T03:00:22.903Z Reserving the ancients for future consideration, let us see what the moderns have to boast of in this respect. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z Although this letter of Aspasia is an evident fiction, yet it gives an excellent, though a romantic description of the incubation of the ancients. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Danish one, 159. known to the ancients, 12. one at Pompeii, 13. the term sometimes improperly used, 81. verses belonging to it, 17. where sculptured and painted, 17. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z The ancients proceeded sometimes in a similar way in the case of slave actors: Juvenal, VI, 73. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z It was from this conception that the ancients were in the habit of carving or painting the organs of generation upon the walls of their holy temples. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z P.266.—'If the moderns excel the ancients in any department of poetry, it is in that now under consideration. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z This theory of the ancients has been frequently revived in modern times, and has not a little contributed to increase the mystery that veils the nature of our existence. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Larvæ and lemures, confusion among the ancients as to their respective qualities, 4. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Commercial treaties of this kind are found very early and very frequently among the ancients. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z And we find the ancients had both the crucifixion and resurrection of a God symbolically and astronomically represented among the plants. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z This infant, like the infants of Michael Angelo, and of what we possess of the ancients, teems with the man, but without that sacrifice of puerility observable in them. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The ancients were remarkably cautious in this respect, especially when we take into consideration the climate of Greece and Rome during the summer months. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Skeleton, use made of the human by the ancients, 3. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z There is a singular provision respecting the tenure of chambers in this inn by the ancients. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z Mr. Higgins remarks that "Among the ancients there seems to have been a very general idea that the arrival of Gods and great personages who were expected to come, would be announced by a star." The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z Notwithstanding the predilection which Fuseli had for the ancients, particularly Homer, yet he considered the three first acts of "Hamlet," and the second book of "Paradise Lost," to be the highest flights of human genius. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The ancients held hasty inhumation in great dread, and grounded their apprehension on various current traditions. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Common as burning was, among the ancients, it was looked upon, by some, with great abhorrence. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z He had heard his father say that the reader “burlesqued the things so greatly” that the ancients were disgusted, and would not have another. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z The history of the physical science of the ancients cannot, indeed, be regarded as so interesting or important as that of their metaphysical philosophy. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The ancients, instead of putting a figure, painted the picture of one, on the fore part of their vessels, and this was called "the sign." "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z However, it is somewhat doubtful whether the vervain of the ancients was similar to the plant which now bears that name. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Burning or interring was adopted, by the ancients, at the will of the relatives. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The only source of income was the rents of chambers, which then amounted to between eighteen and nineteen hundred pounds a year; and the ancients have no duties beyond the administration of the funds. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z And round about the throne were four-and-twenty seats; and upon the seats four-and-twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments, and on their heads crowns of gold. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z Castor and Pollux were two of the imaginary gods or heroes of the ancients: they were twin brothers, and were supposed to take particular care of sailors. "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) 2012-01-13T03:00:12.913Z Impressed with its sublime nature, the ancients gave it a divine origin. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The practice of burying in their own houses, among the ancients, gave place to burying without the city, or to cremation. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Maltha, mal′tha, n. a thick mineral pitch: any similar preparation used by the ancients as a cement, stucco, or mortar. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z And one of the ancients said to me, Weep not; behold the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z The art of gilding was known to the ancients. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Our Shakspeare had adopted the term of the ancients, as appears in the following passages: In such as you, That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh At each his needless heavings. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The common opinion is, that they were heathen sepulchres—the puticuli of the ancients. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Hypocaust, hip′o-kawst, n. among the ancients, a vaulted chamber from which the heat of stoves was distributed to baths or rooms above: now applied to the fireplace of a stove or hothouse. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Whereupon he immediately inferred that he ought to apply himself to reading the books of the ancients. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z At the vernal equinox, the ancients celebrated the bridal of the sun and the earth. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z The sums expended by the ancients on their table exceed all belief. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Of this the ancients had the same impression. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z It had for some three hours lifted him out of the present and immersed him in scenes and amid a company of naive ancients, starkly alive. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Book I. Containing translations from the ancients; and other pieces on various subjects, written in America. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z The origin of life is, even to us, with all our lights, as great a mystery as it was to the ancients. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z Whatever barbarity the ancients may have shown in preparing their dainty dishes, none could have surpassed in refinement of cruelty. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Such was very naturally the opinion of the ancients, in relation to the dead. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Known to the ancients as the Pillars of Hercules, the strategically important gateway between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean is laced with mirroring versions of history — a commodity in no short supply here. | Borderlines: Fighting over Parsley 2012-01-03T05:23:04Z So thought the ancients even long before revelation had spoken. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z But there is one point, a most momentous one, in which oratory is essentially necessary to us, but was not in the least so to the ancients. A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z The ancients, equally aware of the danger that arose from intoxication, were also anxious to prevent it. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The funereal urns of the ancients were of different sizes and forms, and of materials, more or less costly, according to the ability and taste of the surviving friends. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z In fact, both rocks are the actual Pillars of Hercules known to the ancients, named after the legendary hero because they marked the westernmost extent of his 12 Labors. | Borderlines: Fighting over Parsley 2012-01-03T05:23:04Z Second sight is, like all similar magic phenomena, frequently mentioned in the writings of the ancients. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Have we not the same organs of speech, the same features, the same limbs, muscles, and nerves, that the ancients had? A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z The ancients were so fond of perfumes, that they scented their persons and garments, their vases, their domestic vessels, and their military insignia. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z There was, doubtless, another motive for this practice among the ancients. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The patio into which I was shut might have been on that earth the ancients conceived of as round and flat as a plate. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Simon Magus was a magician in the sense in which the ancients used that term; but he possessed evidently, in addition, all the powers claimed by better spiritualists, like Home in our day. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Did the ancients possess any advantages over us from nature, either in point of intellectual faculties, or the animal œconomy? A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z The distance at which a dog tracks his master is scarcely credible; and it is strange that the ancients attributed a similar perfection to the goose. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Nothing appears more incomprehensible, in connection with this subject, than the employment of players and buffoons, by the ancients, at their funerals. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The ancients represent it as a veritable state of possession. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z The ancients saw, of course, most frequently their gods; the pagans, who had been converted to Christianity, their former idols threatening them with dire punishment; and Christians, their saints and martyrs, their angels and demons. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z In short, the difference between the ancients and us, arises from one obvious cause. A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z This is the far-famed mandragore, of which such wonderful accounts have been related by both ancients and moderns. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Therefore we find in the works of the ancients, that the beauty distinctly comprehended by them, is not expressed in one form, but in many forms of different character. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It is easy to idealize freedom, revolution, or war: and the ancients found it easy to compose lyrics on kings, athletes, warriors, or other powerful persons. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z A speculum for gynaecological purposes has been found in the ruins of Pompeii, and votive offerings of anatomical parts found in the temples show that various gynaecological malformations were known to the ancients. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z But though, upon trial, we should not find ourselves able to surpass the ancients, let us not shamefully suffer ourselves to be outdone in those arts by the moderns. A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) 2012-01-01T03:00:09.283Z This fancy pervades the poetry of the ancients. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z They are properly called Ebionites by the ancients, as those who cherished a low and mean opinion of Christ. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z The ancients did not represent death as Christians do, with meagre countenance, and a hideous structure of bones; but pleasant and composed, as the image of the profoundest sleep; and such it struck no terror. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z How skilfully he has interwoven, in this sketch of oriental letters, the notices of the ancients and the researches of the moderns on the East! The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Even Paganism, with its aping of the ancients and its depreciation of Christian doctrine and morality, has yielded before the human craving for spirituality, and is falling to pieces rapidly. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The vital and intellectual fire of the ancients that animated all living beings was admitted by most of their physicians, especially by Hippocrates, Galen, and Aretæus. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He was an upholder of the ancients in philosophy, and his bias would be to depreciate modern successes, and magnify modern failures. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-21T03:00:39.257Z The learned Dr. Parkhurst has translated and shown that this word elohim or gods means the seven planetary bodies, as known to the ancients. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The descent of the Colchians from the Egyptians, or the existence of an Egyptian colony in Colchis, was regarded by the ancients as an historical fact. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z This was the vegetable wool of the ancients, which many learned authorities have identified with the byssus, in bandages of cloth made from which the old Egyptians wrapped their mummies. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z The expectation of life at the age of 60 of the ancients were nearly 15 years, of the modern musicians 13½. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Dutens gives many passages in his work, above-named, from old authors in support of his view that a composition of the nature of gunpowder was not unknown to the ancients. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z Mr. Higgins says:—"On the color of the gods of the ancients, and of the identity of them all with the god Sol,** and with the Chrishna of India, nothing more need be said." Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The ancients adopted them as symbols of wisdom. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z It must be added, however, that this use is of a quite different nature from that of the ancients. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Enthusiasts are supposed by their followers to be gifted with the faculty of prophecy; and it is somewhat strange that the ancients considered certain temperaments as best fitted for this inspiration. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He did not meanly crib and pilfer in the territories of the ancients: he rather pillaged, or, in our American phrase, "annexed" them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z "I am afraid," I said, "I could only look at it, for I have not studied the ancients." The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Porcelain, though differing so widely in appearance and texture from the coarse mediæval earthenware or the pottery of the ancients, is found to have a distinct relationship when all these bodies are submitted to analysis. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z The ancients drew no such distinction between portions of their chemical knowledge, limited as it was, as is implied by the modern terms "organic" and "inorganic chemistry." Heroes of Science Chemists 2011-12-09T03:00:21.047Z Travel has been recommended both by the ancients and the moderns. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It is not necessary for youth, as the ancients show, but even in the highest degree dangerous, as the moderns show. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Perhaps the idea has also come to you that in these cases mistakes have taken the place of the Omina or omens of the ancients. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z England had been long famed for cheapness but not for beauty, and so he set himself to study the designs of the ancients and of the Greeks, copying them on china and porcelain. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z Vineyard, the most profitable part of agriculture, both among the ancients and moderns, 65. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z The ancients dreaded the impurity of their rivers. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It has been assumed with much confidence that Cornwall or the Scilly Isles must have been the Cassiterides of the ancients. Cornwall 2011-12-05T03:00:38.530Z Let us confess to sharing the prejudice of the ancients and the common people, and let us follow in the footsteps of the ancient dream interpreters. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z This strait, which is spanned by a swing-bridge, is about 180 ft. wide, and is remarkable for the unexplained eccentricity of its tide, which has puzzled ancients and moderns alike. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The ancients used to believe that monsters were created by the union of two commingling elements, such as earth and heaven. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The ancients placed much faith in the medicinal properties of these fishes. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z There can be no reasonable doubt that the bird thus described at such distant intervals of time is the same, and that the Sea Eagle of the ancients is the Osprey of the moderns. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The ancients attributed the annual floods to the god of the Nile, as shown in that statue of Father Nile in the Vatican. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z According to craniologists the modern Greeks are brachycephalous while the ancient race is stated to have been dolichocephalous, but it seems doubtful whether any such generalization with regard to the ancients can be conclusively established. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Their life—partaking as it did of the development of the ages, and so of the wider freedom of thought and feeling, was the life of the ancients and not far from idyllic. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z The ancients had an axiom founded upon observation, “if you wish to become robust, eat and labour; if you wish to become wise, fast and meditate.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The ancients built temples for their gods; we build school-houses for our children. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z Later on I also tried to read modern philosophers; I read Schopenhauer and others, but I much preferred the ancients. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z The marble on this side of the mountain is harder than that on the south, which alone was worked by the ancients. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Ibn Qutayba, who died towards the end of the ninth century a.d., was the first critic of importance to declare that ancients and moderns should be judged on their merits without regard to their age. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The ancients looked upon sobriety as a bent bow, that required occasional relaxation. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z |
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