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Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but… — Charles Lamb
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not… — Petrarch
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing… — Pope Leo I
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. — William Harvey
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no… — Christopher Dawson
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church… — Henry Edward Manning
Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of… — Charles Lyell
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which… — Martin Chemnitz
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements… — Hermann Weyl
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity. — Basil Bunting
From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all. — Laozi
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something… — Nicholas Meyer
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and… — Pierre Loti
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts.… — Svante Arrhenius
...the holy men sat in an atmosphere reeking of antiquity, so thick with the dust of ages that you can't see through it -nor can… — Gertrude Bell
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in… — John B. Watson
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may… — George Orwell
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity. — Josh McDowell

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