 | American literature - 1808 - 356 pages
...created ; and was insensibly changed to a worse, as men grew depraved. Hence the poetical descriptions of the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age ; which last is always supposed to be the present age. Peace gives the human faculties liberty to expand themselves,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - Latin language - 1846 - 354 pages
...classes, with reference to the purity of the language at the time in which they lived. These are called the Golden age, the Silver age, the Brazen age, and the Iron age. The Golden age extends from the time of the second Punic war, AU 514, to the death of Augustus, AD... | |
 | Taylor - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1850 - 116 pages
...they were called Evangelists, the term signifying a ' bringer of good tidings.' 4 AGES OF THE WORLD. The Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Brazen Age, and the Iron Age. 9 4 STAGES OF LIFE. Infancy, Youth, Manhood and Old Age. 4 DIALECTS SPOKEN IN GREECE. The Attic Dialect,... | |
 | Peter Bullions - Latin language - 1850 - 358 pages
...classes, with reference to the purity of the lan-guage at the time in which they lived. These are called the Golden age, the Silver age, the Brazen age, and the Iron age. The Golden age extends from the time of the second Punic war, AU 514, to the death of Augustus, AD... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1855 - 360 pages
...prefix, prejudice, predetermine." Some men distinguish the period of the world into four ages ; viz., the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age. Logicians say that the operations of the mind are three ; namely, 1. Simple apprehension ; 2. Judgment... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 364 pages
...prefix, prejudice, predetermine." Some men distinguish the period of the world into four ages; viz., the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age. Logicians say that the operations of the mind are three; namely, 1. Simple apprehension; 2. Judgment;... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1856 - 188 pages
..."prefix, prejudice, predetermine." Some men distinguish the period of the world into four ages ; viz., the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age. Logicians say that the operations of the mind are three ; namely, 1. Simple apprehension; 2. Judgment;... | |
 | John Wilson - Abbreviations, English - 1856 - 360 pages
...prefix, prejudice, predetermine." Some men distinguish the period of the world into four ages ; viz., the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age. Logicians say that the operations of the mind are three; namely, 1. Simple apprehension; 2. Judgment;... | |
 | Mary Ann Dwight - Art - 1866 - 290 pages
...it becomes easy to comprehend the signification of the four ages, represented by the four metals : the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Brazen Age, and the Iron Age. Gold is the symbol of divine love revealed to man. Silver, by its whiteness, designates divine wisdom.... | |
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Greeks thought there had been four ages — the Golden age, the Silver age, the Brazen age, and the Iron age — and that people had been getting worse in each of them. 
