 Here we may place a distinct epoch in the continuous history of our race ; the end of the old world and the beginning of the new ; — not sharply defined but gradually commingling, the former fading away as the latter brightens into being.  Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions - Page 15by Edward Everett - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Asiatick Society (Calcutta, India) - Asia - 1801 - 668 pages
...AJJtnchickal, "that the reproduction takes up another, and that a " third AJJenchickat intervenes between the end of " the old world and the beginning of the new." " XXXIV. BEFORE we proceed to explain the " opinions of the Burmas concerning the delt ruction " of... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 600 pages
...heathen look no higher but somewhat darkly concerning Noah, who was their two-faced Janus (who saw the end of the old world, and the beginning of the new) having, as poets feigned, stolen fire from heaven, and brought it amongst the sons of men, it occasioned... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 574 pages
...heathen look no higher butjaomewhat darkly concerning Noah, who was their two-faced Janus (who saw the end of the old world, and the beginning of the new) having, as poets feigned, stolen Are from heaven, and brought it amongst the sons of men, it occasioned... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Mythology - 1816 - 618 pages
...space of an Assenchiekat, that the reproduction takes up another, and that a third intervenes between the end of the old world and the beginning of the new. At the end of each of the sixty four changes in the life of man, which take place during the existence... | |
 | Edward Everett - Bible - 1848 - 586 pages
...irruption of Asiatic barbarity, at the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, in the middle of the 15th century. Here we may place a distinct epoch in the...opinions, and morals. While darkness still brooded over mediaeval Europe, a discovery was made by the rude chemistry of the day, (I allude of course to the... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1859 - 564 pages
...man, the entrance of the Christian religion into history is the most momentous of all events. It is the end of the old world and the beginning of the new. It was a great idea of Dionysius " the Little," to date our era from the birth of the Saviour. Jesus... | |
 | Philip Schaff - Reformation - 1870 - 566 pages
...man, the entrance of the Christian religion into history is the most momentous of all events. It is the end of the old world and the beginning of the new. It was a great idea of Dionysius " the Little," to date our era from the birth of the Saviour. Jesus... | |
 | Universalism - 1889 - 540 pages
...dating the years from the birth of Christ which we call the Christian Era As Schaff says : " It is the end of .the old world and the beginning of the new. . . . Jesus Christ, the God, [divine] man, prophet, priest and king of mankind, is, in fact, the centre... | |
 | Andrew Martin Fairbairn - Bible - 1893 - 590 pages
...Northern as the political and administrative was Italian. The questions and controversies that mark the end of the old world and the beginning of the new are grouped round the names of B;tda and Alcuin, Paschasius Radbertus and Ratramnus, Rabanus Maurus... | |
 | Percy Gardner - Church history - 1907 - 304 pages
...Northern as the political and administrative was Italian. The questions and controversies that mark the end of the old world and the beginning of the new are grouped round the names of Baeda and Alcuin, Paschasius Radbertus and Ratramnus, Rabanus Maurus... | |
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