Ancients

Examples

• The information the ancients didn't have was very voluminous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He has a clearer conception of the divisions of science and of their relation to the mind of man than was possible to the ancients. Plato. The Republic.
• We need not dwell on what the ancients produced in this line. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I studied the wisdom of the ancients, and gazed on the happy walls that sheltered the beloved of my soul. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Cast Iron Made by Ancients, Disused for 15 Centuries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Recourse was had to the inventions of the ancients, from whom the paddle-wheel was taken, to find some other means of propulsion. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The age of inventions in the times of the ancients rested mainly upon simple applications of these mechanical powers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The name was applied by the ancients to a period of about forty days, the hottest season of the year, at the time of the rising of Sirius, the dog-star. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The ancients wore their diamonds uncut because they could not find a substance that would grind or cut them. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Like the ancients in general, he had no idea of the gradual perfectibility of man or of the education of the human race. Plato. The Republic.
• The ancients usually ranked good fortune among those circumstances of life which indicate merit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The ancients considered the Pillars of Hercules the head of navigation and the end of the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We have some idea how the ancients looked and felt and wrote; the abundant evidence takes us back to the cave-dwellers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The appeals of Confucius to the wisdom of the ancients are always quoted to clinch this suggestion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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