Economic activity, industry, and trade, deprived of the security of the first and second centuries, had declined at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries... Daphnis & Chloe - Page 365by Longus - 1916 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1828 - 924 pages
...Anglosaxon, writings two or three centuries older, in our public libraries, at least. But Taliesin lived at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century, and might have had the writings of Druid bards, (for, as we learn from Caesar, they had writing... | |
 | Unitarian churches - 1846 - 398 pages
...upon those by whom they were surrounded, when they had to rely upon the power of individual action. At the end of the fourth, and beginning of the fifth centuries, the body of believers had assumed the form of a regularly constituted society, and were henceforth... | |
 | Reuben Sherwood - Bible - 1840 - 90 pages
...No. III. jn getting ONE of those cited by Mr. S. This one, however, is the very last on his list, and lived at the end of the. fourth, and beginning of the fifth century. Of this one, the Doctor gives this brief account.* " St. Augustine says, — We own a heaven... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1842 - 964 pages
...hut eventually the Eastern Church desisted from its opposition to the practice of Lay Baptism, and at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries it was universally admitted in both the Eastern and Western Churches, under certain circumstances,... | |
 | England - 1844 - 820 pages
...but this date will by no means agreo with his constant imitations of Heliodorus, who is known to have lived at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century ; and Tatiiis, if not his contemporary, probably lived not long after him. Suidas (who calls... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1856 - 542 pages
...Bactrians, showing the extension of Buddhism beyond the confines of India; and St. Jerome, who, like Cyril, lived at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century, was evidently acquainted with Buddhistical legends, for he eays that Buddha was believed to... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1856 - 904 pages
...Bactrians, showing the extension of Buddhism beyond the confines of India; and St. Jerome, who, like Cyril, lived at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth century, was evidently acquainted with. Buddhistical legends, for he says that Buddha was believed... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...and heat of his imperial capital of Rome. The remains of the great Koman empire were here preserved at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries, when Rome was subject to continual invasions of the Barbarians, and at length conquered by them. The... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1870 - 832 pages
...invaders of Britain, but only as invaders of Gaul. But there seems quite evidence enough to show that, at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries, Britain was constantly ravaged by Saxon pirates. This U shown by the well-known phrases of Lima Saronicut... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1874 - 348 pages
...oils to be burned at the altars of the larger churches in Rome ; and St. Paulinus, of Nola, a writer at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth centuries, tells us how, in his time, wax tapers were made for church use, so as to shed fragrance as they burned.... | |
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