Yet if we compare the older Reptiles and Batrachians, the older Fish, the older Cephalopods, and the eocene Mammals, with the more
recent members of the same classes, we must admit that there is some truth in the remark.
Even the vexation consequent upon his
recent adventure had vanished from his mind; and he could join in the hearty laughter, which any allusion to it excited in Mr.
If the periods be separated by short intervals, the measures to be reviewed and rectified will have been of
recent date, and will be connected with all the circumstances which tend to vitiate and pervert the result of occasional revisions.
Auxiliaries, which are the other useless arm, are employed when a prince is called in with his forces to aid and defend, as was done by Pope Julius in the most
recent times; for he, having, in the enterprise against Ferrara, had poor proof of his mercenaries, turned to auxiliaries, and stipulated with Ferdinand, King of Spain,[*] for his assistance with men and arms.
I have tried to expose to the view of the public more distinctly than is commonly done, one of the characters of the
recent past.
So often have you asked me about my former existence--about my mother, about Pokrovski, about my sojourn with Anna Thedorovna, about my more
recent misfortunes; so often have you expressed an earnest desire to read the manuscript in which (God knows why) I have recorded certain incidents of my life, that I feel no doubt but that the sending of it will give you sincere pleasure.
Almost within an arm's length was a little depression in the earth; it had been filled by a
recent rain--a pool of clear water.
When I last saw this interesting ruin of ancient days, one of the very few remaining examples of Saxon fortification, I was strongly impressed with the desire of tracing out a sort of theory on the subject, which, from some
recent acquaintance with the architecture of the ancient Scandinavians, seemed to me peculiarly interesting.
As his scouts were out one day, they came upon the traces of a
recent band of savages.
Angell in an article called "A Reconsideration of James's Theory of Emotion in the Light of
Recent Criticisms."* In this article Angell defends James's theory and to me--though I speak with diffidence on a question as to which I have little competence--it appears that his defence is on the whole successful.
"You perhaps know more of her
recent history than I do.
Indeed, curiously enough, my
recent haste to have them answered had suddenly died down.