Again, "the good and just," throughout the book, is the expression used in referring to the self-righteous of
modern times,-- those who are quite sure that they know all that is to be known concerning good and evil, and are satisfied that the values their little world of tradition has handed down to them, are destined to rule mankind as long as it lasts.
No one would either ask or answer such a question in
modern times. But in the age of Socrates it was only by an effort that the mind could rise to a general notion of virtue as distinct from the particular virtues of courage, liberality, and the like.
One of these seats was at present occupied by Cedric the Saxon, who, though but in rank a thane, or, as the Normans called him, a Franklin, felt, at the delay of his evening meal, an irritable impatience, which might have become an alderman, whether of ancient or of
modern times.
One of them, whom I by no means thought the best, has given us a play, known to all the world, which I am almost ready to think with Zola is the greatest play of
modern times; or if it is not so, I should be puzzled to name the modern drama that surpasses "La Morte Civile" of Paolo Giacometti.
The Russian war should have been the most popular war of
modern times: it was a war of good sense, for real interests, for the tranquillity and security of all; it was purely pacific and conservative.
His Olympia seemed to me the greatest picture of
modern times, and Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe moved me profoundly.
Yards, furlongs, miles arose; and on went old John in the pleasantest manner possible, trimming off an exuberance in this place, shearing away some liberty of speech or action in that, and conducting himself in his small way with as much high mightiness and majesty, as the most glorious tyrant that ever had his statue reared in the public ways, of ancient or of
modern times.
The means of revenue, which have been so greatly multiplied by the increase of gold and silver and of the arts of industry, and the science of finance, which is the offspring of
modern times, concurring with the habits of nations, have produced an entire revolution in the system of war, and have rendered disciplined armies, distinct from the body of the citizens, the inseparable companions of frequent hostility.
The scheme of representation, as a substitute for a meeting of the citizens in person, being at most but very imperfectly known to ancient polity, it is in more
modern times only that we are to expect instructive examples.
La knew that she was beautiful--and she was beautiful, not by the standards of prehistoric Atlantis alone, but by those of
modern times was La physically a creature of perfection.
It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in
modern times.
Too much, however, has been made of this question both in ancient and in
modern times. There is a stage of criticism in which all works, whether of nature or of art, are referred to design.
