The casualties of all the armies in the field during the month of November exceeded those of any previous period of the war.

The English Church, during the troubled reign of Stephen, had become more completely under the papal dominion than at any previous period of its history.

The danger which confronted the British peoples was never so great in any previous period as it was during the year 1917 when the submarine menace was at its height, and it may be hoped that the lessons to be learned from the history of those months will never be forgotten.

The Ayur Veda, written nine hundred years before Hippocrates was born, sums up the knowledge of previous periods relating to obstetric surgery, to general pathology, to the treatment of insanity, to infantile diseases, to toxicology, to personal hygiene, and to diseases of the generative functions.

In this city, after her ten years' exile, Madame de Staël reigned in prouder state than at any previous period of her life.

We are to remember that, in previous periods, the number of readers was comparatively small; and that, with the exception of a few writers like Langland and Bunyan, authors wrote largely for the upper classes.

At his death there were more distinguished men in all departments of politics, literature, science, and art in Great Britain than at any previous period, and the condition of the people was more ameliorated than had been known since the Reformation.

At no previous period of his life was his fame so extended or his moral influence so great.

It had already, in the course of the previous period, been in great part transferred from the general to the burgesses;(13) in this period came the further step, that the whole staff-officers of the regular yearly levythe twenty-four military tribunes of the four ordinary legionswere nominated in the -comitia tributa-.

At no previous period had the Latin nation been on more friendly terms both politically and personally with the Roman government.

Now that he had vanquished all forces under arms he poured out upon the unarmed all the wrath he had nourished against them during the previous period.

This disposition has also, I am persuaded, become more general with the people of England than at any previous period.

Yet, the proportion did not differ very much from that of the previous period, as the first Negroes were not chiefly field hands but to a considerable extent house servants, whom masters often taught to read and write.

Mechanical Progress.%The mechanical progress made by our countrymen since the war surpasses that of any previous period.

The popular religion was that composite of heathenisms already sketched in considering the previous period.

Each civilization has consisted of a cluster of empires, nations and peoples which at some previous period have enjoyed independence and sovereignty.

The toiling millions whose daily labor furnishes the supply of food and raiment and all the necessaries and comforts of life are receiving higher wages and more steady and permanent employment than in any other country or at any previous period of our own history.