Which preposition to use with moderns
[Footnote BN: The word Ecclesia being more modern in the Latin tongue than Basilica, the Romansh word Baselga derived from the latter is an additional proof of the antiquity of this language.
" A "BATTLESHIP ON WHEELS" Just before the war France added to its equipment the most modern of fighting devices.
Chopin is another composer who, although he died in 1849 (Schubert died in 1828), is as modern as the masters just named.
But the pathos of it is as modern to us as it was to the Athenians.
On the other hand, I think it must be admitted that a belief in the continuity of the modern with the ancient chalk has nothing to do with the proposition that we can, in any sense whatever, be said to be still living in the Cretaceous epoch.
THE TROUT.This fish, though esteemed by the moderns for its delicacy, was little regarded by the ancients.
This writer gives several cases within his own knowledge, in which music has been efficacious; but the consideration as well as the honour of these, more properly belong to modern than to ancient music.
By the greater number of historians the fall of Constantinople under the Moslem power is considered as the decisive event which separates the modern from the mediaeval period.
" "Most of all, because there is nothing modern about her.
We feel in their presence that they are the oldest things; the most ancient books, or buildings, or sculptures are modern by their side.
The fatigue and hardship of real life, in short, is represented by the ancients under the uniform image of heat, and by the moderns under that of cold.
"We've been decently modern up to now, and we won't go back to the elemental things so late in the day.
This is a pompous eulogium; but let us suspend our opinion, and hear that of Plutarch, who, being an ancient, well deserves our attention, at least, after we have heard the moderns before him.
And I think there is an obvious fallacy in the bitter contrasts drawn by some moderns between the aversion to Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the popularity of some such joke as "Dear Old Charlie.
