How long this era existed, science has failed to demonstrate, but it passed away, and solid land marked the next era of the earth's progress.

In fact, in those times there was throughout England, in all the churches, a decay of faith and a tendency to unbelief; against which a few men made noble protest, till the religious Revival, led by Whitefield and Wesley, inaugurated a happier era.

The literary portraits of Socrates furnished by himself, and the writings of Plato, are among the most precious monuments of antiquity, and the life and death of such a man form a memorable era in the moral and intellectual history of mankind.

Characters were beginning to decline at the same time that talent did, and Michelangelo, who, as it were, opened this grand era, was destined to survive alone, like those lofty summits that first receive the morning light, and which are still lit up while all around has grown obscure and night is already profound.

Then, under the shadow of this benediction, began an era of prosperity.

Hippocrates introduced a new era in medicine, which before his time had been monopolized by the priests.

Charles XIII was one of the most unsympathetic of Swedish kings, but his reign marks a new period in Swedish history, commencing the era of constitutional government.

At no period is this more evident than in the five centuries immediately preceding the Christian era.

Dinner constituted the great era of the day.

They aspired to bring to a close the French era of revolutions by establishing the free government which France had in 1789 promised herself as the consequence and political guarantee of the social revolution which she was completing."

We have entered a fresh era of time for good and evil; the fact is patent in every sermon we hear, in every book we read, in every invention, even the most paltry, which we see registered.

"[40] Translating into action what had long been restricted to academic discussion, these philanthropic workers ushered in a new era in the uplift of the blacks, making abolition more of a reality.

Political changes were not the sole cause of the rapid degeneracy in letters that followed the Augustan era of Rome.

This act ended an era, the Diaz era, in Mexican history.

dijo colérica su interlocutora, que no era una vieja; ¡Teobaldo de Montagut el del cuento!...

This was in the year 622, and the flight is called the Hegira,from which the East dates its era, in the fifty-third year of the Prophet's life.

Instead, therefore, of establishing a new era, the Congress did its utmost to restore the old one.

Then dawned the era of David Livingstone.

The brilliant style in which the ships had been carried into action, the steadiness and rapidity with which they had been handled, and the fatal accuracy of their fire, on nearly every occasion, produced a new era in naval warfare.

It has been now done, and I shall be widely mistaken if this does not prove a new era in our Indian philology.

By transition, I mean the era of the change from French to English supremacy.

It recalled to me the dark robber era of the Ohio River, and the tales of blood and strife which I had read of.

"This mission consists in closing the era of revolutions, by satisfying the legitimate needs of the People, and by protecting them from subversive passions.

Were it not authenticated by the most undeniable testimonies, it would appear incredible that the impostures of the disciples of Aesculapius, and the common faith in his regenerative powers, should have survived with equal potency and acceptation during the ages immediately succeeding the Christian era.

That famous treaty has also been made the foundation of all subsequent treaties between the European nations, and created an era in modern history.