The population increased with the growth of the herds, with agriculture and the beginnings of the handicrafts.
The Assembly issued bills of credit, and they may be said to be the beginnings of paper money in our country, as such notes had never before been used in the colony.
Yet the beginnings of his career in the world were unromantic to the last degree.
In the earliest beginningsof human development, progress, with its consequent accumulation, is slow, and if we allow a rate of 3 feet of deposit for each thousand years, we shall probably not be very far wrong.
The art of glazing pottery was not a native Cretan, but an Egyptian art; it is in full use in Egypt from the very beginnings of the First Dynasty.
To this period belong the beginningsof the second palace at Knossos.
Even as it is, the discovery of these tablets has altered the whole conception of the relative ages of the various early beginnings of writing in the Eastern Mediterranean area.
The primitive pictographs on the bead-seals of this period mark the beginnings of this form of Minoan script, which persisted until Late Minoan I.
A similar mode of representing deity occurs in the earlier stages of many religions, and the sacred pillar set up by Jacob at Bethel may be instanced as an example of its presence in the beginnings of the Hebrew worship.
In these establishments, which were formed by the shade of two palm-trees, twenty pupils received the beginnings of knowledge.
When it is remembered how easily an organised army, even though it be in a bad condition, can stamp out the beginnings of revolt among a population, the courage of their resolve must be admired.
For it is clear that the beginnings of these instincts are also present in the animal world.
Just as little could the first men possess and deliver to their offspring a remembrance of the first beginnings of their own existence.
He has the beginningsof the theory worked out, but it'll be awhile yet before it'll be of any practical use.
If we examine the religious beliefs of extant races, the lowest in material culture, the best representatives of palaeolithic man, we are still a long way from the beginnings of human speculation and belief.
In a fertile valley, lying between two rivers and surrounded by hills, he laid the beginnings of the great abbey which afterwards bore his name and became one of the most famous monasteries in Christendom.
Pent behind them she fancied a hundred things; she saw on the curtain of blackness drawn faces and staring eyes; she made of the faintest murmur that entered now a roar of voices, and now the hoarse beginnings of a scream.
Already, in some European countries, in France, in Prussia, one traces some beginnings of an arrangement for the Literary Class; indicating the gradual possibility of such.
For the Miracle plays did not spring all at once to life, they began gradually, and the beginnings can be traced as far back as the ninth century.
And then from its beginnings we will follow our English Literature through the ages.
It is to Ireland that we must go for the very beginnings of our Literature, for the Roman conquest did not touch Ireland, and the English, who later conquered and took possession of Britain, hardly troubled the Green Isle.
These stories then form the beginnings of what is called our Literature.
To trace the English drama from its beginnings we must go a long way back from the reigns of Henry VII and of Henry VIII, down to which the life of Dunbar has brought us.
In this chapter I am going to talk about these beginnings of the English theater and of its literature.
The first eighty years of this century may roughly be said to have covered the entire period of the first age, while the last two decades may be regarded as having witnessed the beginnings of the second.
Theophilus the Goth might tell them the modest beginnings of Teutonic Christianity among his countrymen of the Crimean undercliff.
And if the isolation of heresy fostered the beginnings of a native literature, it also blighted every hope of future growth.
It must have been about half an hour later that the first beginnings of a plan of action came to me.
I was entirely without a plan, without the very beginningsof a plan, to help me cope with this appalling situation.
It is as if you had come face to face with something behind civilisation, behind humanity, something deeper down still among the dim beginnings of creation.
History finds already in its beginnings a thin network of trading and slaving flung over the world of the Normal Social Life, a network whose strands are the early roads, whose knots are the first towns and the first courts.
But I would add that so far representative government has not had even the beginnings of a fair trial.
They are the beginnings of what is quite conceivably a great and complex reconstructive effort.
Beattie Crozier and Mr. Benjamin Kidd recall works that impress one as large-scale sketches of a proposed science rather than concrete beginnings and achievements.
It is a thing that has grown up and elaborated itself out of very simple beginnings in the course of a century or so.
During this time also life evolved from its inferred beginnings in the late Archean to the complicated, finely developed, and in man's case highly mentalized and spiritualized organization of To-day.
There follows a brief catalogue of the slender and altogether fortuitous beginnings of such an exhibit.
It really consists of two valleys joined end on at their beginnings on Flattop Mountain; McDonald Creek flowing south, Little Kootenai flowing north.
Life was then so nearly at its beginningsthat the forms which Walcott found in the Siyeh limestone were not at first fully accepted as organic.
In this way many of the largest and most progressive Negro Baptist churches of the South had their beginnings amid the vicissitudes of life peculiar to a land of human bondage.
For almost a generation earlier than this, Negro education had been launched with much betterbeginnings in the county of Kanawha.
He was certainly first to plant a Baptist church at Shelburn, as well as a number of feeble beginnings elsewhere.
A mere glance at the Negro schools in the northern section will show that these beginnings were confined to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and its branches.
When molecules are so combined together as to form the film on the under side of a jellyfish, the elements of mind-stuff which go along with them are so combined as to form the faint beginnings of Sentience.
No one pretends that we have even the beginnings of a plant psychology.
Men had learned to reflect, and there had come into existence at least the beginnings of what we now sometimes rather loosely call the mental and moral sciences.
This obliged him to neglect the beginnings of a feverish illness, the natural consequence of which was that it grew very formidable, forced a long confinement upon him, and gave animal nature a shock which it never recovered.
But for the beginnings of the watch industry in England one must go back to a time before the days of Hooke and Huyghens, to the year 1627, the year of incorporation of the Worshipful Clock-makers, Company.
This does not mean that Switzerland had contained no watchmakers before Cusin's appearance, but we are considering the beginnings of a great industry and not mere instances of isolated workmen.
Stone and clay carved or molded into images, and the colored earth, smeared into designs upon his walls, gave him the beginnings of art.
The tyro makes his feeble beginnings in the sparsely settled portions of the country, but the polished orator is welcomed by large audiences at the centres of population, and wins money, fame, and possibly a high office.
The sore struggles and the small beginnings of that day compared with the greatness and abounding prosperity of the present.
But for the last two years and a half--like Seneca and Burrhus with Nero--he had noted the beginnings of tyranny.
It was afterwards to the interest of the Lecamus family to refer their beginnings to the time when they had acquired their principal estate, situated in that province.
And the beginnings of Christian chivalary were in that Greek bridling of the dark and the white horses.
