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Example sentences for "later writers"

  • Gregory had carefully distinguished between genuineness and canonicity; but this important distinction was not seldom disregarded by later writers.

  • Of all the accounts of these Colossian false teachers, I have found none more satisfactory than that of Neander, whose opinions are followed in the main by the most sober of later writers.

  • The influence of this great name is perceptible in the statements of later writers.

  • Later writers called it Satioeis, and some writers Saphnioeis.

  • At a still greater distance from Pelion, according to later writers, were Magnetes, beginning from the people, that were subject to Eumelus.

  • The preceding classes include all the original authorities, that is, all founded on information not accessible to later writers.

  • It is therefore Nova Scotia, of which the descriptions given by later writers answer to that given by the ancient Northmen of Markland.

  • But whatever the precise number of the heroes of Marathon, we have ample testimony for the general fact that it was so trifling when compared with the Persian armament, as almost to justify the exaggeration of later writers.

  • The writings of the earlier philosophers are lost, and their ideas are to be found in later writers, and in compilations like the Biographies of Diogenes Laertius (3d cent.

  • The mounds in Florida attracted the early notice of John and William Bartram, and are described by them in their Travels, and have been dwelt upon by later writers.

  • Later writers use gan both for singular and plural.

  • The Columbiad was a grandiose performance, and has been the theme of much ridicule by later writers.

  • Some of the poems which have been attributed to Chaucer and printed in editions of his works, as the Court of Love, the Flower and the Leaf, the Cuckow and the Nightingale, are now regarded by many scholars as the work of later writers.

  • It was written in sonorous, stately and somewhat involved periods, in a Latin rather than an English idiom, and it influenced strongly the diction of later writers, such as Milton and Sir Thomas Browne.

  • Madaini's History of the Caliphs is the best, if not the oldest, published before Tabari; but this book is known only by the excerpts given by later writers, particularly Baladhuri and Tabari.

  • These were much used by later writers, and we have many extracts from them, but none of the works themselves except a sort of romance based on his account of the death of Hosain (Husain) of which Wustenfeld has given a translation.

  • All his numerous other treatises have perished, save one, and we have only their titles handed down, with general indications of their contents, by later writers, especially Pappus.

  • Later writers do not agree with him as to the size of the earth,[442] nor admit his measurement.

  • It was extensively read and transcribed, and exercised a powerful influence on later writers down to the end of the 14th century.

  • Unquestionable evidence of the knowledge of the poem on the part of later writers is scarce, but distinct echoes of its diction appear in the chronicle ascribed to Robert of Gloucester, written in rhymed septenary measures about 1300.

  • The Mardians of Herodotus are also called Amardians by later writers, who place them in the West, among the mountains which divide Persia from Elam.

  • The Parthians are the Pahlav of Moses of Khorene, the Pehlew of later writers.

  • It never became so popular as Livy's history, but it was evidently much used by later writers, and Justin's summary was much read in the Middle Ages.

  • Twelve Tables and whose wisdom in regard to legal matters are mentioned with praise by later writers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another day; beneath the; each cupful; grafted trees; here shown; inverted position; later addition; later ages; later chapter; later development; later editions; later known; later lecture; later letter; later life; later page; later period; later work; later works; later writers; later years; lateral buds; nigh unto; point about; prepared for; young gentlewoman