ancients

• Thanks to them, the hard law of the ancients has been abrogated. —  Saint Augustin
• A primary product of decoding the symbology of the ancients is the ability to verifiably establish the origins, purposes, and messages of pivotal ancient texts; before they were recast as religious canons at the dawn of this epoch of civilization. —  GetReligion
• In the midst of the present village stand the remains of one and the other of their buildings; and thus the hydropathic system of the ancients is allied with the practice of the modern Académie de Médecine. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
• Any attempt to regard him as an exception results in the calamities which must always attend presumption and ignorance The well balanced temperament, the temperamentum temperatum_, of the ancients is an ideal condition in which there is in fact no temperament, all the organs of the body being perfectly in harmony, and exhibiting no preponderance of one over the other. —  How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
• Universe to the ancients was a living thing, 596-m. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

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