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• Still in this instance we have so many distinct authorities--eyewitnesses of the facts--and some of them belonging to times when scientific accuracy had begun to be appreciated, that we must be very in credulous if we do not accept their witness, so far as it is consentient, and not intrinsically very improbable According to Herodotus, an eye-witness, and the earliest authority on the subject the enceinte of Babylon was a square, 120 stades (about 14 miles) each way--the entire circuit of the wall being thus 56 miles, and the area enclosed within them falling little short of 200 square miles. —  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
• If he were to find their character to be invariable, and peculiar to each of the boards put before him, he would learn that before he trusts his subject to the canvass, he should question himself as to the sentiment he intends it to express, and what combination of colours would be consentient or dissentient to it This will certainly account for the colours of the old (particularly the historical) painters being so much at variance with common nature, sometimes glaringly at variance with the locality and position of the objects represented." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
• But the consentient witness of the MSS. is even extraordinary. —  The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
• Their authority for this reading is the consentient testimony of THE FOUR OLDEST MSS. —  The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
• [Note: Of many consentient utterances I select this one by a prominent —  The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915

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