"Bygone" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... movement of the country and the times. The whole system was, however, pervaded by the monastic spirit, which had originally preserved all learning from annihilation, but which now kept it wrapped in the ancient cerecloths, and stiffening in the stony sarcophagus of a bygone age. The university of Louvain was the chief literary institution in the provinces. It had been established in 1423 by Duke John IV. of Brabant. Its government consisted of a President and Senate, forming a close corporation, which had received from the founder all his own authority, and the right ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... can meet them in the noon-day, I shall have no trouble in dispelling such vapourings. Our conversation with them would take this line. Tell me, do you subscribe to the Church which flourished in bygone ages? Certainly. Let us traverse, then, different countries and periods. What Church? The assembly of the faithful. What faithful? Their names are unknown, but it is certain that there have been many of them. Certain? to whom is it certain? To God Who says so! We, who ...
— Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name • Edmund Campion
... both of you by the hand and together we shall wander forth to explore the intricate wilderness of the bygone ages. ...
— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon
... of fact never weakens, his love of manly courage never relaxes, his joy in bygone time never fails, his zeal for the free institutions of England never falters, and his ...
— Halleck's New English Literature • Reuben P. Halleck
... hesitated for several minutes. Then, of a sudden, she lifted her tear-stained face towards me, all rosy with blushes and wearing that sweet look which I had known so well in the happy days bygone. ...
— The Seven Secrets • William Le Queux
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