"Chronologically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are, which do require a brief reference—the boundaries of Maine, of Oregon, the Isthmian Canal, Cleveland and Venezuela, Roosevelt and Alaska; and these disputes we shall now take up together, before we deal with the very large matter of our trouble with England during the Civil War. Chronologically, of course, Venezuela and Alaska fall after the Civil War; but they belong to the same class to which Maine and Oregon belong. Together, all of these incidents and controversies form a group in which the underlying permanence of British good-will towards ...
— A Straight Deal - or The Ancient Grudge • Owen Wister
... on a more extensive scale and a more systematic plan than any previous work of the kind, a lexicon of the Chinese language, containing over forty thousand characters, with numerous illustrative phrases chronologically arranged, the spelling of each character according to the method introduced by Buddhist teachers and first used in the third century, the tones, various readings, etc., etc., altogether a great work and still without a ...
— China and the Manchus • Herbert A. Giles
... study being to take things in the order of their creation, so in order to understand the "character of savage grandeur and nave originality" which has been attributed to this style, it will be best to take up these MSS. chronologically. At the same time, if anyone merely wishes to know what the style is like at its best, Dr. Rahn must be his guide, as the Golden Psalter which he has selected for study is as splendid an example as perhaps may be found in the whole ...
— Illuminated Manuscripts • John W. Bradley
... revolutionist who is attacking the established order. And yet to the moderately philosophic observer the making of the law and its enforcement belong to the same process. The difficulty is that though united logically they are often widely separated chronologically. ...
— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers
... and comprehensive record of my sensations. I shall keep it up to the end. Such notes being dry and sometimes confusing I have purposely omitted them from this narrative. But there are some things that must be given to the world. I shall pick out the salient parts and give them chronologically. ...
— The Blind Spot • Austin Hall and Homer Eon Flint
... is a list of the principal artists and engravers, chronologically arranged, who made ...
— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards
... belongs chronologically to the next generation, but musically he has more in common with Paisiello than with Rossini. His principal claim to immortality rests upon the fact that a performance of his opera 'Eleonora' inspired Beethoven with the idea of writing ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild
... 1748 he brought out his Roderick Random, which at once made a "hit". The subsequent events of his life may be presented, chronologically, in a bird's-eye view:— ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray |
