"Contemporaneity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gave such an air of contemporaneity to his stories of the great Greek professor that it seemed at times as if they were the relations of one who had actually known Porson. So vividly did he portray the marvels of that compound of thirst and scholarship that no one had the heart to laugh ...
— The Bibliotaph - and Other People • Leon H. Vincent
... to render their most difficult results perspicuous, and the driest attractive,)—affirmed in the Lectures, delivered by him in Lincoln's Inn Hall, that the law of association as established in the contemporaneity of the original impressions, formed the basis of all true psychology; and that any ontological or metaphysical science, not contained in such (that is, an empirical) psychology, was but a web of abstractions and ...
— Biographia Literaria • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... M. Joly, by his excavations in the Nabrigas cave, established the contemporaneity of man with the cave bear, and a little later M. Pomel announced his belief that plan had witnessed the last eruptions of the ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... 328: See my Beginnings of New England, chap. i. How richly suggestive to an American is the contemporaneity of Rubruquis ...
— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske
... identical with European species, or very nearly allied to them," Sir C. Lyell says it is "highly probable the Claiborne beds agree in age with the central or Bracklesham group of England." When we find contemporaneity alleged on the strength of a community no greater than that which sometimes exists between strata of widely-different ages in the same country, it seems as though the above-quoted caution had been forgotten. It appears to ...
— Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I • Herbert Spencer |
