Meanings of greater antiquity in английском

But new evidences came in, showing a yet greater antiquity of man.

Few families in Europe could boast a greater antiquity than his.

The first subterranean temples cannot therefore be of a greater antiquity.

All, however, tends to greater and greater antiquity of man.

There are many rivers whose celebrity is of much greater antiquity than that of the Rhine.

Christianity seems to be a composite religion, made up of fragments of religions of far greater antiquity.

This arrangement is ascribed to Theseus; but there was another division of the people of still greater antiquity.

But stone weapons, some of rude form and others highly finished, prove the greater antiquity of the camp.

Of greater antiquity, but much more easily discovered, are the bride stones close at hand on Sleights Moor.

This singular coincidence, in nations having then but little intercourse, would seem to infer some common origin of greater antiquity.

We have removed to a greater antiquity, but have not got rid of the question of the origin of Mexican civilization.

The Swiss, as is natural from their greater antiquity, richer recollections, and perhaps from their geographical position, are more national than the Americans.

Classical has more to defend it than Romantic, because it has greater antiquity and, in one sense, has been used with less arbitrariness.

For there would be something better than He, having perfect goodness, which could seem to be of greater antiquity and eminence than He.

They were, in fact, the remains of some ancient and long-disused fortifications, of far greater antiquity than the edifice which had been built over them.

But the Dance of Death had been performed before "Every Man" was written; and dances in churches and churchyards were of yet greater antiquity.