of a former period
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What a wide contrast between such education and that of a former period!
From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Johann Jakob Hottinger
So analytical, so refined is our age, that singing sometimes becomes a sort of musical declamation, but, unfortunately, without that power to declaim possessed by the actors and often the opera-singers of a former period.
From Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills
The types and symbols of a former period were blessed to the souls of men, as well as the fuller revelations of succeeding times.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
But it is hard to persuade reasonable people to swallow the abominations of a former period.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I mention the four heroines of a former period, Valérie, Becky, Emma, Anna, not because they are all disagreeable, but because they are my pets in fiction.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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