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If the Church derived her rights from the extinct Roman Caesars, how could the Teuton conquerors interfere with those rights? If she had owed allegiance to Constantine or Theodosius, she certainly owed none to Dietrich, Alboin, or Clovis. She did not hold their lands of them; and would pay them, if she could avoid it, neither tax nor toll.
Not one, I am sure, of these worthy folk has the slightest thought of impiety." "You know not what you say, girl," the Puritan rejoined sharply. "The evil spirit is not extinct, and these growing abominations prove it to be again raising its baleful crest to pollute and destroy.
When we remark that Greek physics soon became stationary or extinct, may we not observe also that there have been and may be again periods in the history of modern philosophy which have been barren and unproductive?
Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow. Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
If I were considering merely the cultivators of geology, I should say that the doctrine of the former co-existence of Man with many extinct mammalia had already gone through these three phases in the progress of every scientific truth towards acceptance.
It haunts me somehow, as if it had been familiar of old." "And me," said the young lady. "It was an old name, hereabouts," observed the Warden, "but has been long extinct, a cottage name, not a gentleman's. I doubt not that Oglethorpes sleep in many of these undistinguished graves."
Cruelty and forced labor decimated the natives, but in the course of time this abuse was remedied, thanks largely to the Spanish bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, and instead of forming a miserable remnant of an almost extinct race, as they do in the United States, the Indians freely intermarried with the Spaniards, whom they always outnumbered.
"Behind us, the light of the circle is extinct, but there we are guarded from all save the brutal and soulless destroyers. But before! but before ! see, two of the lamps have died out! see the blank of the gap in the ring Guard that breach, there the demons will enter." "Not a drop is there left in his vessel by which to replenish the lamps on the ring."
"Well, do you remember," continued Edestone, "that when we scrambled up over the next rock ridge we looked into a regular bowl-shaped valley that had the appearance of a crater of an extinct volcano?" "Yes," said Lawrence. "Well, 'Specs' is there in that valley, where perhaps no human being has ever been before. I sent him there for that reason.
Near the Tombigby River, to the east of Meridian, were many thousands of bales of cotton, belonging to the Confederate Government and in charge of a treasury agent. It seemed to me a duty to protect public property and transfer it to the United States, successors by victory to the extinct Confederacy.
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