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What were the earliest articles of import, may be inferred partly from the objects found in the primitive tombs, particularly those at Caere, partly from indications preserved in the language and institutions of the Romans, partly and chiefly from the stimulus given to Italian industry; for of course they bought foreign manufactures for a considerable time before they began to imitate them.
The commander picked up one of the heavier bits of primitive jewelry and tossed it in his hand. Then he stood up and looked around the town square. The company had occupied the town for several weeks. The stored grains in the community warehouse, plus the relaxation the men had had, plus the relative security of the town, had put most of the men back into condition.
A nation must, so to speak, live close to its own life, be intimate and sympathetic with natural events. That is what gives understanding, and justifies the observation that the intuitions of scientific discovery and the artist's perceptions are closely related. It is perhaps not altogether without significance for us that primitive science and poetry were indistinguishable.
Nor can we dissociate the ceremonies observed in spring from the harvest ceremonies; as Dr. What, then, are these "ancient modes of thought" and what the primitive customs based upon them? We may, I think, classify them in four groups.
In this primitive community she would probably receive several offers of marriage the first time she sat at table in the public dining room. It was he, too, who advised her never to go out unless she was deeply veiled. Joan laughed at the reason but followed his counsel.
Jack is a good deal of a gentleman, you see, albeit primitive in his methods of showing his discomfort. "He'll soon stop," said Bee, encouragingly. "He feels strange at first." But he didn't stop.
The attempted tower was no doubt earlier; and it may have been a building of the same type, but there is no reason to believe that any remnant, or indeed any trace, of this primitive edifice, has continued to exist to our day.
Temples in the proper sense of the term were still at this time unknown, and accordingly the Palatine has nothing of that sort to show belonging to the primitive age.
He withdrew into a separate apartment, and dined with a new refinement. A hitherto unknown variety of food covered the table, served on pewter, china, or silver, instead of the primitive trencher.
And, throwing open a door at my side, she displayed a small, but comfortable room, in which I could dimly see a bed, an immense bureau, and a shadowy looking-glass in a dark, old-fashioned frame. "I live in very primitive fashion," she resumed, leading the way into the dining-room; "but I mean to be comfortable and make others so."
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