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Usage examples of revival.

Since their institution or revival by Augustus, they had been celebrated by Claudius, by Domitian, and by Severus, and were now renewed the fifth time, on the accomplishment of the full period of a thousand years from the foundation of Rome.

But immediately the young Republic emerged from the stresses of adolescence, a missionary army took to the field again, and before long the Asbury revival was paling that of Whitefield, Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, not only in its hortatory violence but also in the length of its lists of slain.

Many revivals in the Protestant church, such as Methodism, were, like the original movement, returns to personal piety and biblicism.

Fison supposes that in the sexual licence and suspension of the rights of private property which characterise these festivals we have a reminiscence of a time when women and property were held in common by the community, and the motive for temporarily resuscitating these obsolete customs was a wish to propitiate the ancestral spirits, who were thought to be gratified by witnessing a revival of that primitive communism which they themselves had practised in the flesh so long ago.

Without him they would have relapsed, very probably, into that fearfully widespread mass of indifference which is not touched by any form of Christianity or religious revival, but which had responded to the practical, secular teaching of the singularly powerful secularist leader.

But it did not become well known until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when it was at the forefront of a revival in the medieval hermitic tradition and a hermitage, or skete, was built within its walls.

But the rapid development of the vine-stem coils out of the stemless foliages of the Carolingian and Winchester styles is one of the wonders of the early German revival after the accession of the Emperor Otho I.

The Subtreasury Building was a dignified structure in the Greek Revival style of the previous century.

I agree that there is going to be no thawing of this thing if there is the remotest chance of its revival.

In the revival of letters and liberty, this fictitious deed was transpierced by the pen of Laurentius Valla, the pen of an eloquent critic and a Roman patriot.

And nearly all of them seem to be aesthetically alive in a way that hardly any English writer since the Romantic Revival had been.

With the loss of her blondeness came the fading of her confused alter ego and the revival of her true self.

After all, they are defending a fortress and not conducting a Buchmanite revival.

I could not get her body to chemosurgery in time for normal revival procedures.

With the advent of the Tokugawa period, this reaction spread to the intellectual field and stimulated a great Confucian revival.