What is "contemporaries"

Usage examples of "contemporaries".

The contemporaries of Moses and Joshua had beheld with careless indifference the most amazing miracles.

The unanimous evidence of his contemporaries is confirmed by the public and private declarations of the emperor himself.

The evangelist adopts this word without previous explanation, as a term with which his contemporaries were already familiar, and which they could at once comprehend.

At his command, the historical examples of vice and virtue were methodized in fifty-three books, ^7 and every citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, the lesson or the warning of past times.

He was one of the few contemporaries who had genius enough to feel the astonishing scenes that were passing before their eyes.

His elaborate writings, and those of his contemporaries, are forgotten.

The pride of his contemporaries was gratified by the contrast of the past and the present: they would have been humbled by the prospect of futurity.

The study of history and eloquence, the writings of Cicero, Seneca, Livy, Caesar, and Valerius Maximus, elevated above his equals and contemporaries the genius of the young plebeian: he perused with indefatigable diligence the manuscripts and marbles of antiquity.

I was here introduced to a side of Goethe which was as completely unknown to me as to so many others among my contemporaries, who had not yet come into touch with Anthroposophy.

It is just as obvious, however, that the very principle thus re-affirmed at the latest stage of modern physical science was already firmly established by Hooke, when he sought to prove to his contemporaries the unreality of human ideas.

To a high degree this helped him to keep free of those deceptions to which the majority of his contemporaries fell victim, and to which so many persons are still subject to-day.

Until we know exactly what links Gabriel King, Michi Urashima, Magnus Teidemann, and Paul Kwia-tek, we can’t figure out which of their contemporaries might have to be added to the list.

Perhaps, even as you watch die progress of such contemporaries as Michael, you will never experience a single moment’s anguish at the thought that you are a mere betwixt-and-between, becalmed halfway between mortality and authentic emortality.

Jafri Biasiolo retained die appearance of dignified maturity longer than his contemporaries, but he remained as mortal as diey.

Perhaps they too had been contemporaries of Walter Czasdca at Wol-longong, or perhaps their lives had been entangled widi his in other ways.