It remained, however, throughout antiquity as the most important work on its subject, and it entitles Theophrastus to be called the "father of botany." Theophrastus deals also with the mineral kingdom after much the same fashion, and here again his work is the most notable that was produced in antiquity.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-1》
I hope and think you are too severe on Lyell's early chapters. Though so condensed, and not well arranged, they seemed to me to convey with uncommon force the antiquity of man, and that was his object. (359/1. "The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man": London, 1863.) It did not occur to me, but I fear there is some truth in your criticism, that nothing is to be trusted until he [Lyell] had observed it.英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
Than the time of these urns deposited, or precise antiquity of these relicks, nothing of more uncertainty; for since the lieutenant of Claudius seems to have made the first progress into these parts, since Boadicea was overthrown by the forces of Nero, and Agricola put a full end to these conquests, it is not probable the country was fully garrisoned or planted before; and, therefore, however these urns might be of later date, not likely of higher antiquity.英文原著 · 《Religio Medici》
But to me, on the other side, that do desire as much as lieth in my pen to ground a sociable intercourse between antiquity and proficience, it seemeth best to keep way with antiquity USQUE AD ARAS; and therefore to retain the ancient terms, though I sometimes alter the uses and definitions; according to [36] the moderate proceeding in civil government; where although there be some alteration, yet that holdeth which Tacitus wisely noteth, EADEM MAGISTRATUUM VOCABULA.英文原著 · 《The Advancement of Learning》
Yet no one would expect to meet with any such reversion in them. The lesser divergence of character in the races of man in comparison with the species of Simiadae may perhaps be accounted for by man having spread over the world at a much later period than did the Simiadae. I am fully prepared to admit the high antiquity of man; but then we have evidence, in the Dryopithecus, of the high antiquity of the Anthropomorphous Simiae.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
LYELL, Sir Charles, estimate of his character as a geologist. Letters to. Letters from. Opinion of 'Coral Reefs.' His views of the 'Origin of Species.' On the origin of species by natural causes. Admission of the doctrine of natural selection. Darwin on his 'Antiquity of Man.' Falconer's reclamation from his 'Antiquity of Man.' Darwin on his 'Elements of Geology.' His death. Darwin's opinion of.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》