Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
As the Persian imitated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm, so the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes, but travelled from Ecbatana, where the spring was spent, to Susa in summer and to Babylon for the winter.
My theory is that in a far distant era
Caprona was a mighty mountain--perhaps the world's mightiest volcanic action blew off the entire crest, blew thousands of feet of the mountain upward and outward and onto the surrounding continent, leaving a great crater; and then, possibly, the continent sank as ancient continents have been known to do, leaving only the summit of Caprona above the sea.
Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era.
12 The publication of this era which most probably has influenced these fables, is the "Liber Facetiarum," l3 a book consisting of a hundred jests and stories, by the celebrated Poggio Bracciolini, published A.
Within a month you must be Prime Minister, and we will show the world the way to a new era
By 1896, when the Common Battery system created a new era
, the telephone engineer had pretty well mastered his simpler troubles.
Friederich Nietzsche, the mad philosopher of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era
, who caught wild glimpses of truth, but who, before he was done, reasoned himself around the great circle of human thought and off into madness.
Sometimes a man survives a considerable time from an era
in which he had his place into one which is strange to him, and then the curious are offered one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy.
Those few minutes marked to him an era
in his official life.
It must have been a first model in the year one of the typewriter era
The new era
began; the king was tried, doomed, and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms; the black flag waved night and day from the great towers of Notre Dame; three hundred thousand men, summoned to rise against the tyrants of the earth, rose from all the varying soils of France, as if the dragon's teeth had been sown broadcast, and had yielded fruit equally on hill and plain, on rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of the South and under the clouds of the North, in fell and forest, in the vineyards and the olive-grounds and among the cropped grass and the stubble of the corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea-shore.