1. Of the countries of Western Europe, it is France that has the greatest number of human fossils.
2. It is no doubt to this quality that the great popularity of this collection is due.
3. It was only through treachery that the Turks had taken Antioch in 1085.
4. It was during the reign of the same Emperor that the Bulgars, who in
later days played so important a part in Byzantine history, first
established themselves in the Balkans.
5. Schools flourished in
monasteries connected with York, Yarrow and Whitby, and it is to these
that the literature about to be described owes its origin.
6. But,
after all, it is not by means of any tricks or devices that, the
remarkable effect of Milton's verse is produced: that surely is due to
the genius of the author whose mind and soul were full of music and
harmony.
7. All the extensions of human control over external
nature have been due to improvement in tools. For it is mainly with the
aid of tools that men can act upon and alter the material world around
them.
8. In 1681 John Dryden wrote his four celebrated Satyres,
which brought him into still greater prominence in society and at Court.
It is largely on these that his fame as a poet now rests.
9. It
was only with the beginning of that literary movement which we call
Romanticism that men of letters, artists and scholars began to turn
their attention seriously to the investigation of regional dialects.
10. However it is with Leonardo the painter and sculptor that this book
is concerned, and though from his paintings one can guess at a massive
intellect one could hardly deduce the empirical scientist and inventor.