theretofore scholarly philosophers, metaphysicians, and critics had written for their fellows, and whether or not any of the mass read and understood, the authors cared but little.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
Each discovery destroys in whole or part some theretofore cherished belief.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh
So soon as Assyria was made conscious of her new vigour by the ease with which the Urartu raiders, who had long been encroaching on Mesopotamia, and even on Syria, were driven back across the Nairi lands and penned into their central fastnesses of Van; by the ease, too, with which Babylonia was humbled and occupied again, and the Phoenician ports and the city of Damascus, impregnable theretofore, were taken and held to tribute-she began to dream of world empire, the first society in history to conceive this unattainable ideal.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth