The probability is that the tradition goes back to the earliest beginnings of Babylonian history.
It is hardly necessary to devote space to the beginnings of the enterprise, although they are full of interest.
Therefore it seems fitting to tell here the story of the beginnings of an industry that came to have great importance.
I watched his beginnings, and if I didn't know him well, my friends and Louis's did. And most of them--as he knows!--have pretty strong opinions by now about the man."
The explanation is simple: the waters of the Atlantic now flow over the country where all this magnificence and power were developed by slow stages from the rude beginnings of barbarism.
These questions, then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in marriage but the pleasure married people get from one another, that is, only the beginnings of marriage and not its whole significance, which lies in the family.
Almost all the electrical arts now employed made their beginnings in the next twenty-five years, and while the more extensive of them depend to-day on the dynamo for electrical energy, some of the most important still remain in loyal allegiance to the older source.
At length, when the naval power of the empire was firmly established, Peter conceived the idea of removing this skiff from Moscow to Petersburg, and consecrating it solemnly there as a sort of souvenir to be preserved forever in commemoration of the small beginnings from which all the naval greatness of the empire had sprung.