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What English Children of Five Centuries Have Read; CHILDREN'S BOOKS IN ENG- LAND.

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But at its core is the story of a people who, for five centuries, have been longing to call their homeland their own.

The discovery of the Americas, wrote Francisco Lopez de Gomara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created". Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

Five centuries have passed, yet we still view Leonardo with awe".

Even as Inoue elevated Japanese Confucian thinking as philosophical, late-Qing China abandoned its civil service examination system which for over five centuries had tested one's mastery of Confucian texts.

No pope in five centuries has affected England's culture more deeply, writers from Great Britain say.

Nearly three centuries have passed between that moment and this.

More than two centuries have passed since the concept of human rights was first developed.

Certainly both quartets, separated by two centuries, have a dignity and repose that rise above turmoil.

More than two centuries have passed since the British crown was given the boot.