He wrote: Hitherto the affairs of the world had been as it were dispersed…; since this date [220 bce] history has formed an organic whole, and the affairs of Italy and Africa have been interlinked with those of Greece and Asia, all tending towards one end (I, 3, 3 4).
The focus becomes fuzzy, and the writing, hitherto so confident, suddenly feels labored and scrappy.
Kerouac began to revel in what he described as "a greater freedom in writing" than hitherto.
Pärssinen and the other authors of the study in Antiquity write, "This hitherto unknown people constructed earthworks of precise geometric plan connected by straight orthogonal roads….
It's written by Mark Haddon, hitherto best known for kids' stories and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, his novel narrated by an autistic boy.
The early emperors usually made the Senate their mouthpiece and issued their laws in the form of senatorial decrees; by the 2nd century the emperor was openly replacing whatever other sources of written law had hitherto been permitted to function.
Haig's moral seriousness – his willingness to grapple with those big themes – combined with his formal playfulness and a certain outsider chic, make his work highly attractive to young adult readers, yet he hasn't, hitherto, written explicitly for teenagers.
"Fukuyama has slightly toned down his Whiggish claims about the inevitable triumph of liberal democracy, just at the moment when a part of the world hitherto written off as almost immune to that trend has burst into a series of pro-democracy uprisings".
It is a first-hand account of Jonson's famous walk from London to Scotland in 1618, written by a hitherto unknown travelling companion who was also apparently his godson – the primary meaning of "gossip" at this time (from the Middle English godsib, "related in god") was godfather.
In a letter of 13 November 1639, Descartes wrote to Mersenne that he was "working on a discourse in which I try to clarify what I have hitherto written" on metaphysics (2 622).
