Ancient Times are those which refer to remote periods of antiquity.

The degeneracy and corruption of modern times, as opposed to those of the ancients, have afforded a fruitful source of peevish invective, and an endless cause of querulous complaint, to both the learned and the illiterate. It has been the constant custom, at all times, to declare every succeeding age more wicked than the former; to represent the world as perpetually increasing in vice and folly; to lament the good old days that arte past, and to anticipate nothing but misery from the future. Yet, however corrupt or vicious may be the age in which we live, let us but im-partially compare the history of past s with those of our own, and we shall find no great reason to unite outery: on the probable, - that our successors will attribute virtues to us, than are possessed by themselves; though, perhaps, may be less virtuous, or more depraved, than the most ci.

nations of antiquity.