In many respects he was far in advance of his age.
In common with the okapi, giraffes have skin-covered horns on the head, but in these animals, which form the genus Giraffa, these appendages are present in both sexes; and there is often an unpaired one in advance of the pair on the forehead.
In all other questions of this kind he shows himself far in advance of the economic fallacies of the day.
Far in advance of his contemporaries on this question, whenever his personal action is don.
The contrast between a campaign of Cromwell's and one of Turenne's is far more than remarkable, and the observation of a military critic who maintains that Cromwell's art of war was two centuries in advance of its time, finds universal acceptance.