Essays in History and ArtW. Blackwood and sons, 1862 - 526 sider |
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Side 250
... Assyria , of Persia , and Greece , and Rome , -not one of which ever exceeded in extent that of China eighteen hundred years ago ? Have they not perished utterly ? and are not even the very inhabitants of those regions now totally ...
... Assyria , of Persia , and Greece , and Rome , -not one of which ever exceeded in extent that of China eighteen hundred years ago ? Have they not perished utterly ? and are not even the very inhabitants of those regions now totally ...
Side 305
... Assyria , of Greece and Rome . Time has spared the mighty structures of these latter empires , as if in compensation for having buried the nations that reared them ; but in China , where the dynasties have succeeded one another without ...
... Assyria , of Greece and Rome . Time has spared the mighty structures of these latter empires , as if in compensation for having buried the nations that reared them ; but in China , where the dynasties have succeeded one another without ...
Side 310
... Assyria , and the kingdoms of ancient India , yet it is with these States alone that the isolated civil- isation of China can fairly be compared . Like them , China has reared a civilisation for herself , without any help from without ...
... Assyria , and the kingdoms of ancient India , yet it is with these States alone that the isolated civil- isation of China can fairly be compared . Like them , China has reared a civilisation for herself , without any help from without ...
Side 350
... Assyria . Taking European civil- isation alone , we find as indices of this truth , in ancient Greece , Homer and Æschylus , Plato and Aristotle , -in medieval Italy , Dante and Tasso , Michael Angelo and Raffaelle , -in England ...
... Assyria . Taking European civil- isation alone , we find as indices of this truth , in ancient Greece , Homer and Æschylus , Plato and Aristotle , -in medieval Italy , Dante and Tasso , Michael Angelo and Raffaelle , -in England ...
Side 375
... Assyrians from Euphrates to the foot of Mount Taurus - are toiling in digging canals , in making bricks , or in quarrying , transporting , or raising to their place , those huge blocks of granite which fill with astonishment the ...
... Assyrians from Euphrates to the foot of Mount Taurus - are toiling in digging canals , in making bricks , or in quarrying , transporting , or raising to their place , those huge blocks of granite which fill with astonishment the ...
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Side 195 - ... a sum of not less than one lac of rupees in each year shall be set apart and applied to the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of the learned Natives of India, and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences among the inhabitants of the British Territories in India...
Side 362 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.