The Ruins: Or, A Survey of the Revolutions of EmpiresS. Shaw, 1822 - 320페이지 |
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... past ages , and my mind was absorbed in serious and profound medi- tation . Arrived at Hamsa on the borders of the Orontes , and being at no great distance from the city of Palmyra , situated in the desert , I resolved to make myself ...
... past ages , and my mind was absorbed in serious and profound medi- tation . Arrived at Hamsa on the borders of the Orontes , and being at no great distance from the city of Palmyra , situated in the desert , I resolved to make myself ...
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... past times , the contrast with their present state , all conspired to elevate my heart with a series of sublime meditations . I sat down on the base of a broken column ; and there resting my elbow on my knee , and supporting my head ...
... past times , the contrast with their present state , all conspired to elevate my heart with a series of sublime meditations . I sat down on the base of a broken column ; and there resting my elbow on my knee , and supporting my head ...
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... become annihilated ! Thus , thus pe- rish the labours of men ! Thus nations and empires transiently pass away ! * See note ( a ) at the end of the volume . The history of times past strongly revived and crowded upon B 2 MEDITATIONS . 17.
... become annihilated ! Thus , thus pe- rish the labours of men ! Thus nations and empires transiently pass away ! * See note ( a ) at the end of the volume . The history of times past strongly revived and crowded upon B 2 MEDITATIONS . 17.
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... past strongly revived and crowded upon my thoughts . I called to mind those distant ages , when twenty cele- brated nations inhabited the country around me . I pictured to myself the Assyrian on the banks of the Tygris , the Chaldean on ...
... past strongly revived and crowded upon my thoughts . I called to mind those distant ages , when twenty cele- brated nations inhabited the country around me . I pictured to myself the Assyrian on the banks of the Tygris , the Chaldean on ...
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... past ages , and my mind was absorbed in serious and profound medi- tation . Arrived at Hamsa on the borders of the Orontes , and being at no great distance from the city of Palmyra , situated in the desert , I resolved to make myself ...
... past ages , and my mind was absorbed in serious and profound medi- tation . Arrived at Hamsa on the borders of the Orontes , and being at no great distance from the city of Palmyra , situated in the desert , I resolved to make myself ...
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action ages Ahrimanes ancient animals became become body called Cassimere cause celestial celestial sphere celestial Virgin CHAP chiefs Christian civil consequence constellations desert despotism Divinity doctrine earth Egypt Egyptians emblem empire enjoyments equal equipoise eternal Euphrates evil existence eyes Genii Genius globe Gods hand happiness heart heaven Hence ideas Idumea ignorance immense individual inhabitants Jews justice kings Kneph labour laws legislators ligion living maleficent mankind means ment mind Mithra moral multitude Mussulmen mysteries nations nature Note observed opinions oppressed origin Osiris palaces passions Persians Plutarch Porphyry pretended priests principles prophet reason religion religious ruins sacred savage nations says SECT senses serpent Sidon society soul species spirit stars Syria Tartars temples Thebes thing thou tion truth Typhon tyrants universe virtue whole words worship yourselves Zoroaster
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280 페이지 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one "thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other ; yea, they have all one br,, ith ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. " 20. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
246 페이지 - III.) to be of greater antiquity than any other nation ; and it is probable, that, born under the sun's path, its warmth may have ripened them earlier than other men. They suppose themselves also to be the inventors of divine worship, of festivals, of solemn assemblies, of sacrifices, and every other religious practice.
254 페이지 - In the Declaration of Rights, there is an inversion of ideas in the first article, liberty being placed before equality, from which it in reality springs. This defect is not to be wondered at ; the science of the rights of man is a new science : it was invented yesterday by the Americans, to-day the French are perfecting it, but there yet remains a great deal to be done. In the ideas that constitute it there is a genealogical order which, from its basis, physical equality, to the minutest and most...
288 페이지 - represents a beautiful virgin with flowing hair ; sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant, called Jesus by some nations, and Christ in Greek.
x 페이지 - Where are those ramparts of Nineveh, those walls of Babylon, those palaces of Persepolis, those temples of Balbec and of Jerusalem?
263 페이지 - Tacitus (Annul, lib. 15. c. 44), and the Gospels. But the passage in Josephus is unanimously acknowledged to be apocryphal, and to have been interpolated towards the close of the third century (See Trad, de Josephe, par M.
221 페이지 - Jesus, was an ancient name given to young Bacchus, the clandestine son of the virgin Minerva, who, in the whole history of his life, and even in his death, calls to mind the history of the God of the Christians ; that is, the Star of the Day, of which they are both of them emblems.
247 페이지 - ... of the sciences, and of consequence that the first learned nation was a nation of blacks; for it is incontrovertible, that by the term Ethiopians the ancients meant to represent a people of black complexion, thick lips, and woolly hair. I am therefore inclined to believe, that the inhabitants of Lower Egypt were originally a foreign colony imported from Syria and Arabia, a medley of different tribes of savages, originally shepherds and fishermen, who, by degrees formed themselves into a nation,...
266 페이지 - Plutarch, from the verses of Orpheus and the sacred books of the Egyptians and Phrygians, that the ancient theology, not only of the Greeks but of all nations, was nothing more than a system of physics, a picture of the operations of nature, wrapped up in...
278 페이지 - I find the analogy between it and theelectrial fluid. A luminous fluid, principle of warmth and motion, pervading the universe, forming the matter of the stars, having small round particles, which insinuate themselves into bodies, and fill them by dilating itself, be their extent what it will. What can more strongly resemble electricity?