Westward Empire: Or, The Great Drama of Human ProgressHarper, 1856 - 445 pagina's |
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... literary research with the previous triumphs of Young and Champollion . We discover syllables at length ; and if on the banks of the Nile , we found a full grown adult , but impo- tent and out of the way , we meet , on the banks of the ...
... literary research with the previous triumphs of Young and Champollion . We discover syllables at length ; and if on the banks of the Nile , we found a full grown adult , but impo- tent and out of the way , we meet , on the banks of the ...
Pagina 31
... literary glory above all competition ; from whose poets we derive our best ideas of the beautiful and sublime ; from whose artists we copy the eter- nal rules of taste ; and from whose orators we catch the high pas- sions which most ...
... literary glory above all competition ; from whose poets we derive our best ideas of the beautiful and sublime ; from whose artists we copy the eter- nal rules of taste ; and from whose orators we catch the high pas- sions which most ...
Pagina 33
... literary world , became the foundation and source of a better one already begun . Archilochus , memorable as the inventor of Iambic verse ; Ter- pander , celebrated for his exquisite talents as a musician ; and Ster- sichorus , of whom ...
... literary world , became the foundation and source of a better one already begun . Archilochus , memorable as the inventor of Iambic verse ; Ter- pander , celebrated for his exquisite talents as a musician ; and Ster- sichorus , of whom ...
Pagina 36
... literary crown . At this period the structural skill of the Athenians had greatly improved , and as the celebrity of their drama increased , immense theatres arose on the hill - side , and were thronged by thousands , tier above tier ...
... literary crown . At this period the structural skill of the Athenians had greatly improved , and as the celebrity of their drama increased , immense theatres arose on the hill - side , and were thronged by thousands , tier above tier ...
Pagina 37
... literary beauty , the Acropolis . As Eschylus expressed the race and period from which emerged Themistocles and Aristides , Sophocles was the correlative of Phidias , and the great Olympian who was the patron of them both . Indeed ...
... literary beauty , the Acropolis . As Eschylus expressed the race and period from which emerged Themistocles and Aristides , Sophocles was the correlative of Phidias , and the great Olympian who was the patron of them both . Indeed ...
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Pagina 426 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Pagina 380 - Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Pagina 256 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Pagina 116 - I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
Pagina 354 - ... teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. "Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Pagina 393 - Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Pagina 380 - King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Pagina 342 - ... on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in the career of political improvement. The history of England is the history of this great change in the moral, intellectual, and physical state of the inhabitants of our own island.
Pagina 49 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Pagina 390 - Into the thickest wood ; there soon they chose The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, But such as at this day to Indians known In Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillared shade High overarched, and echoing walks between...