The history of literature; or, The rise and progress of language, writing and letters, Band 1 |
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... persons , showed this imagination to be vain ; for those who were brought up without any communication with their species were always dumb , with the exception of sometimes imitating the natural sounds of whatever beasts or birds they ...
... persons , showed this imagination to be vain ; for those who were brought up without any communication with their species were always dumb , with the exception of sometimes imitating the natural sounds of whatever beasts or birds they ...
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... the Pentateuch , ' that the flood happened in the six hundredth year of Noah's life , that the whole human race was destroyed with the ' Genesis , chap . vii . verse 2 . exception of eight persons , two of whom were very 32 THE ORIENTAL.
... the Pentateuch , ' that the flood happened in the six hundredth year of Noah's life , that the whole human race was destroyed with the ' Genesis , chap . vii . verse 2 . exception of eight persons , two of whom were very 32 THE ORIENTAL.
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sir William Cathcart Boyd. exception of eight persons , two of whom were very old ; the world being repeopled by the descendants of the three sons of Noah and their wives . To fix therefore so short a period as 160 years , is at variance ...
sir William Cathcart Boyd. exception of eight persons , two of whom were very old ; the world being repeopled by the descendants of the three sons of Noah and their wives . To fix therefore so short a period as 160 years , is at variance ...
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... persons in dislike , and fortifying their harbours , rarely granted strangers admittance into them . It was in the de- cline of their power , and when a veneration for ancient maxims had much abated , that they again opened their ports ...
... persons in dislike , and fortifying their harbours , rarely granted strangers admittance into them . It was in the de- cline of their power , and when a veneration for ancient maxims had much abated , that they again opened their ports ...
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... persons , formed divinities out of titles and attributes , and gave to their imaginary heroes , the names of collective bodies of people , till at length every Grecian mountain acquired its Oreads , every wood its Dryads , every ...
... persons , formed divinities out of titles and attributes , and gave to their imaginary heroes , the names of collective bodies of people , till at length every Grecian mountain acquired its Oreads , every wood its Dryads , every ...
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Seite 88 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Seite 266 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Seite 86 - Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee all the while Softly speak and sweetly smile.
Seite 74 - Thus having spoke, the illustrious chief of Troy Stretch'd his fond arms to clasp the lovely boy. The babe clung crying to his nurse's breast, Scared at the dazzling helm and nodding crest. With secret pleasure each fond parent smiled, And Hector hasted to relieve his child, The glittering terrors from his brows unbound, And...
Seite 77 - Nineteen one Mother bore— Dead, all are dead! How oft, alas! has wretched Priam bled? Still One was left, their Loss to recompense; His Father's Hope, his Country's last Defence. Him too thy Rage has slain! beneath thy Steel 620 Unhappy, in his Country's Cause he fell! For him, thro...
Seite 9 - Thus, in all languages, we find a multitude of words that are evidently constructed upon this principle. A certain bird is termed the cuckoo, from the sound which it emits. When one sort of wind is said to whistle, and another to roar ; when a serpent is said to hiss ; a fly to...
Seite 74 - The wanton courser thus with reins unbound Breaks from his stall, and beats the trembling ground; Pamper'd and proud, he seeks the wonted tides, And laves, in height of blood, his shining sides...
Seite 238 - CLOUDS [approaching nearer]. Ye Clouds replete with fruitful showers, Here let us seek Minerva's towers, The cradle of old Cecrops' race, The world's chief ornament and grace; Here mystic fanes and rites divine And lamps in sacred splendour shine; Here the Gods dwell in marble domes, Feasted with costly hecatombs, That round their votive statues blaze, Whilst crowded temples ring with praise; And pompous sacrifices here Make holidays throughout the year, And when gay spring-time comes again, Bromius...
Seite 1 - There is no part of history so generally useful as that which relates the progress of the human mind, the gradual improvement of reason, the successive advances of science, the vicissitudes of learning and ignorance, which are the light and darkness of thinking beings, the extinction and resuscitation of arts, and the revolutions of the intellectual world.
Seite 64 - Let him whose might can hurl this bowl, arise; Who farthest hurls it, takes it as his prize. If he be one, enrich'd with large domain Of downs for flocks, and arable for grain, Small stock of iron needs that man provide; His hinds and swains whole years shall be supplied From hence : nor ask the neighbouring city's aid, For ploughshares, wheels, and all the rural trade.