 ... the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even Englishmen, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity...  The Album - Seite 1771822Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 724 Seiten
...at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix,through suchimmemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by...the earth most swarming with human life ; the great afficina gentium. Alan is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 370 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart and refused to mix through...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the mere names of the Ganges and Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings, that Southern Asia is,... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 Seiten
...of the effects produced by this drug upon the imagination during sleep. Listen to one of them : — 'Southern Asia is, and has been for thousands of years,...the earth most swarming with human life ; the great ojficina. gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through...the earth most swarming with human life ; the great qfficina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 316 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through...the earth most swarming with human life, the great qfflcitia gentium. Man is a . weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1850 - 300 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through...the earth most swarming with human life, the great ojicina gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires, also, into which the enormous population... | |
 | 1855 - 802 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix through such immemorial tracts of time It contributes much to these feelings, that Southern Asia is, and has been for thousands of years,... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through...earth most swarming with human life — the great officitia gentium. Man is a weed in those regions. The vast empires also, into which the enormous population... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings,... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 420 Seiten
...not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings,... | |
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