 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 572 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath .her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those- deserts asketh of her, who builded them? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 578 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | 1837 - 552 Seiten
...account of his visit. He takes his leave of Egypt with this reflection upon one of the prophecies: "It is now more than three thousand years since the...the Georgian, the Circassian, and the Ottoman Turk, nave successively trodden it down and trampled upon it; for thirty centuries the foot of a stranger... | |
 | 1837 - 704 Seiten
...'History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.' We cannot lay aside these volumes without again expressing our conviction, that the works of Sir Thomas... | |
 | 1837 - 682 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who builded them, and she mumbleth something, but what it is, he heareth not.' Thus it is, that the position of our being defies all primary or ultimate inquiry. If we look back,... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 436 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as hepaceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who builded them? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. " Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1838 - 436 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, Who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. " Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
 | 1839 - 444 Seiten
...passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who buildeth them, and she mnmbleth something, bnt what it is he heareth not." It is now more than three...the Ottoman Turk, have successively trodden it down anc trampled upon it; for thirty centuries the foot of a stranger has been upon the necks of her inhabitants;... | |
 | 1841 - 210 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller, as he paceth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her who builded them, and she mumbleth something, but what it is, he heareth not." The discovery of hieroglyphics, the most wonderful discovery of a wonderful age, has thrown great light... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1842 - 82 Seiten
...History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not. Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness and doteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and... | |
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... looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller... 
