Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilizations, and Their Physical Conditions: Delivered at the Alexandra CollegeLongmans, Green, 1869 - 296 Seiten |
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... He will rather find a few epochs , and a few countries , brought before him at their most brilliant periods , and treated with a view to understanding their character and xiv Preface . their culture . He will learn a PREFACE.
... He will rather find a few epochs , and a few countries , brought before him at their most brilliant periods , and treated with a view to understanding their character and xiv Preface . their culture . He will learn a PREFACE.
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... character of the Old Testament completely hidden from them , by being taught to read it only from a spiritual point of view . It is to such people , if they have historical tastes , a book of new and strange interest , when it is ...
... character of the Old Testament completely hidden from them , by being taught to read it only from a spiritual point of view . It is to such people , if they have historical tastes , a book of new and strange interest , when it is ...
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... character in the first Lecture is borrowed from Mommsen's " History of Rome . " Many French authors , of less importance , have also been placed under contribution . This enu- meration is necessary in common honesty , and will be ...
... character in the first Lecture is borrowed from Mommsen's " History of Rome . " Many French authors , of less importance , have also been placed under contribution . This enu- meration is necessary in common honesty , and will be ...
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... character that can be found . This tendency is by no means confined to barbarous or primitive ages ; you may find it existing in the present day before your eyes . The very same and of the Siege of Troy . 3 good stories.
... character that can be found . This tendency is by no means confined to barbarous or primitive ages ; you may find it existing in the present day before your eyes . The very same and of the Siege of Troy . 3 good stories.
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... character have found through the lips of its most gifted members . And next to the monuments of its literature come those of its art , in which its sense of truth and beauty have been symbolized and perpetuated . Then there is the moral ...
... character have found through the lips of its most gifted members . And next to the monuments of its literature come those of its art , in which its sense of truth and beauty have been symbolized and perpetuated . Then there is the moral ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Ægean Africa ages ancient Arabia Arabs arts Aryan Asia Asia Minor Babylon Babylonians barbarous beauty Berbers Boeotia Book of Kings called Canaanites Carthage causes Celts century B.C. character cities civiliza civilization climate coast commerce contrast cultivation culture curious desert developed dialect doubt earliest early effects Egypt Egyptians Empire Europe fact forests globe gold Greece Greeks habits Hebrews Hence Herodotus historians Homer idea India influence inhabitants islands Julius Cæsar kings labour land language lecture live lower classes Lycians Mediterranean Melkart ment Mesopotamia mighty mind mountains nations nature never Nile original Osiris Palestine peculiar Phoenicians Phrygian Music physical picture plains political possessed present primitive produced Red Sea religion remarkable rich rivers Roman savage seems Semitic Sidon soil speak Syria Tarshish temple things tion trade tribes Tyre valley wealth wild wonder worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 21 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Seite 99 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Seite 72 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Seite 162 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, And which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, Nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Seite 153 - Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats : in these were they thy merchants. The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, r~ they were thy merchants : they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Seite 152 - They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war : they hanged the shield and helmet in thee ; they set forth thy comeliness. The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about...
Seite 162 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Seite 142 - I return your recompence upon your own head ; because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Seite 151 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Seite 99 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.