Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World, Volym 2Macmillan, 1862 |
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... Roman sites alongside of genuine Roman remains . Such was the case , on the exposure in 1852 , of part of the ancient Roman wall of London at the Tower postern ; and along with masonry and tiles of undoubted Roman workmanship , a ...
... Roman sites alongside of genuine Roman remains . Such was the case , on the exposure in 1852 , of part of the ancient Roman wall of London at the Tower postern ; and along with masonry and tiles of undoubted Roman workmanship , a ...
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... Roman antiquary has renounced The the pleasant fancy , which accorded to his mural legionary the luxury of a pipe to beguile his dreary outlook from the bleak Northumbrian outposts of Imperial civilisation , the converts to his earlier ...
... Roman antiquary has renounced The the pleasant fancy , which accorded to his mural legionary the luxury of a pipe to beguile his dreary outlook from the bleak Northumbrian outposts of Imperial civilisation , the converts to his earlier ...
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... Roman , and mediæval relics ; but in a sufficient number of cases with such potters ' stamps on them as suffice to assign these also to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . At a date so comparatively recent as that of the ...
... Roman , and mediæval relics ; but in a sufficient number of cases with such potters ' stamps on them as suffice to assign these also to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . At a date so comparatively recent as that of the ...
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... tropical vegeta- tion , intermingled with friezes and fragments of statuary , and ascending the steps of a vast enclosure , terraced with sculptured tiers perfect as those of the Roman Amphitheatre 52 [ CHAP . PREHISTORIC MAN .
... tropical vegeta- tion , intermingled with friezes and fragments of statuary , and ascending the steps of a vast enclosure , terraced with sculptured tiers perfect as those of the Roman Amphitheatre 52 [ CHAP . PREHISTORIC MAN .
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... Roman Amphitheatre , he looked down from a height of a hundred feet on the silent evidence of ages once vital with a native energy and intellect not less wonderful than that which America has since borrowed from the nations of another ...
... Roman Amphitheatre , he looked down from a height of a hundred feet on the silent evidence of ages once vital with a native energy and intellect not less wonderful than that which America has since borrowed from the nations of another ...
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Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volym 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches in the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volym 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volym 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1862 |
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Sida 123 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Sida 458 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Sida 335 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Sida 336 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel : For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
Sida 501 - THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
Sida 469 - Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know.
Sida 339 - Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou ; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee ; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them ; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them...
Sida 48 - It was sold then for it's wayte in silver. I have heard some of our old yeomen neighbours say that when they went to Malmesbury or Chippenham market, they culled out their biggest shillings to lay in the scales against the tobacco.
Sida 337 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Sida 470 - As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured : so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.