| 1841 - 404 sidor
...an unknown people had sounded thc trumpet of ji to say. I believe not. At the rear is an unexplored war? or a temple for the worship of the God of peace?...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatcred sands in all the nakedness of desolation; here an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding... | |
| 1841 - 580 sidor
...of Peace ! or did the inhabitants worship the idols made with thtir own hanils, and offer sacrifice on the stones before them \ All was mystery — dark,...of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands, m all the nakedness of desolation ; here, an immense forest, shrouded in ruins, hilling them from sight,... | |
| Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 sidor
...vessel, and perhaps never to be known at all. The place where we sat — was it a citadel, from which ail unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the uuwatered sands, in all the nakedness of desolation ; here, an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding... | |
| George Oliver - 1849 - 190 sidor
...whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction ; her lost people to be B 5 traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction...nakedness of desolation ; — here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving... | |
| 1853 - 758 sidor
...in his travels, " books, the records of knowledge, are silent on the theme. The city was desolate. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which...mystery — and every circumstance increased it." Must, then, the links of that mighty chain, which girdled the globe with the fragile marks of human... | |
| Robert Macoy - 1855 - 448 sidor
...known at all. The place where we sat — was it a citadel, from which an unknown people had souuded the trumpet of war? or a temple for the worship of...nakedness of desolation; — here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving... | |
| 1855 - 878 sidor
...the trumpet of " war Î or a temple for the worship of " the God of peace ? or did the in" habitants worship the idols made with " their own hands, and...All was '• mystery ; dark, impenetrable, mystery, '• whicheverycircumstanceincreaeed. In ' Egypt the colossal skeletons of gigantic ' temples stand... | |
| George Oliver - 1856 - 250 sidor
...construction of the vessel, and perhaps never to be known at all. The place where we sat — was it a cidadel, from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet...nakedness of desolation ;— here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving... | |
| George Oliver - 1864 - 280 sidor
...inhabitants worship the idols made with their own hands, and offer sacrifices on the stones before them 1 All was mystery, dark, impenetrable mystery ; and every circumstance increased it. In The arts then being of universal application, Freemasonry — which teaches those arts — is of universal... | |
| Pictures - 1871 - 272 sidor
...had flourished in this overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen, 1VHAT DOES IT MEAN ? 133 beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the umvatered sands, in all the nakedness of desolation ; here, an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding... | |
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