... were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and Fall of nations, reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human... Records of the Heart, and Other Poems - Sida 238efter Estelle Anna LEWIS - 1866 - 420 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
| John Lloyd Stephens - 1842 - 700 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth....their wealth and power. In the midst of desolation and rain we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest, and fancied every building perfect,... | |
| Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 sidor
...unknown : the links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and those were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth....their kings, we went up to their desolate temples and ruined altars, and wherever we moved we saw the evidence of their taste — their skill in the arts... | |
| Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - 1844 - 276 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth. We lived in, the ruined 9* palace of their kings ; we went up to their desolate temples and fallen aftars ; and wherever we... | |
| William Linton - 1862 - 174 sidor
...incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished ; entirely unknown we lived in the ruined palace of their kings ; we...and fallen altars ; and wherever we moved we saw the evidence of their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth, and power. In the midst of desolation and... | |
| Mother Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost ; and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth....taste, their skill in arts, their wealth and power. 8. In the midst of desolation and ruin, we looked back to the past, cleared away the gloomy forest,... | |
| Brigham Henry Roberts - 1909 - 496 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth. We lived in the ruined palaces of their kings; we went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars; and wherever we moved... | |
| Carolyn Elaine Tate - 1992 - 332 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth....their taste, their skill in arts, their wealth and power.2 As the science of archaeology developed in Europe and the United States, Stephens' accounts... | |
| 1999 - 282 sidor
...unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth....went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars In the romance of the world's history nothing ever impressed me more forcibly than the spectacle of... | |
| Jared M. Diamond - 2005 - 620 sidor
...the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished. . . . We went up to their desolate temples and fallen altars; and wherever we moved we saw the evidence of their taste, their skill in arts. . . . We called back into life the strange people who... | |
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