 The world's great mistress on the Egyptian plain," but architecture, sculpture, and painting, all the arts which embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest; orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed...  Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan - Sida 62efter John L. Stephens - 1854 - 548 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1841 - 404 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest; orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and...their past existence. Books, the records of knowledge, arc silent on this theme. The city was desolate. No remnant of this race hangs round the ruins, with... | |
 | 1841 - 580 sidor
...and voiceless as are the hieroglyphics of her ruins. But let Mr. Stephens speak ." Books, the record of knowledge, are silent on this theme. The city was...remnant of this 'race hangs round the ruins, with tradition handed down from father to son, and from generation to generation. It lay before us like... | |
 | 1843 - 332 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and...father to son, and from generation to generation. The city lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced,... | |
 | 1843 - 758 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and...father to son, and from generation to generation. The city lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of the ocean, her masts gone, her name effaced,... | |
 | George Oliver - 1849 - 190 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen ; beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and...records of knowledge, are silent on this theme. The city is desolate. No remnant of this race hangs round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father... | |
 | Robert Macoy - 1855 - 448 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in tin's overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen ; beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and...records of knowledge, are silent on this theme. The city is desolate. No remnant of this race hangs round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father... | |
 | 1855 - 878 sidor
...lieh life, had flourished in this " overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, " aad statesmen, beauty, ambition, ' and glory, had lived and passed away,...such things • had been, or could tell of their past ' eiieteace. Books, the record of know" ledge, are silent on the theme. The • city was desolate.... | |
 | George Oliver - 1856 - 250 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen ; beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away, and...records of knowledge, are silent on this theme. The city is desolate. No remnant of this race hangs round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 524 sidor
...embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown t T«--t ; orators, warriors, and statesmen, beauty, ambition, and glory, had lived and passed away; and...that such things had been, or could tell of their |«iKt existence. Books, the records of knowledge, are •ileot on this theme. The city was desolate.... | |
 | George Oliver - 1864 - 280 sidor
...had flourished in this overgrown forest ; orators, warriors, and statesmen ; beauty, ambition, auJ glory, had lived and passed away, and none knew that...records of knowledge, are silent on this theme. The city is desolate. No remnant of this race hangs round the ruins, with traditions handed down from father... | |
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