 | 1841 - 570 sidor
...be known at all. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or a temple for the worship of...hands, and offer sacrifices on the stones before them 1 All was mystery — dark, impenetrable mystery, and every circumstance increased it. In Egypt, the... | |
 | 1841 - 580 sidor
...known at all. The place where we sat — was it a citadel, from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war* or a temple for the worship of...or did the inhabitants worship the idols made with thtir own hanils, and offer sacrifice on the stones before them \ All was mystery — dark, impenetrable... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1841 - 602 sidor
...be known at all. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or a temple for the worship of the God of peace 1 or, did the inhabitants worship the idols made with their own hands, and offer sacrifices on the... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 sidor
...known at all. The place where we sat — was it a citadel, from which ail unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or a temple for the worship of...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
...known at all. The place where we sat — was it a citadel, from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or a temple for the worship of...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation ; — here an immense forest shrouds the ruins,... | |
 | 1853 - 758 sidor
...city was desolate. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or a temple for the worship of...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...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation; — here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding... | |
 | 1855 - 878 sidor
...where we sat, was " it a citadel from which an unknown '' people had sounded 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 offer sacrifices • on the stones... | |
 | George Oliver - 1856 - 250 sidor
...known at all. The place where we sat — was it a cidadel, from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war ? or a temple for the worship of...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation ;— here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 524 sidor
...be known at all. The place where we sat, was it a citadel from which an unknown people had sounded the trumpet of war, or a temple for the worship of...colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands, in all the nakedness of desolation; here, an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding... | |
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... whom she belonged, how long on her voyage, or what caused her destruction; her lost people to be traced only by some fancied resemblance in the construction of the vessel, and, perhaps, never to be known at all. The place where we sat, was it a citadel... 
