 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 sidor
...much stronger influence of the white races. In C/utr/iaif, Jtitines Amcr., pp. 32, 45, 07, 103, etc. ' Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and...the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth.' Argument* against an extinct race and Egyptian resemblances. Stephens, vol. ii., pp. 356-7, •430-57.... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1881 - 56 sidor
...degradation and decay. The ruins of Palenque in Central America, as Mr. Stephens observes, present "the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...their golden age, and perished entirely unknown." There are no fixed limits in time for each cycle of development. Nations, like individuals, pursue... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1883 - 834 sidor
...a much stronger influence of the white races. In Charnay, Enines Amer., pp. 32, 45, 97, 103, etc. ' Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and...incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their gulden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886 - 832 sidor
...who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their goldeu age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which...human family were severed and lost, and these were tha only memorials of their footsteps upon earth." Arguments against an extinct race and Kgyptian resemblances.... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - 832 sidor
...much stronger influence of the white races. In C/tarnay, Ruines Amcr., pp. 32, 45, 97, 103, etc. ' Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and...perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them witli the human family were severed and lost, and these were the only memorials of their footsteps... | |
 | 1841 - 404 sidor
...assigning to the ruined city an immense extent, or an antiquity coeval with that of the Egyptians, or any other ancient and known people. What we had before...the only memorials of their footsteps upon earth." Now take Palmyra of the desert for instance. It is very old, but }-et we know what it' was, and when... | |
 | T. Patrick Culbert - 1991 - 414 sidor
...characters." The inscriptions at Copan he believed to be historical in content, and the sites in general "the remains of a cultivated, polished and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incidental to the rise and fall of nations, reached their golden age and perished, entirely unknown"... | |
 | Carolyn Elaine Tate - 1992 - 332 sidor
...was irrevocably lost. He never visited Yaxchilan, but mused after having lingered weeks at Palenque: Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all stages incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown.... | |
 | 1999 - 282 sidor
...discourse upon ruins, the first time most clearly in the middle of his report on the ruins of Palenque: Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all stages incident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown.... | |
 | Jared M. Diamond - 2005 - 620 sidor
...passed away, and none knew that such things had been, or could tell of their past existence. . . . Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and...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... | |
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Here 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... 
