The Ruins: Or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires. By M. Volney, ... Translated from the FrenchJ. Johnson, 1796 - 395 sivua |
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The Ruins: Or, A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires C -F (Constantin-François) 175 Volney Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 2021 |
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Sivu 31 - Nineveh, (9) whose name seems to be threatened with the same oblivion that has overtaken its greatness ; of Thapsacus, of Anatho, of Gerra, and of the melancholy and memorable Palmyra. O names, for ever glorious ! celebrated fields ! famous countries ! how replete in your aspect with sublime instruction...
Sivu 12 - Reflecting that if the places before me had once exhibited this animated picture ; who, said I to myself, can assure me that their present desolation will not one day be the lot of our own country ? Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the Thames, or the Zuyder sea, where now, in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes...
Sivu 29 - It was there that a people, since forgotten, discovered the elements of science and art at a time when all other men were barbarous, and when a race, now regarded as the refuse of society, explored among the phenomena of nature those civil and religious systems which have since held mankind in awe.
Sivu 7 - The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of public places. The opulence of a commercial city is changed into hideous poverty. The palaces of kings are become the receptacle of deer, and unclean reptiles inhabit the sanctuary of the gods. What glory is here...
Sivu 12 - Zuyder sea, where now, in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow to take in the multitude of sensations; who knows but he will sit down solitary, amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned, and their greatness changed into an empty name...
Sivu 9 - I looked for those ancient people and their works, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves on the sand.
Sivu 228 - ... primitive and fundamental type of all his conceptions of the Divinity. " The action of the natural existences, in the second place, excited in him sensations of pleasure or pain, of good or evil ; by virtue of his organization, he conceived love or aversion for them, he desired or dreaded their presence : and fear or hope was the principle of every idea of religion. " Afterwards, judging every thing...
Sivu 2 - I wandered over the country, and examined the condition of the peasants : and no where perceiving aught but robbery and devastation, tyranny and wretchedness, my heart was oppressed with sorrow and indignation. Every day I found in my route, fields abandoned by the plough, villages deserted, and cities in ruins.
Sivu 293 - Jesus, was an ancient name given to young Bacchus, the clandestine son of the virgin Minerva, who, in the whole history of his life, and even in his death, calls to mind the history of the God of the Christians ; that is, the Star of the Day, of which they are both of them emblems.
Sivu 280 - Isis veiled, with this inscription, / am all that has been, all that is, and all that will be, and no mortal has drawn aside my veil...