 ... you begin to inquire if any tradition, if any the faintest records can throw any light upon these habitations of men of another age. Is there no scope beside these mounds for imagination, and for contemplation of the past ? The men, their joys, their...  The Indian and Antiquities of America - Σελίδα 258των Barnard Shipp - 1897 - 451 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 610 σελίδες
...their sorrows, their bones, are all buried together. But the grand features of nature remain. T here is the beautiful prairie, over which they " strutted...that they did to those generations that have passed away.1 The most liberal American, however, can rarely close, without betraying a little of the sourness... | |
 | 1829 - 632 σελίδες
...records can throw any light upon these habitations of men of another age. " Is there no scope, besides these mounds, for imagination, and for contemplation...guilty dens of petty tyrants, who let loose their half savage vassals to burn, plunder, enslave, and despoil an adjoining den. There are no remains of... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1826 - 410 σελίδες
...discovers at once that they are the labours of art and of men. When the evidence of the senses convinces us that human bones moulder in these masses, when...guilty dens of petty tyrants, who let loose their half savage vassals, to burn, plunder, enslave, and despoil an adjoining den. There are no remains... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1826 - 410 σελίδες
...together. But the grand features of nature remain. There is the beautiful prairie, over which tiiey " strutted through life's poor play." The forests, the...they did to those generations that have passed away. 170 It is true, we have little reason to suppose that they were the guilty dens of petty tyrants, who... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 σελίδες
...and lazy monks dreamed over their lusts, or meditated their vile plans of acquisition and imposture. Is there no scope, beside these mounds, for imagination,...they did to those generations that have passed away. Here must have been a race of men, on these charming plains, that ha'd every call from the scenes that... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 σελίδες
...discovers, at once, that they are the labours of art and of men. When the evidence of the senses convinces us that human bones moulder in these masses ; when...guilty dens of petty tyrants, who let loose their half savage vassals to burn, plunder, enslave, and despoil an adjoining den. There are no remains of... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 σελίδες
...once, that these races were of a verj different character from the present generation, — you begir to inquire if any tradition, if any, the faintest,...generations that have passed away. It is true, we have Iktle reason to suppose, that they were the guilty dens of petty tyrants, who let loose their half... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 634 σελίδες
...discovers at once that they are the labours of art and of men. When the evidence of the senses convinces us that human bones moulder in these masses, when...they did to those generations that have passed away.' The most liberal American, however, can rarely close, without betraying a little of the sourness that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 608 σελίδες
...discovers at once that they are the labours of art and of men. AVhen the evidence of the senses convinces us that human bones moulder in these masses, when...they did to those generations that have passed away.' The most liberal American, however, can rarely close, without betraying a little of tlie sourness that... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1833 - 120 σελίδες
...quantities of duration equal to days and years would glide away unobserved. 24 VnOGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN 5. The forests, the hills, the mounds, lift their heads...they did to those generations that have passed away. 6. I have seen in different parts of the Atlantick country, the breast works and other defences of... | |
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