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... and their aptitude for all the arts that make civiliza- tion , will have full scope for their peaceful development . BRYCE March 4 , 1914 PREFACE TO FRENCH EDITION AT the opening of our pleasant viii The People of Armenia.
... and their aptitude for all the arts that make civiliza- tion , will have full scope for their peaceful development . BRYCE March 4 , 1914 PREFACE TO FRENCH EDITION AT the opening of our pleasant viii The People of Armenia.
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Their Past, Their Culture, Their Future Arshak Chʻopanyan. PREFACE TO FRENCH EDITION AT the opening of our pleasant conference , M. Archag Tchobanian did well to remind us that for the last sixteen years I have continued to denounce the ...
Their Past, Their Culture, Their Future Arshak Chʻopanyan. PREFACE TO FRENCH EDITION AT the opening of our pleasant conference , M. Archag Tchobanian did well to remind us that for the last sixteen years I have continued to denounce the ...
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... French . His work has the effect of making us muse over the strength of those Romanesque columns , over the peculiar grace of those Byzantine Mosaics . In the lecture that we are about to read , he renders a touching testimony to his ...
... French . His work has the effect of making us muse over the strength of those Romanesque columns , over the peculiar grace of those Byzantine Mosaics . In the lecture that we are about to read , he renders a touching testimony to his ...
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... French ladies , friends of Armenia , having expressed a desire that one who is a representative of Armenian literature should afford , in a lecture before a Parisian audience , a glimpse into Armenian history and Armenian culture , I ...
... French ladies , friends of Armenia , having expressed a desire that one who is a representative of Armenian literature should afford , in a lecture before a Parisian audience , a glimpse into Armenian history and Armenian culture , I ...
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... French nation vouchsafes to bestow on Armenians affects and gratifies them profoundly . And it will be a great pleasure to me this evening to demonstrate , by a concise statement of the historical character and the intellectual life of ...
... French nation vouchsafes to bestow on Armenians affects and gratifies them profoundly . And it will be a great pleasure to me this evening to demonstrate , by a concise statement of the historical character and the intellectual life of ...
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Page 13 - Land, no nation and no people were so prompt or so full of zeal as the Armenians to lend their aid, whether it was in men, in horses, in provisions, or in counsel ; with all their forces and with the greatest gallantry and fidelity, they came to the aid of the Christians in their holy wars.
Page ii - Poèmes. Aurore. La caravane des heures. Angoisse. Visions. Dans la nuit. Sur la colline. Traduction française. Préface de Pierre Quillard. Paris: Société du Mercure de France, 1908.
Page 11 - Bagratidse, which soon succeeded, not only in keeping in awe all the enemies of the country, but turned Ani, the capital of the kingdom, into a magnificent home of Christian art, an Asiatic sister to Byzantium.
Page vii - Armenian^ race, whose annals stretch back to^the sixth century before our era, of its prowess in war,/ of the great men it produced, of its learning and its art, the most advanced in Western Asia.
Page 16 - Mussulman could verywell stop a Christian in the street and calmly behead him in order to test that his sword was in good condition. The rayahs...
Page 17 - But the mass of the people persisted, and still persist, in remaining, in spite of all drawbacks, on the soil of their ancient fatherland, and in maintaining the existence of their national individuality, their traditions, their institutions, their language and their culture...
Page 18 - In the Armenians we have a people who are peculiarly adapted to be the intermediaries of the new dispensation. They profess our religion, are familiar with some of our best ideals, and assimilate each new product of European culture with an avidity and thoroughness which no other race between India and the Mediterranean has given any evidence of being able to rival. These capacities they have made manifest under the greatest of disadvantages — as a subject race ministering to the needs of Mussulman...
Page x - a magnificent home of Christian art an Asiatic sister to Byzantium.