 | 1841 - 404 pages
...an unknown people had sounded thc trumpet of ji to say. I believe not. At the rear is an unexplored war? or a temple for the worship of the God of peace?...an intensity and almost wildness to the interest. • • • • • 4 "It is impossible to describe the interest with which I explored these ruins.... | |
 | 1841 - 570 pages
...circumstance increased it. In Egypt, the colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand, in the unwatered sands, in all the nakedness of desolation ; here,...an intensity and almost wildness to the interest." — Vol. ip 104. As the antiquities of Copan are less known than most others in Central America, it... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1841 - 602 pages
...circumstance increased it. In Egypt, the colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand, in the unwatered sands, in all the nakedness of desolation ; here,...and giving an intensity and almost wildness to the interest."—Vol. ip 104. As the antiquities of Copan are less known than most others in Central America,... | |
 | 1841 - 580 pages
...unwatered sands, m all the nakedness of desolation ; here, an immense forest, shrouded in ruins, hilling them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving an intensity and almost wilflness to the interest.'' The following extract, which we regret our limits forbid us from extending,... | |
 | Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 526 pages
...circumstance increased it. In Egypt, the colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands, in all the nakedness of desolation ; here,...an intensity and almost wildness to the interest. " The extent of this ruined city along the river, is more than two miles. There is one monument on... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 680 pages
...destruction. All was mystery,— dark, impenetrable mystery ; arid every circumstance increased it. An immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding them...heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving on intensity and almost wildness to the interest." 6. 'The ruins extend along the river more than two... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Indians of North America - 1847 - 732 pages
...destruction. All was mystery,— dark, impenetrable mystery ; and every circumstance increased it. An immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral eifect, and giving an intensity and almost wildness to the interest." 6. 'The ruins extend along the... | |
 | George Oliver - Freemasonry - 1849 - 190 pages
...stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation ; — here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the...an intensity and almost wildness to the interest." One thing however is quite certain. These ruins exhibit a knowledge of the sciences, which is not surpassed... | |
 | Robert Macoy - Freemasons - 1855 - 448 pages
...stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation; — here an immense forest shrouds the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the...an intensity and almost wildness to the interest." One thing, however, is quite certain. These ruins exhibit a knowledge of the sciences, which is not... | |
 | Baptists - 1855 - 878 pages
...whicheverycircumstanceincreaeed. In ' Egypt the colossal skeletons of gigantic ' temples stand in the unwatered sands " in all the nakedness of desolation ; '' here...forest shrouded the " ruins, hiding them from sight, height'' ening the impression and moral effect, "and giving an intensity and almost " wildness to the... | |
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In Egypt the colossal skeletons of gigantic temples stand in the unwatered sands in all the nakedness of desolation; here an immense forest shrouded the ruins, hiding them from sight, heightening the impression and moral effect, and giving an intensity... 
