The Ruins: Or, A Survey of the Revolutions of EmpiresS. Shaw, 1822 - 320 էջ |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 63–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 20
... Heaven , loaded with gifts of grace and mi- racles ? Why then is this race , so divinely privileged , deprived of those favours which were formerly showered down upon the Hea- then ? Why are these lands , consecrated by the blood of the ...
... Heaven , loaded with gifts of grace and mi- racles ? Why then is this race , so divinely privileged , deprived of those favours which were formerly showered down upon the Hea- then ? Why are these lands , consecrated by the blood of the ...
Էջ 23
... heaven with unjust complaints ? How long will he vent his idle and clamorous ac- cusations against Fate , the presumptive au- thor of his calamities ? Will he never open his eyes to the light , and his heart to the sug- gestions of ...
... heaven with unjust complaints ? How long will he vent his idle and clamorous ac- cusations against Fate , the presumptive au- thor of his calamities ? Will he never open his eyes to the light , and his heart to the sug- gestions of ...
Էջ 24
... heaven and earth of man , their calumniator ! " What is this blind fatality , that capricious- ly sports , without rule and laws , with the lot of mortals ? What this unjust , this merciless and cruel necessity , which frustrates and ...
... heaven and earth of man , their calumniator ! " What is this blind fatality , that capricious- ly sports , without rule and laws , with the lot of mortals ? What this unjust , this merciless and cruel necessity , which frustrates and ...
Էջ 25
... Heaven , or to human imprudence ? When war , famine , and pestilence united , have , by a torrent of evils , swept away the inhabit- ants , and the land has become a desert , is it God , who has depopulated it ? Is it his rapa- city ...
... Heaven , or to human imprudence ? When war , famine , and pestilence united , have , by a torrent of evils , swept away the inhabit- ants , and the land has become a desert , is it God , who has depopulated it ? Is it his rapa- city ...
Էջ 26
... Heaven ! If God be good , will he make him- self instrumental to your punishment ? If he be just , will he be the accomplice of your crimes ? No , no ; the caprice and inconstan- cy , of which man so loudly complains , is not the ...
... Heaven ! If God be good , will he make him- self instrumental to your punishment ? If he be just , will he be the accomplice of your crimes ? No , no ; the caprice and inconstan- cy , of which man so loudly complains , is not the ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
The Ruins: Or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (Classic Reprint) Constantin-François Volney Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2018 |
The Ruins: Or, a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires Constantin-François Volney Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2018 |
The Ruins: Or, a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires Constantin-Francois Volney Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
action ages Ahrimanes ancient animals became become body called Cassimere cause celestial celestial sphere celestial Virgin CHAP chiefs Christian civil consequence constellations desert despotism Divinity doctrine earth Egypt Egyptians emblem empire enjoyments equal equipoise eternal Euphrates evil existence eyes Genii Genius globe Gods hand happiness heart heaven Hence ideas Idumea ignorance immense individual inhabitants Jews justice kings Kneph labour laws legislators ligion living maleficent mankind means ment mind Mithra moral multitude Mussulmen mysteries nations nature Note observed opinions oppressed origin Osiris palaces passions Persians Plutarch Porphyry pretended priests principles prophet reason religion religious ruins sacred savage nations says SECT senses serpent Sidon society soul species spirit stars Syria Tartars temples Thebes thing thou tion truth Typhon tyrants universe virtue whole words worship yourselves Zoroaster
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 280 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one "thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other ; yea, they have all one br,, ith ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. " 20. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Էջ 246 - III.) to be of greater antiquity than any other nation ; and it is probable, that, born under the sun's path, its warmth may have ripened them earlier than other men. They suppose themselves also to be the inventors of divine worship, of festivals, of solemn assemblies, of sacrifices, and every other religious practice.
Էջ 254 - In the Declaration of Rights, there is an inversion of ideas in the first article, liberty being placed before equality, from which it in reality springs. This defect is not to be wondered at ; the science of the rights of man is a new science : it was invented yesterday by the Americans, to-day the French are perfecting it, but there yet remains a great deal to be done. In the ideas that constitute it there is a genealogical order which, from its basis, physical equality, to the minutest and most...
Էջ 288 - represents a beautiful virgin with flowing hair ; sitting in a chair, with two ears of corn in her hand, and suckling an infant, called Jesus by some nations, and Christ in Greek.
Էջ x - Where are those ramparts of Nineveh, those walls of Babylon, those palaces of Persepolis, those temples of Balbec and of Jerusalem?
Էջ 263 - Tacitus (Annul, lib. 15. c. 44), and the Gospels. But the passage in Josephus is unanimously acknowledged to be apocryphal, and to have been interpolated towards the close of the third century (See Trad, de Josephe, par M.
Էջ 221 - 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.
Էջ 247 - ... of the sciences, and of consequence that the first learned nation was a nation of blacks; for it is incontrovertible, that by the term Ethiopians the ancients meant to represent a people of black complexion, thick lips, and woolly hair. I am therefore inclined to believe, that the inhabitants of Lower Egypt were originally a foreign colony imported from Syria and Arabia, a medley of different tribes of savages, originally shepherds and fishermen, who, by degrees formed themselves into a nation,...
Էջ 266 - Plutarch, from the verses of Orpheus and the sacred books of the Egyptians and Phrygians, that the ancient theology, not only of the Greeks but of all nations, was nothing more than a system of physics, a picture of the operations of nature, wrapped up in...
Էջ 278 - I find the analogy between it and theelectrial fluid. A luminous fluid, principle of warmth and motion, pervading the universe, forming the matter of the stars, having small round particles, which insinuate themselves into bodies, and fill them by dilating itself, be their extent what it will. What can more strongly resemble electricity?