 Southern Asia, in general, is the seat of awful images and associations. As the cradle of the human race, it would alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and...  The Album - Side 1761822Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1821 - 724 sider
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No uiuii can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is afiected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Indostan, &c. The mere antiquity... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sider
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons — no man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of the savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient monumental cruel... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 370 sider
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, their institutions, histories, modes of faith, is... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 270 sider
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tiibes elsewhere, affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 358 sider
...alone have a dim and reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...savage tribes elsewhere, affect him in the way that ho is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Indostan, &c. The mere... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sider
...it would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 420 sider
...it 'would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, can affect him in a way that he is affected by the ancient monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 sider
...it would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa, or of savage tribes elsewhere, can affect him in a way that he is affected by the ancient monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions... | |
 | 1872 - 556 sider
...it would have a dim, reverential feeling connected with it. But there are other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions...ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 sider
...other reasons. No man can pretend that the wild, barbarous, and capricious superstitions of Africa affect him in the way that he is affected by the ancient, monumental, cruel, and elaborate religions of Hindostan. The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories, and above all of... | |
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