 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 294 דפים
...shores," says our great moralist, " were " the four great empires of the world — the As" syrian, Persian, Greek and Roman. — All our " religion,...come to " us from the shores of the Mediterranean." • The tourist who can command his time, or who is not pressed by imperious circumstances, might easily... | |
 | James Pillans - 1854 - 292 דפים
...shores were the four great empires of the world :—the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." In this circuit, we shall find ourselves successively, —in the Spanish Peninsula;—in Gaul, having... | |
 | Church of England young men's society - 1854 - 464 דפים
...those shores were the four great empires of the world—the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost...that sets us above savages, has come to us from the Mediterranean." All that we know of navigation during the early period, with one or two exceptions,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 דפים
...world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' The general observed, that' The Mediterranean' would be a noble subject for a poem."—Life of Johnson,... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1854 - 568 דפים
...great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Greek, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' It might appear strange that a coast of such paramount interest should still have required surveying... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 528 דפים
...would probably not have extended beyond Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed, that THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem."—Boswell, vol.... | |
 | 1856 - 602 דפים
...Dr. Johnson remarked in one of his recorded conversations : " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." There race has succeeded race ; the sceptre has passed from nation to nation, through the historical... | |
 | Hwfa Môn - 1856 - 542 דפים
...world— the Assyrian, the Grec:an, the Persian, and the Roman. All our rel:gion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." — Dr. Johnson. О ddirfawr Рог ! уг lor wyt, Ni wadaf fy nuw ydwyt. Ac ax dy fin y ptjriliuiaf,... | |
 | 1856 - 434 דפים
...Dr Johnson remarked in one of his recorded conversations : " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." There race has succeeded race ; the sceptre has passed- from nation to nation, through the historical... | |
 | 1856 - 948 דפים
...Dr Johnson remarked in one of his recorded conversations : " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." There race has succeeded race ; the sceptre has passed from nation to nation, through the historical... | |
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The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost... 
