 | Robert George Hobbes - 1893 - 594 דפים
...flourished, and all the great events of history took place. " All our Religion, almost all our Law, almost all our Arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come from the shores of the Mediterranean." And we cannot sail far on this sea without viewing land. Yonder... | |
 | Rev. A. Scott (of Rothbury.) - 1894 - 154 דפים
...religion being patriarchial, was in life and death symbolic. Dr. Johnson remarks : All our religion, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean. Here race has succeeded race ; the sceptre has passed from nation to nation through the historical... | |
 | United States Naval Institute - 1898 - 1114 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." It was on the eastern shores of that sea, too, that commerce and navigation took their rise and where... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 224 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." Paoli, who as a Corsican must have rejoiced in this, remarked : " The Mediterranean would be a noble... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 דפים
...; 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." We talked of translation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 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." We talked of translation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 דפים
...; 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 MEDITEBBANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem.' We talked of translation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 דפים
...; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, sland, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans a shoresof the Mediterranean.' The General observed, that ' THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 דפים
...Empires of the the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, aln our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has conn from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed that MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble... | |
 | Charles Thomas-Stanford - 1912 - 402 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 Doctor's aspirations were doubtless confined to its northern shore. If he had indiscreetly placed... | |
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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... 
