Prehistoric Man: Researches in the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World, Volum 2Macmillan, 1862 |
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Pàgina 10
... Peruvian Indians as something sacred and mysterious . " In all ceremonies , whether religious or warlike , it was introduced for producing smoke at the great offerings , or as the sacrifice itself . During divine worship the priests ...
... Peruvian Indians as something sacred and mysterious . " In all ceremonies , whether religious or warlike , it was introduced for producing smoke at the great offerings , or as the sacrifice itself . During divine worship the priests ...
Pàgina 68
... Peruvian architecture betrays abundant evidence of the same all - pervading centralization which gave form and law to the institutions and arts of that singular people . Its masonry was for the most part as solid and ponderous as it was ...
... Peruvian architecture betrays abundant evidence of the same all - pervading centralization which gave form and law to the institutions and arts of that singular people . Its masonry was for the most part as solid and ponderous as it was ...
Pàgina 69
... Peruvian edifices . The edges of the stone are fitted to each other with the nicest care , and the masonry is frequently polygonal , with the sur- faces unhewn , except where the stones have been care- fully cut and fitted to each other ...
... Peruvian edifices . The edges of the stone are fitted to each other with the nicest care , and the masonry is frequently polygonal , with the sur- faces unhewn , except where the stones have been care- fully cut and fitted to each other ...
Pàgina 70
... Peruvian sites . In some of these , as in a por- tion of the wall of the House of the Virgins of the Sun , in the city of Cuzco , the huge masses of polygonal masonry are of so striking a character as to have be- come objects of common ...
... Peruvian sites . In some of these , as in a por- tion of the wall of the House of the Virgins of the Sun , in the city of Cuzco , the huge masses of polygonal masonry are of so striking a character as to have be- come objects of common ...
Pàgina 71
... Peruvian civilisation . But the most en- during memorials of Inca sovereignty are those associated with the construction and maintenance of the great pub- lic roads , post - houses , and telegraphic corps , by means of which a coherent ...
... Peruvian civilisation . But the most en- during memorials of Inca sovereignty are those associated with the construction and maintenance of the great pub- lic roads , post - houses , and telegraphic corps , by means of which a coherent ...
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Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilisation in the ..., Volum 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Visualització completa - 1876 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volum 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Visualització completa - 1862 |
Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilization in the ..., Volum 2 Sir Daniel Wilson Visualització completa - 1862 |
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Pàgina 97 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Pàgina 378 - In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Pàgina 271 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Pàgina 387 - Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which. they discover the loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know.
Pàgina 427 - Prize Essay for 1877. 8vo. &r. 6d. SMITH— Works by the Rev. BARNARD SMITH, MA, Rector of Glaston, Rutland, late Fellow and Senior Bursar of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA, in their Principles and Application ; with numerous systematically arranged Examples taken from the Cambridge Examination Papers, with especial reference to the Ordinary Examination for the BA Degree.
Pàgina 93 - Egyptians ; one displaced from its pedestal by enormous roots ; another locked in the close embrace of branches of trees, and almost lifted out of the earth ; another hurled to the ground, and bound down by huge vines and creepers ; and one standing, with its altar before it, in a grove of trees which grew around it, seemingly to shade and shroud it as a sacred thing ; in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people.
Pàgina 5 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fumes thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Pàgina 429 - An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions. By PG TAIT, MA, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ; formerly Fellow of St Peter's College, Cambridge. Second Edition. Demy 8vo. 14^.
Pàgina 226 - The nations of America, except those which border the Polar circle, form a single race, characterized by the formation of the skull, the colour of the skin, the extreme thinness of the beard, and the straight glossy hair.
Pàgina 99 - We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed and demolished...