 | John L. Stephens - 1841 - 508 pages
...is decidedly that of a man. The beard is of a curious fashion, and joined to the mustache and hair. The ears are large, though not resembling nature ;...mouth partly open, and the eyeballs seem starting from the sockets ; the intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror. The feet are ornamented... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1841 - 534 pages
...resembling nature ; the expression is grand, the mouth partly open, and the eyeballs seem starting from the sockets ; the intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror. The feet are ornamented with sandals, probably of the skins of some wild animals, in the fashion of... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...describes another idol : " The beard is of a curious fashion, and joined to the moustache and hair. The ears are large, though not resembling nature ;...the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror. Tha feet are ornamented with sandals, probably of the skin of some Wild animals) in the fashion of... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pages
...is decidedly that of a man. The beard is of a curious fashion, and joined to the mustache and hair. The ears are large, though not resembling nature;...mouth partly open, and the eyeballs seem starting from the sockets ; the intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror. The feet are ornamented... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 722 pages
...durch Bilder t» concreto verständlich zu machen suchten." M1 Thus, of one of the idols at Copan, " The intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror." Stephens' s Central America, vol. ip 152; at p. 159, " The form of sculpture most generally used was... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 752 pages
...durch Bilder in concreto verständlich zu machen suchten." '" Thus, of one of the idols at Copan, " The intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror." Stephens Central America, vol. ip 152; at p. 159, " The form of sculpture most generally used was a... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1904 - 976 pages
...carbonized fluid.b Now, the connexion between this process 241 Thus, of one of the idols at Copan, " The intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror." Stephens's Central America, vol. ip 152 ; at p. 159, " The form of sculpture most generally used was... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 pages
...other hand, by the finite, the skeptical, the analytic, and the 1 Thus, of one of the idols at Copan, " The intention of the sculptor seems to have been to excite terror" (Stephens' Central America, Vol. I, p. 152); at p. 159, "The form of sculpture most generally used... | |
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idol" is decidedly that of a man. The beard is of a curious fashion, and joined to the mustache and hair. The ears are large, though not resembling nature ; the expression is grand, the mouth partly open, and the eyeballs seem starting from the sockets... 