 | Constantin-François Volney - 1796 - 432 pages
...places that were the theatre of fo much fplendour, and nothing beheld but folitude and defertion I- I looked for thofe ancient people and their works, and all I could find was a faint brace, like to what the foot of a paflenger leaves on the fand. The temples are thrown down, the palaces... | |
 | 460 pages
...beheld nothing, bat fulitudti and defertion ! I looked for thole ancjent people and their works, and atl I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a paf— fenger leaves on the fsnd. The temples ate thrown down, the palaces demolilhed, the ports filled... | |
 | Constantin François de Chassebœuf comte de Volney - 1835 - 336 pages
...have heheld nothing hut solitude and desertion ? I looked for these ancient people and their work, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves on the sand. The temples are thrown down, the palaces demolished, the ports filled... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...Babylon, tho»f palaces of PersepolU, those temples of Balbec and of Jerusalem I— I looked for those ancient people and their works, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves in the sand." — Voln»y. "Old Memphis hath gone down, The Pharaohs are no more :... | |
 | Constantin-François Volney - 1849 - 256 pages
...theatre of so much splendour, and I have nothing beheld but solitude and'desertion ! I looked for those ancient people and their works, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves on the sand. The temples are thrown down, the palaces demolished, the ports filled... | |
 | Jesuit priest - 1852 - 334 pages
...have beheld nothing but solitude and desertion ? I looked for these ancient people and their work, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves on the sand. The temples are thrown down, the palaces demolished, the ports filled... | |
 | 1858 - 930 pages
...have beheld nothing but solitude and desertion ! I looked for those ancient people and their work, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves on the sand." This is the testimony of a stranger. A stranger not only to the place... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1866 - 440 pages
...theatre of so much splendor, and I have beheld nothing but solitude and desertion ! I looked for those ancient people and their works, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what tbe foot of a passenger leaves on the land. The temples are thrown down, the palaces demolished, the... | |
 | 1792 - 656 pages
...country, I have vifited the places that were the theatre of fo much fplendour, and I have beheld nothing but folitude and defertion ; I looked for thofe ancient...'the fand. The temples are thrown down, the palaces demolished, the ports filled up, the towns dettroyed, and the earth ftript of inhabitants, feems a... | |
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I looked for those ancient people and their works, and all I could find was a faint trace, like to what the foot of a passenger leaves on the sand. 