The Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, and Their Progress Among the Most Ancient Nations, Volumen3A. Donaldson and J. Reid, 1761 |
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Página 243 - Phoenicians , eians ; the Greeks were yet very ignorant in the time of Cyrus, the epocha of the third and laft part of our work. Near two ages elapfed between thofe which clofe our refearches, and the times in which the Greeks made moft of the difcoveries which obtained them that glory and juft efteem they yet at prefent enjoy, and of which nothing can ever rob them.
Página 305 - The Chinese annals recount that, " in the beginning, men differed in nothing from other animals in their way of life. As they wandered up and down in the woods, and women were in common, it happened that children never knew their fathers, but only their mothers.
Página 133 - Gouget has made the fame obfervation ; " The ignorance of the European Greeks in geogra" phy, fays he, was extreme in all refpefts, during
Página 144 - I am a city of perfect beauty. Thy neighbours, who built thee, have forgot nothing to embellish thee. They have made the hull and the diverse stories of thy ships of the fir-trees of Senir. They have taken a cedar from Lebanon, to make thee a mast. They have polished the oaks of Bashan, to make thine oars. They have employed the ivory of the Indies, to make benches for thy rowers; and that . which comes from Italy, to make thy chambers. Fine linen, with brcidered work from Egypt, was that which thou...
Página 145 - ... colour. Dan, Greece, and Mosel, traded in thy markets, iron works, and myrrh, and calamus. Arabia, and the princes of Kedar, were also thy merchants ; they brought thee their lambs, and rams, and goats.
Página 59 - Babylonians, however, were not the only people who were ignorant of the art of turning an arch. This fecret, as far as I can find, was unknown to all the people of remote antiquity, who, generally fpeaking, do not appear to have been very (kilful in Hone-cutting.
Página 243 - It mult be allowed, that, if we except architecture, fculpture, and the graving of precious ftones, no comparifon can be made between what the Greeks knew of the objects I have juft indicated, and what we know of them at prefent.
Página 206 - As to the fcienees and the belles lettres, it is well known, they were never held in any honour by the Spartans. This people contented themfelves with learning jull as much of thefe things, as were fufficient for the commoneft purpofes of life.
Página 56 - We may reduce all thefe objecls to five principal heads: i. the height of its walls, 2. the temple of Belus, 3. the hanging gardens, 4. the bridge built over the river Euphrates, and the quays which lined that river, 5. the lake and canals dug by the hand of man to distribute the waters of the Euphrates. All thefe works fo marvellous in the judgment of antiquity, appear to me ro have been extremely exaggerated by the authors who have fpoke of them.
Página 59 - This edifice was abfolutely without grace, or any air of majefty. The breadth of it was in no fort of proportion to its length *. The diftance between the piers was alfo very ill contrived. They were...