 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,...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 294avtor: James Boswell - 1917 - 574 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1853 - 518 strani
...with more confidence, because it would probably not have extended beyond Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem." — Boswell, vol. vi. p. 154. Ed. 1835. A noble subject indeed, — but about as practicable for a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 560 strani
...with more confidence, because it would probably not have extended beyond Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...that THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a peem." — Boswell, vol. vi. p. 154. Ed. 1835. A noble subject indeed, — but about as practicable... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 strani
...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,...The Mediterranean' would be a noble subject for a poem."—Life of Johnson, vol. vp 154, ed. 1835.] CLXXxm. Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 294 strani
...the world — the As" Syrian, Persian, Greek and Roman. — All our " religion, almost all our laws, almost all our arts, " almost all that sets us above...to " us from the shores of the Mediterranean." The tourist who can command his time, or who is not pressed by imperious circumstances, might easily arrange... | |
 | James Pillans - 1854 - 292 strani
...world :—the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." In this circuit, we shall find ourselves successively, —in the Spanish Peninsula;—in Gaul, having... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - 1854 - 568 strani
...great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Greek, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' of which must be ascribed to sundry of its older trammels being thrown overboard, and much to the progressive... | |
 | Church of England young men's society - 1854 - 464 strani
...world—the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the Mediterranean." All that we know of navigation during the early period, with one or two exceptions,... | |
 | 1856 - 434 strani
...clustered around that centre, and as Dr Johnson remarked in one of his recorded conversations : " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." There race has succeeded race ; the sceptre has passed- from nation to nation, through the historical... | |
 | 1856 - 948 strani
...clustered around that centre, and as Dr Johnson remarked in one of his recorded conversations : " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." There race has succeeded race ; the sceptre has passed from nation to nation, through the historical... | |
 | 1856 - 602 strani
...clustered around that centre, and as Dr. Johnson remarked in one of his recorded conversations : " All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." There race has succeeded race; the sceptre has passed from nation to nation, through the historical... | |
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