 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
 | Francis Schroeder - 1846 - 660 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." I think Carthage might have had more special notice from the " gigantic genius." She certainly gave... | |
 | James Pillans - 1847 - 300 strani
...: — 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." by the Alps and the sea ; — in Blyricum, Dalmatia, and Epirus ; — in Greece, reckoning Mount Hsemus,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 strani
...wore- the four preat empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come Co us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' The General observed, that 4 The Mediterranean ' would... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 372 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, almost all that sets us ahove savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' The General ohserved, that ' The... | |
 | 1876 - 594 strani
...— At p. 298 of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1827 edition), I find the Doctor remarking :— " 'All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts,...from the shores of the Mediterranean.' The General [Paoli] observed that ' the Mediterranean would be a noble subject for a poem.' " This conversation... | |
 | 1849 - 710 strani
...are scattered throughout the Mediterranean — that renowned sea of which it has been said that " all our " religion, almost all our law, almost all our...that sets us above " savages, has come to us from its shores." The mariner who doubles " the " Cape," so long a barrier to the enterprise of the West,... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - 1849 - 436 strani
...succession the four great monarchies — the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman : and " all our religion — almost all our law — almost all...our arts — almost all that sets us above savages, have come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.":]; The mariner's compass has opened the gates... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1850 - 876 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,...Mediterranean' would be a noble subject for a poem." — Life of Johnson, vol. vp 145, ed. 1835.] « [" This passage would, perhaps, be read without emotion,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 328 strani
...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,...from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General ohserved, that " THK MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem." We talked of translation.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852
...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." The General observed, that " THE MEDITERRANRAN would be a noble subject for a poem." We talked of translation. I said, I could not define... | |
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