 | John L. Stephens - 1841 - 722 pages
...and known people. What we had before our eyes was grand, curious, and remarkable enough. Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these... | |
 | Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - 1844 - 304 pages
...intellect. * * * "What we had before our eyes was grand, curious, and remarkable enough. Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...of nations, reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these... | |
 | Henry Brown - 1844 - 524 pages
..."IIere,'' says Stephens, "were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who have passed through all the stages incident to the rise...nations — reached their golden age, and perished entirely unknown : the links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 pages
...original energy had already vanished. " Here," says Mr. Stephens, by the ruins of Palenque, " here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown." * Those ruins were visited again three years ago by Captain Lindesay Brine, RN He... | |
 | 1851 - 980 pages
...er folgende Bemerkung bei : Wbat we had before our eyes waa grand, curious and remarkable. Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed trongh all tbe slages iucident to the rise and fall of nations; reached their golden age, and perished... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1856 - 566 pages
...curiosity which will lead to further discoveries. In conclusion, Mr. Stephens remarks : — Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these... | |
 | William Linton - 1862 - 174 pages
...most private dwellings were among the ancients, of materials too perishable to endure. " Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...of nations; reached their golden age, and perished ; entirely unknown we lived in the ruined palace of their kings ; we went up to their desolate temples... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pages
...actual observations from theories subsequently made to harmonize with Morton's Typical American Race.1 At Palenque he recognised the remains of a cultivated,...to Honduras, by the Lake of Peten, must have passed within a few leagues of the city ; but its ruins were already desolate as now, or it cannot be doubted... | |
 | Estelle Anna LEWIS - 1866 - 490 pages
...intellect. * * * " What we had before our eyes was grand, curious, and remarkable enough. Hero were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar...of nations, reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost, and these... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...moral effect, and giving an intensity and almost wildness to the interest 7. There were the remains of cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had...nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. The links which connected them with the human family were severed and lost ; and... | |
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Here were the remains of a cultivated, polished, and peculiar people, who had passed through all the stages incident to the rise and fall of nations ; reached their golden age, and perished, entirely unknown. 
