... you begin to inquire if any tradition, if any the faintest records can throw any light upon these habitations of men of another age. Is there no scope beside these mounds for imagination, and for contemplation of the past ? The men, their joys, their... The Indian and Antiquities of America - الصفحة 258بواسطة Barnard Shipp - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 451عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Lyman Cobb - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...their sorrows, their bones, are all buried together. But ihe grand features of nature remain. Thera is the beautiful prairie, over which they " strutted...forests, the hills, the mounds, lift their heads in unal. terable repose, end furnish the game sources of contemplation to ue, that they did to those generations... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...tradition, if any, the faintest, records can throw any light upon these habitations of men of another «ge. Is there no scope, beside these mounds, for imagination,...guilty dens of petty tyrants, who let loose their half savage vassals to burn, plunder, enslave, and despoil an adjoining den. There are no remains of... | |
| John Pierpont - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 278
...their breast-works and ditches, it discovers, at once, that they are the labours of art and of men. when you see, at once, that these races were of a...guilty dens of petty tyrants, who let loose their half savage vassals to burn, plunder, enslave, and despoil an adjoining den. There are no remains of... | |
| Anonymous - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...prairie, over which they " strutted through life's poor play." The forests, the hills, the mounds, lifl their heads in unalterable repose, and furnish the...they did to those generations that have passed away.' The most liberal American, however, can rarely close, without betraying a little of the sourness that... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...convinces us that human bones moulder in these masses ; when you dig about them, and bring to light domestic utensils, and are compelled to believe that...heads in unalterable repose, and furnish the same sources,pf contemplation to us that they did to those generations that have passed away. These mounds... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...the beautiful prairie over which they " strutted through life's poor play." The forests, thehills, the mounds, lift their heads in unalterable repose,...they did to those generations that have passed away. These mounds must date back to remote depths in the olden time. From the ages of the trees on them,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...together. Bat the grand features of nature remain. There is the beantiful prairie over which they "strntted through life's poor play." The forests, the hills,...they did to those generations that have passed away. These mounds must date hack to remote depths in the olden time. From the ages of the trees on them,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...There is the beautiful prairie over which they " strutted through life's poor play." The forests, tho hills, the mounds, lift their heads in unalterable...they did to those generations that have passed away. These mounds must date back to remote depths in the olden time. From the ages of the trees on them,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...convinces us that human bones moulder in these masses ; when you dig about them, and bring to light domestic utensils, and are compelled to believe that...they did to those generations that have passed away. These mounds must date back to remote depths in the olden time. From the ages of the trees on them,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 812
...bring to light domestic utensils, and are compelled to believe that, the busy tide of life once lowed here ; when you see at once that these races were...they did to those generations that have passed away. These mounds must date back to remote depths in the olden time. From the ages of the trees on them,... | |
| |