Twelve Lectures on Primitive Civilizations and Their Physical Conditions |
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Ægean Africa ages ancient Arabia Arabs arts Aryan Asia Asia Minor Babylon Babylonians barbarous beauty Berbers Boeotia Book of Kings called Canaanites Carthage causes Celts century B.C. Chaldeans character cities civiliza civilization climate coast commerce contrast cultivation culture desert developed dialect doubt earliest early effects Egypt Egyptians Empire Europe fact forests globe gold Greece Greeks habits Hebrews Hence Herodotus historians Homer idea Indians influence inhabitants islands Julius Cæsar kings labour land language lecture live lower classes Lycians Mediterranean Melkart ment Mesopotamia mighty mind mountains nations nature neighbours never Nile original Osiris Palestine peculiar Phoenicians Phrygian Music picture plains political present primitive produced Red Sea religion remarkable rich rivers Roman savage seems Semitic Sidon soil speak Syria Tarshish temple things tion trade tribes Tyre valley wealth West wild wonder worship
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Page 21 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Page 101 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Page 72 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Page 164 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, And which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, Nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 155 - Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats : in these were they thy merchants. The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, EzekieFs Description. 155 they were thy merchants : they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Page 154 - They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war : they hanged the shield and helmet in thee ; they set forth thy comeliness. The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about...
Page 164 - Surely there is a vein for the silver, And a place for gold where they fine it. Iron is taken out of the earth, And brass is molten out of the stone.
Page 144 - I return your recompence upon your own head ; because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Page 153 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
Page 129 - The devotions of our great maritime empire find a natural expression in the numerous allusions, which no inland situation could have permitted, to the roar of the Mediterranean sea, breaking over the rocks of Acre and Tyre, — " the floods lift up their voice, the floods lift up their waves...