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, almost... Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land - Page 228by Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. Ail our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." It was observed, that ' THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem.' He upon all occasions... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...; 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...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed, that " THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem." We talked of translation.... | |
| English literature - 1813 - 1102 pages
...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...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' There are few, we imagine, who have not felt the justice of this observation; and it may perhaps be... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...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...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' There are few, we imagine, who have not felt the justice of this observation; and it may perhaps be... | |
| James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...; 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 eome to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed, that " THE MEDITERRANEAN would... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...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...has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean. The General observed, that "THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem. We talked of translation.... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 372 pages
...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 from the shores of the Mediterranean." General Paoli observed, " The Mediterranean would be a noble... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...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...come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed, that " THE MEDITERRANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem." Of a nobleman... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 372 pages
...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 from the shores of the Mediterranean." General Paoli observed, " The Mediterranean would be & noble... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...; 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...come to us from the .shores of the Mediterranean." The General observed, that " THE MEDITERKANEAN would be a noble subject for a poem." We talked of translation.... | |
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