Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories — above all, of their mythologies, &c. — is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man... Confessions of an English Opium-eater - Page 72by Thomas De Quincey - 1847 - 49 pagesFull view - About this book
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...above all, of their mythologies, &c. — is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through some immemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, &c. , is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of гл-itee that have flowed apart, and refused to mix, through such immemorial tracts of time; nor can... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...histories, and above all of their mythologies, is so impressive that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings that... | |
| Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...institutions, histories and modes of faith is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...young Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. 3. Even Englishmen, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 654 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...sublimity of castes that have flowed apart, and refused to mir, through such immemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the names of the Ganges,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - Opium abuse - 1876 - 640 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic sublimity of rastes that have flowed apart, and refused to mir, through such immemorial tracts of time ; nor can... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...above all, of their mythologies, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1878 - 350 pages
...above all, of their mythologies, &c., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...tracts of time; nor can any man fail to be awed by the sanctity of the Ganges, or by the very name of the Euphrates. It contributes much to these feelings,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...institutions, histories, modes of faith, etc., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...have flowed apart, and refused to mix through such ¡inmemorial tracts of time ; nor can any man fail to be awed by the names of the Cîanges or the Euphrates.... | |
| Samuel Davey - English literature - 1879 - 302 pages
...histories, above all, of their mythologies, is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual. A...Chinese seems to me an antediluvian man renewed. Even an Englishman, though not bred in any knowledge of such institutions, cannot but shudder at the mystic... | |
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