 ... give way to a wonder not less natural, that such prodigious efforts of labour and skill should remain, from times certainly not barbarous, without a trace to tell us the hand by which they were designed, or the populous and powerful nation by which...  The Hindoos - Pàgina 1971834 - 24 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Josiah Conder - 1828 - 400 pàgines
...which they were designed, or the populous and powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire, whose pride they must have been, has passed away,...toil it was wrought, has been swept from the land." The excavations are divided by Mr. Erskine, with evident propriety, into three classes ; the northern,... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1832 - 348 pàgines
...mythological designs, sacred shrines, and colossal statues, astonish but distract the mind. The empire whose pride they must have been has passed away, and left not a memorial behind it." We may likewise notice Mahabalipoor, known also by the name of the Seven Pagodas, situated about thirty-five... | |
 | Hindus - 1834 - 444 pàgines
...powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire, 18 Heber's Journal, &c. vol.iii.p.112, 113. whose pride they must have been, has passed away,...which, in contempt, is termed by the Brahmins Dehr ff^arra, or " the Halalkhors' 15 Quarter," has during the rains a very picturesque appearance. The... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 390 pàgines
...which they were designed, or the populous and powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire, whose pride they must have been, has passed away,...continues to exist ; but that •which called into exist ence the other, like the beings by whose toil it was wrought, has been swept from the land.'... | |
 | James Bell - 1836 - 690 pàgines
...and powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire, whose pride they must have been, lias passed away, and left not a memorial behind it. The...that which called into existence the other, like the lieings by whose toil it was wrought, has been swept from the bind." The excavations are divided by... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1837 - 388 pàgines
...which they were designed, or the populous and powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire, whose pride they must have been, has passed away,...religion to which we owe one part of them, indeed, 1 Description of India, vol. ii. p. 148, 149. 278 ARCHITECTURE DKHR WARRA CAVE. continues to exist... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pàgines
...mythological designs, sacred shrines, and colossal statues, astonish but distract the mind. The empire whose pride they must have been has passed away, and left not a memorial behind it." We may likewise notice Mahabalipoor, known also by the name of the Seven Pagodas, situated about thirty-five... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 pàgines
...which they were designed, or the populous and powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire whose pride they must have been, has passed away and...exist; but that which called into existence the other, (the Boodhist,) like the beings by whose toil it was wrought, has been swept from the land." The rock... | |
 | 1850 - 386 pàgines
...which they were designed, or the populous and powerful nation by which they were completed. The empire, whose pride they must have been, has passed away,...which, in contempt, is termed by the Brahmins Dehr Warm, or " The Halalkhors Quarters," has during the rains a very picturesque appearance. The large... | |
 | 1850 - 418 pàgines
...mythological designs, sacred shrines, and colossal statues, astonish but distract the miud. The empire, whose pride they must have been, has passed away, and left not a memorial behind it." When we consider the vast extent of British empire in India, and the very partial exploration of some... | |
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