From Independence Hall Around the WorldLevytype Company, 1895 - 199 pàgines "76 half-tone illustrations from photographs collected on the trip, mostly in Asia and India. The Levytype Co. was an active publisher as well as a producer of printing plates. Louis Levy published a number of books throughout the 1890's." -- Hanson collection catalog, p. 121. |
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From Independence Hall Around the World. [With Illustrations.] Frederick Carroll Brewster Visualització completa - 1895 |
From Independence Hall Around the World (Classic Reprint) F. Carroll Brewster Previsualització no disponible - 2015 |
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Pàgina 96 - Darwinian idea of a pre-existing spontaneous tendency to variation as the real cause of the origin of species, but — like Darwin and his School — it stopped short of pointing out Him, who originated the first commencement of that so-called spontaneous tendency...
Pàgina 47 - ... gigantic seated divinity of bronze, with folded hands, and head gently inclined in an attitude of contemplative ecstasy. " The involuntary shock which one feels, on the first appearance of this grand figure, soon gives place to admiration. There is an irresistible charm in the posture of Dai Butsu, in the harmony of his bodily proportions, in the noble simplicity of his drapery, and in the calmness and serenity of his countenance.
Pàgina 13 - Jones was promoted to the rank of captain, and was placed in command of the captured frigate Macedonian.
Pàgina 47 - No other work gives such an impression of majesty or so truly symbolizes the central idea of Buddhism — the intellectual calm which comes of perfected knowledge and the subjugation of all passion.
Pàgina 52 - There had been a temple in this place since the 8th century, but the image is of much later date. Its precise history is involved in obscurity. Tradition, however, says that...
Pàgina 156 - No. 130), except that those at Delhi are much richer and more elaborate. Most of them probably belong to the llth or 12th century, and are among the few specimens to be found in India that seem to be overloaded with ornament. There is not one inch of plain surface from the capital to the base, except the pillars behind the screen and some others which may belong to older buildings.
Pàgina 53 - The eyes are of pure gold, and the silver boss weighs 30 Ibs. avoirdupois. The image is formed of sheets of bronze cast separately, brazed together, and finished off on the outside with the chisel. The hollow interior of the image contains a email shrine, and a ladder leads up into the head.
Pàgina 207 - Lord Dalhousie had not been six months in India before the second Sikh War broke out.
Pàgina 13 - Cook sailed in quest of the great continent then supposed to exist in the South Pacific, and reached the islands of New Zealand, which had remained a terra incognita since the time of their first discovery.
Pàgina 47 - ... a sceptre, in the left a lotus, and wearing a triple tiara, composed of the heads of inferior deities. This is one of the means by which the bonzes excite the superstitious imagination of the people, and keep them in a state of perpetual imbecility. " The monument dedicated to Dai Butsu, that is, Great Buddha, may be considered as the most complete work of the Japanese genius, in regard both to art and to the religious sentiment. The temple of Hachiman has already given us an example of the profit...