Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" We could not but regard it as a holy place, dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religious observances of a lost and unknown people. Comparatively, the hand of ruin has spared it, and the great tablet, surviving the wreck of elements, stands... "
Records of the Heart - Page 201
by Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - 1844 - 255 pages
Full view - About this book

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume 2

John L. Stephens - Central America - 1841 - 638 pages
...regard it as a holy place, dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religious observances of a lost and unknown people. Comparatively, the hand of ruin...the most scrutinizing gaze and reach of intellect. Even our friends the padres could make nothing of it. Near this, on the top of another pyramidal structure,...
Full view - About this book

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume 2

John L. Stephens - Central America - 1845 - 654 pages
...regard it as a holy place, dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religious observances of a lost and unknown people. Comparatively, the hand of ruin...shrine, the figures and characters are distinct as %vhen the people who reared it went up to pay their adorations before it. To us it was all a mystery...
Full view - About this book

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan

John L. Stephens - Central America - 1854 - 638 pages
...regard it as a holy place, dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religious observances of a lost and unknown people. Comparatively, the hand of ruin...us it was all a mystery; silent, defying the most scrutinising gaze and reach of intellect. Even our friends the padres could make nothing of it. Near...
Full view - About this book

The Wonders of the World, in Nature, Art, and Mind ...

Robert Sears - Curiosities and wonders - 1856 - 566 pages
...regard it as a holy place, dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religious observances of a lost and unknown people. Comparatively, the hand of ruin...and characters are distinct as when the people who ieared it went up to pay their adorations before it. To us it was all a mystery — silent, defying...
Full view - About this book

Records of the Heart, and Other Poems

Estelle Anna LEWIS - American poetry - 1866 - 490 pages
...We conld not but regard it as a holy place. dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religions observances of a past and unknown people. Comparatively...mystery ; silent, defying the most scrutinizing gaze and roach of intellect. * * * " What we had before our eyes was grand, curious, and remarkable enough....
Full view - About this book

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume 2

John L. Stephens - Central America - 1871 - 592 pages
...regard it as a holy place, dedicated to the gods, and consecrated by the religious observances of a lost and unknown people. Comparatively, the hand of ruin...mystery ; silent, defying the most scrutinizing gaze imd reach of intellect. Even our friends the padres .•oiild make nothing of it. Near this, on the...
Full view - About this book

Pipes and Smoking Customs of the American Aborigines, Based on Material in ...

Joseph D. McGuire - Indians of North America - 1899 - 324 pages
...leopard skin on the back, the beak and eyes of the bird on the headdress of Tlaloc," says Stevens, "was all a mystery, silent, defying the most scrutinizing gaze and reach of the intellect." The snake so prominent on this slab appears as a garment of snakes ou the statue of...
Full view - About this book

American Geographics: U.S. National Narratives and the Representation of the ...

Bruce A. Harvey - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 348 pages
...mystery" (1:105) he says of the Copan ruins; later, examining a wall tablet at Palenque, he remarks that to "us it was all a mystery; silent, defying the most scrutinizing gaze and reach of intellect" (2:354). Stephens, even after his second trip, admitted that he and Gatherwood could ascertain very...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF