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 201by Estelle Anna Robinson Lewis - 1844 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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