But in those items the
ancient was intact, although one leg ceased midway between knee and thigh.
For generations they have not numbered more than one or two hundred, but they still adhere to their
ancient faith and maintain their
ancient rites and ceremonies.
Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which
ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own aims- the welfare of the French, German, or English people, or, in its highest abstraction, the welfare and civilization of humanity in general, by which is usually meant that of the peoples occupying a small northwesterly portion of a large continent.
The most common case, especially with respect to very distinct groups, such as fish and reptiles, seems to be, that supposing them to be distinguished at the present day from each other by a dozen characters, the
ancient members of the same two groups would be distinguished by a somewhat lesser number of characters, so that the two groups, though formerly quite distinct, at that period made some small approach to each other.
Among the books and papers of Admiral Porter Turck, who lived two hundred years ago, and from whom I am descended, many volumes still exist, and are in my possession, which deal with the history and geography of
ancient Europe.
A dolorous place it was, this canoe house, filled with groans and sighs, corpses beneath the floor and composing the floor, creatures soon to be corpses upon the floor, corpses swinging in aerial sepulchre overhead, long black canoes, high-ended like beaked predatory monsters, dimly looming in the light of a slow fire where sat an
ancient of the tribe of Somo at his interminable task of smoke-curing a bushman's head.
can easily reconstruct in their minds the aggregate of edifices to which it belonged, and find again entire in it the
ancient Gothic place of the fifteenth century.
There were archways; temples; public squares; and images, not at all beautiful, for they seemed to be of man-monsters--doubtless
ancient gods.
Unlike
ancient philosophy, it has been unaffected by impressions derived from outward nature: it arose within the limits of the mind itself.
But the peculiar tale of this nature to which the author of Ivanhoe has to acknowledge an obligation, is more
ancient by two centuries than any of these last mentioned.
You were speaking of the opinions of
ancient historians upon the dangerous navigation of the Red Sea.
These, then, are the two different sorts of these monarchies, and another is that which in
ancient Greece they called
