 | Richard Whately - 1853 - 448 pagina’s
...me Megara ; on my right I saw Pirseeus,t and on my left Corinth.J These cities, once BO nourishing and magnificent, now presented nothing to my view...said to myself, ' shall such a short-lived creature aa man complain, when one of his species falls either by the hand of violence, or by the common course... | |
 | 1854 - 778 pagina’s
...countries : " Behind me lay ^Egina, before me Megara ; on my right I saw Piraus, and on my left Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent,...nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of desolation." And he then proceeds with his melancholy reflections on so many perishing memorials of human glory... | |
 | George Wilkins - 1856 - 218 pagina’s
...countries. Behind me lay Mgina, before me Megara ; on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left Corinth. These cities once so flourishing and magnificent,...creature as man complain when one of his species falls in the common course of nature, whilst in this narrow compass of time so many great and glorious cities,... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1864 - 430 pagina’s
...countries. Behind me lay JEgma, before me Megara : on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left, Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent,...nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of desolation. .AT . ' • I -nd to myself, 'shall such a short-live t +n vourself what numbers of our ilius to represent... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 352 pagina’s
...countries. Behind me lay JEgina, before me Megara ; on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent,...short-lived creature as man complain, when one of his race falls either by the hand of violence, or by the common course of nature : while in this narrow... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy H. Boyd - 1865 - 346 pagina’s
...me lay ^Egina, before me Megara; on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left Corinth. These VOL. II. O cities, once so flourishing and magnificent, now presented...short-lived creature as man complain, when one of his race falls either by the hand of violence, or by the common course of nature : while in this narrow... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 346 pagina’s
...lay .flDgina, before me Megara ; on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left Corinth. These VOL. II. O cities, once so flourishing and magnificent, now presented...short-lived creature as man complain, when one of his race falls either by the hand of violence, or by the common course of nature : while in this narrow... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 2007 - 25 pagina’s
...'As I was sailing from Aegina towards Megara ... on my right I saw Piraeus, and on my left, Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent,...nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of desolation . . .' (The Letters of MT Cicero to several of his Friends, 3 vols., 1772, iii 6-13). (3) Darwin's... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 596 pagina’s
...countries. Behind me lay JSgina, before me Megara ; on my right I saw the Piraeus, and on my left, Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent,...to myself, shall such a short-lived creature as man com plain, when one of his species falls, either by the hand of violence, or by the common course of... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 594 pagina’s
...countries. Behind me lay JEgina, before me Megara, on my right was Piraus, and on my left Corinth. These cities, once so flourishing and magnificent,...desolation. Alas ! I said to myself, shall such a short lived creature as man, complain when one of his species falls, either by the hand of violence... | |
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O cities, once so flourishing and magnificent, now presented nothing to my view but a sad spectacle of desolation. Alas, I said to myself, shall such a short-lived creature as man complain, when one of his... 