| Sir Arthur Helps - Indians, Treatment of - 1855 - 554 pages
...Mexico ofNov-8> that age? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh. The especial attributes of the most beautiful... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - Indians, Treatment of - 1855 - 572 pages
...Mexico ofN°Ta. that age? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh. The especial attributes of the most beautiful... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - History - 1856 - 480 pages
...the Mexico of that age ? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world ; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh. * " Mas como yban sobre aviso, y el general... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 516 pages
...the Mexico of that age ? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred gates of Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh. " The especial attributes of the most beautiful... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 520 pages
...the Mexico of that age? It ought to he one who had seen all the wonders of the world ; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...looked down upon Granada from the Alhambra, and who bad studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred gates of Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh.... | |
| William Dalton - America - 1862 - 556 pages
...Helps tells us, " one ought to have seen all the wonders of the world, and should have for an andience those who had dwelt in Venice and Constantinople,...looked down upon Granada from the Alhambra, and who had stndied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh." And he... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - Mexico - 1871 - 304 pages
...Mexico of 1519. that age ? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...known, of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh. The especial attributes of the most beautiful cities in the world were here conjoined ;... | |
| William Dalton - America - 1872 - 636 pages
...Cortes' time," Arthur Helps tells us, " one ought to have seen all the -wonders of the world, and should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh." And he is right, for it partook of all. Like... | |
| Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 pages
...the Mexico of that age ? It ought to be one who had seen all the wonders of the world ; and he should have for an audience those who had dwelt in Venice...or known of the hundred-gated Thebes of Babylon and of Nineveh. The especial attributes of the most beautiful cities in. the world were here conjoined... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - America - 1902 - 394 pages
...been made of stones of various colours decorated with numerous figures." — BERNAL DIAZ, cap. 87. had dwelt in Venice and Constantinople, who had looked...Alhambra, and who had studied all that remains to be seen of the hundred-gated Thebes, of Babylon, and of Nineveh. The especial attributes of the most beautiful... | |
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