| English essays - 1826 - 722 pages
...Argonaut, biv 1671 — 6. Upon these lines Bryant has the following note. " It was usual with the ancients to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they poised so equally, that they were affected with the least external force. A breath of wind would sometimes... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 448 pages
...: and this practice seems to have prevailed in many other countries. It was usual with much labour to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they oftentimes poized so equably, that they were affected with the least external force : nay a breath... | |
| Jacob Bryant - History, Ancient - 1807 - 448 pages
...Egyptians looked upon these with a degree of veneration : and some of them they left, as they found 1C them, with perhaps only an hieroglyphic. Others they shaped with tools, and formed into various devices. Th« Sphinx seems to have been originally a vast rock of different strata: which from a shapeless... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Folklore and history - 1807 - 454 pages
...Egyptians looked upon these with a degree of veneration : and some of them they left, as they found 10 them, with perhaps only an hieroglyphic. Others they shaped with tools, and formed into various devices. The Sphinx seems to have been originally a vast rock of different strata : which from a shapeless... | |
| Ely Hargrove - Harrogate (England) - 1809 - 454 pages
...BRAYANT tells us, " that the egyptians look" ed upon fragments of rocks, with a degree of vene" cation ; and, some of them they kept, as they found " them,..." religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they " oftentimes poized so equally, that they were affected " with the least external force ; nay, a breath... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 798 pages
...Colulhus, and Tryphiodoriis have made use of it. HiTii. And one still moves] It was usual with the ancients to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial. The stones thus placed they poized so equally, that they were affected frith the least external force: a breath of wind would sometimes... | |
| Thomas Maurice - India - 1812 - 404 pages
...emigrated from Asia. . , " It was usual," says that learned writer, " in -those times, with much labour to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they oftentimes poised so equably, that they were affected with the least external force : nay, a breath... | |
| William Gilpin, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - Wye River - 1826 - 200 pages
...J Such stones were also funeral monuments, for Mr. Bryant says,§ " It was usual with the ancients to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial." The stones thus placed, they poised so equally, that they were affected with the least external force; a breath of wind would sometimes... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1826 - 738 pages
...biv 1671 — 6. Upon these lines Bryant has the following note. " It was usual with the ancients lo place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they poised sa equally, that they were affected with the least external force. A breath of wind would sometimes... | |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, William Gilpin - Wye, River (Wales and England) - 1834 - 216 pages
...answers*. Such stones were also funeral monuments, for Mr. Bryant suys,§ "it was -usual with the ancients to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial." The stones thus placed, they poised so equally, that they were affected with the least external force ; a breath of wind would sometimes... | |
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