This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...the oriental term--Barrows. a The face or general appearance of a country, in every part of the world, may be considered as a faithful index of the state of that country with regard to civilization and refinement. That portion of the earth which was occupied by the pastoral and itinerant tribes of mankind in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...the oriental term--Barrows. a The face or general appearance of a country, in every part of the world, may be considered as a faithful index of the state of that country with regard to civilization and refinement. That portion of the earth which was occupied by the pastoral and itinerant tribes of mankind in the earliest times, would present a very different appearance to that which it exhibited in after ages, in consequence of the attention and industry of a more settled and enlightened population. The wandering Celts and Scythians, who, with their families, removed from place to place, to seek fresh pasturage for their flocks, would leave no vestiges behind them, by which their course could be traced in after ages, except their sepulchres: these consisted of the turf-clad mound; and remain to this day, in some of the most obscure and desert parts of the world, the only memorials that these now dreary solitudes, were ever trodden by the foot of man. But the places that have been occupied by a race of more sedentary, and consequently more refined habits, are distinguished by the vestiges of buildings; particularly of such as were erected for the purposes of religion; by these, the degree of civilization to which the people had attained is clearly indicated;-and the several stages of their progress in refinement are distinctly marked by the gradatory advancement of their public works, from that rude and massy grandeur which characterized the subjects of the preceding Lecture, to the superb and richly-sculptured edifices which will be the subject of our concluding one. There are few countries, if any, in which these progressive transitions, from rudeness to refinement, are so accurately marked by the numerous vestiges of each succeeding period as in Britain. ...
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