 | 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 - 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...The stones thus placed, they oftentimes poized so equably, that they were affected with the least external force : nay a breath of wind would sometimes... | |
 | Jacob Bryant - 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 - 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 - 1809 - 448 pages
...ANT tells us, " thai the egyptians look" ed upon fragments of rocks, with a degree of vene" ration; and, some of them they kept, as they found " them,...*' religious memorial. The stones thus placed, they " oftpntiines prized so.equally, that they were affected " with the least external force ; nay, a breath... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 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 - 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 of wind would... | |
 | William Gilpin, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 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... | |
 | 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 - 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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It was usual, with much labour, to place one vast stone upon another for a religious memorial. 
