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... temples and places of worship to denote their religious ideas . Monumental antiquities perpetu- ate also epochs and occurrences , as well as national character- istics . Truth - telling remnants , which have escaped the ship- wreck of ...
... temples and places of worship to denote their religious ideas . Monumental antiquities perpetu- ate also epochs and occurrences , as well as national character- istics . Truth - telling remnants , which have escaped the ship- wreck of ...
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... temples levelled with the ground and cities razed - all from the lowest motives of policy , or from the blind zeal of superstition . A frightful chasm has thus been made in the primitive history of this continent , irremediable if we ...
... temples levelled with the ground and cities razed - all from the lowest motives of policy , or from the blind zeal of superstition . A frightful chasm has thus been made in the primitive history of this continent , irremediable if we ...
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... temples , some , of the most massive and durable dimensions , and all indicating the existence of a population permanently established . But we are not to sup- pose that they are all of contemporaneous origin ; and for this as well as ...
... temples , some , of the most massive and durable dimensions , and all indicating the existence of a population permanently established . But we are not to sup- pose that they are all of contemporaneous origin ; and for this as well as ...
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... temples and pyramids now standing in solitude . Its solution rests in the fact , that , like all primitive people , while the houses of their princes and their gods were erected in the most durable manner , with the greatest labor , of ...
... temples and pyramids now standing in solitude . Its solution rests in the fact , that , like all primitive people , while the houses of their princes and their gods were erected in the most durable manner , with the greatest labor , of ...
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... temples , those of the old world ; and roads , aqueducts and other public works , seldom excelled in massiveness , durability , and grandeur . The inhabitants were clothed , the soil was tilled , many of the arts had been carried to a ...
... temples , those of the old world ; and roads , aqueducts and other public works , seldom excelled in massiveness , durability , and grandeur . The inhabitants were clothed , the soil was tilled , many of the arts had been carried to a ...
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