The monuments represented a young man in the act of slaying a bull with a dagger, while all around are human and animal figures, the youth standing for the Sun God who, on subduing Taurus in May, begins to develop his highest power.
This, however, is the grossest of errors, for the world abounds in cruciform symbols and monumentswhich existed long before Christianity was thought of.
Some allusions also to the customs which existed in the earlier ages, and a statement of the different dates as regards the erection and foundation of the various monuments and institutions still extant.
Monuments of the great men of France are now erected here; and amongst the rest the immortal Lafayette.
The monuments of Paris, the gardens, promenades, markets, libraries, etc.
Churches at that period were too often but monuments of superstition for the celebration of mummery, for sheltering criminals, receptacles for pretended relics, and in fact instruments for maintaining the power of priestcraft.
This chapel is one of the most elegant and interesting monumentsin Paris, it is in the form of a cross, with a dome in the centre.
He spent the remaining five years of his life in editing the odes and historic monuments in which the glories of the ancient Chinese dynasty are set forth.
We must give the credit to Confucius of having saved for us the literature of China, and of having set his people an example in preserving the monuments of a remote antiquity.
The same abundance of ancient remains that we found here characterizes the neighbourhood of all the Mexican monuments in the country, with one curious exception.
The resemblances which people find between Assyrian and Egyptian sculptures and the American monuments are of little value, and do not seem sufficient to ground any argument upon.
Were these monuments in Egypt, they would only rank, from their size, in the second class.
As an instance of the tendency of alluvial deposits to entomb such monuments of former ages, I must mention the temple of Segeste, which stands on a gentle slope among the hills of northern Sicily.
Such hard copper axes as these have been found at Mitla, in the State of Oajaca, where the ruined temples seem to form a connecting link between the monuments of Teotihuacán and Xochicalco and the ruined cities of Yucatan and Chiapas.
Though others, and particularly all female visitors, regard them with great complacency as lasting monuments of the fact that women can keep a secret.
The walls had evidently in ancient times been hung with damask; but now were naked, and scrawled over by that class of aspiring travellers who defile noble monuments with their worthless names.
A few broken monuments are all that remain to bear witness to their power and dominion, as solitary rocks, left far in the interior, bear testimony to the extent of some vast inundation.
After seeing innumerable monuments of the same kind throughout the Thebaid, it seemed as if we were now arrived at the highest pitch of architectural excellence that was ever attained on the borders of the Nile.
Aboosimbel, two temples cut in the rock, the finest Egyptian monuments out of Thebes; they are of the time of Rameses II.
In the granite quarries at Assowan, from whence these immense monuments were taken, are two unfinished sarcophagi and an obelisk cut and formed, but still attached to the native rock.
It is a melancholy fact, that the earliest efforts of the Reformers were everywhere directed against those monuments of genius which had been created and cherished by the generous patronage of Catholicism.
The traveller who visits Malta at the present day finds no object more interesting than the stately cathedral of Valetta, still rich in historical memorials and in monuments of art, of which even French rapacity could not despoil it.
He made a careful study of the principles of architecture; and the fruits of this study are to be seen in some of the noblest monuments erected in that flourishing period of the arts.
There can be no doubt that this was one of those monuments mentioned by Apollonius quoted in Phlegon (Fragm.
It is the constant recurrence of this symbol among the early monuments of America, as of the Old World, which proves most conclusively the existence at one time of a common religion, or 'cultus.
The State Commission on Gettysburg Monuments had no doubt of the full right of the 84th to participate with all other Pennsylvania regiments that took part in the Battle of Gettysburg, and promptly said so.
I must not close this slight sketch of its monuments without referring to the colossal statues so common in Egypt.
Altogether, nearly fifty of these remarkable monuments were taken away and set up in that city.
These were monuments made from single pieces of hard stone, and in some cases they reached a height of more than a hundred feet.
On entering the Hall, Tallyho appeared to be highly pleased with its extent, and was presently attracted by the monuments which it contains.
And charnel houses give those we bury back, Our monuments shall be the maws of kites.
Amongst the monuments lately raised in commemoration of de- parted worth, is that of Nelson, and in design and execution it is not exceeded by any in the Cathedral.
Colour-grinders and gilders, year after year, are bargained with to refresh the crumbling monuments and tarnished decorations of rude unregarded royalty, and to fasten the nails that cramp the crown upon the head.
Every detail of social existence is imperishably recorded upon themonuments of ancient Egypt, even to the tone and style and mishaps of a fashionable party.
Who does either of these things forgets how the books are written and how the monuments are erected, and how in general the things of the past come to be.
The monuments survive the men who built * Awhile, till overthrown by touch of Doom.
I would fain believe that no neglect, but rather the fashion of this folk, had left the monuments of generations to be thus resumed by nature.
At present the attractions and ornaments of the town consist of a good public library, Cardinal Fesch's large but indifferent collection of pictures, two monuments erected to Napoleon, and Napoleon's house.
Such supreme monuments of the national genius are not very common, and they are therefore the more precious.
The air he breathed was filled with a subtle spirit of discord; for upon Nuremberg, with her many churches and monuments of mediæval art, the Reformation had laid its chilling hand.
It is needless to add that though all these monuments are made of the richest marbles, and at great cost, the effect produced by them as Christian sepulchral monuments is unsatisfactory in the extreme.
But not trees alone do these vegetable garrotters embrace in their fatal grasp, ancient monuments are also destroyed by these formidable assailants.
Funereal monuments are characteristic of every race and have proved the most enduring records of the past.
In Tasmania among the lowest savages, now extinct, were foundmonuments over cremated human remains, accompanied with "characters crudely marked, similar to those which the aborigines tattooed on their forearms.
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