Category: History - Ancient
When St. Paulinus came to preach Christianity to the people of Northumbria, King Eadwine (so runs the legend) being minded to hear him, and wishing that his people should do so too, called together a council of his chief men and asked them whether they would attend to hear wha...
‘Stoop, boys: this gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens, and bows you To morning’s holy office: the gates of monarchs Are arched so high, that giants may jet through And...
5. CHAPTER IV.We have now traced the different stages through which language may pass in attaining to its most perfect form, the inflected stage. There were the two stages in which what we ma...
2. CHAPTER I.When St. Paulinus came to preach Christianity to the people of Northumbria, King Eadwine (so runs the legend) being minded to hear him, and wishing that his people should do so...
4. CHAPTER III.We have looked upon man fashioning the first implements and weapons and houses which were ever made; we now turn aside and ask what were the first of those immaterial instrument...
3. CHAPTER II.Between the earlier and the later stone age, between man of the drift period and man of the neolithic era, occurs a vast blank which we cannot fill in. We bid adieu to the primi...
9. CHAPTER VIII.We have hitherto been occupied in tracing the growth of inventions which had for their end the supply of material wants, or the ordering of conditions which should enable men to...
12. CHAPTER XI.If we found it difficult to reduce to a consistent simplicity the religious ideas of the Aryan races, what hope have we to find any thread through the labyrinth of their unbridl...
15. CHAPTER XIV.At this point, where we are bringing our inquiries to a conclusion, we would fain look a little nearer into the mists which shroud the past, and descry, were it possible, the ac...
18. CHAPTER XIV.P. 320. Following Mommsen, the Etruscans are here spoken of as though belonging to the Italic family. This is liable to grave doubts; but the question is at present too unsettle...
6. CHAPTER V.When we try and gather into one view the results of our inquiries upon the kindreds and nations of the old world, it must be confessed we are struck rather by the extent of our...
7. CHAPTER VI.We have seen, so far, that the early traces of man’s existence point to a gradual improvement in the state of his civilization, to the acquirement of fresh knowledge, and the pr...
17. Chapter V., founded an empire which overthrew the ancient Chaldæan orBabylonian empire,--for from its largest town the empire is also called the Babylonian--and was in its turn overthrown by an alliance between the revolted Babylon and the King o...
13. CHAPTER XII.Though it is true, as we have said before, that every manufactured article involves a long chapter of unwritten history to account for its present form, and the perfection of th...
11. CHAPTER X.If the sun-god was so natural a type of a man-like divinity, a god suffering some of the pains of humanity, a sort of type of man’s own ideal life here, it was natural that men...
14. CHAPTER XIII.The step from picturing or picture-drawing to writing by pictures is, as we have said, an immense one. But now we have to record one more step, almost as great, which is the tra...
8. CHAPTER VII.So long as people continued to lead a wandering shepherd life, the institution of the patriarchal family afforded a sufficient and satisfactory basis for such cordial union as w...
16. CHAPTER V.Brugsch, _Recueils de Monuments Égyptiens_. Brugsch, _Histoire d’Égypt_. Brugsch, _Matériaux pour servir_, etc. Bunsen, _Egypt’s Place_, etc. (ed. Dr. Birch). Ebers, _Egyptian H...
1. CHAPTER XIV.