'Twould seem that not a god in all the skies From our affairs must ever turn his eyes, And that the smallest of our race Could hardly eat, or wash his face, Without, like Greece and Troy for ten years' space, Embroiling all Olympus in the case. — from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine
fragments of a magnificent edifice that had
A good many people looked upon her as a harmless lunatic, but in these extravagances of hers a keener observer surely would have seen the broken fragments of a magnificent edifice that had crumbled into ruin before it was completed, the stones of a heavenly Jerusalem—love, in short, without a lover. — from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
figure of a macaw eating the heart
40 Symbolical slab with title of the high pontiff, 45 Symbols from the turret dedicated to the high pontiff Cay in the palace of King Can, at Uxmal, 65 Tableau of the creation, from the east façade of the palace at Chichen-Itza, 72 Prince Coh in battle (from mural paintings at Chichen-Itza), 78 Prince Coh's body laid out for cremation (from mural paintings at Chichen-Itza), 80 Slab from Prince Coh's Mausoleum, at Chichen, leopard eating the heart of his enemies, 85 Dying leopard with human head, from Prince Coh's Mausoleum at Chichen-Itza, 86 Priest of Osiris making an offering (from the tombs of Thebes), 86 {xv} Statue of Prince Coh, found in his Mausoleum at Chichen-Itza, now in the National Museum in the City of Mexico, 87 Slab from Prince Coh's Mausoleum at Chichen, representing Queen Moo, under the figure of a macaw, eating the heart of her enemies, 88 Tableau of the Mastodon worship, at Chichen, 93 Small terra cotta heads from British Honduras, 104 Sculptures on monolith gate at Tiahuanuco (Peru), from a model in the museum of the Long Island Historical Society in Brooklyn, 104 Bas-reliefs from small room at the foot of Prince Coh's monument at Chichen-Itza, 115 , 118 Symbols of lower Egypt (from Sir Gardner Wilkinson's works on Egypt), 115 Plate XVII, part II. of Troano M.S., 116 Plate XXV. — from Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11,500 Years Ago
Their relation to the sacred mysteries of Egypt, Greece, Chaldea and India. Free Masonry in times anterior to the Temple of Solomon. by Augustus Le Plongeon
far older and more experienced than he
At this moment she, with the knowledge of the definite step that she had taken in life by engaging herself to Philip Beaumont, felt far older and more experienced than he. — from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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