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A Short History of Spain
Mary Platt Parmele
A Short History of Spain
Mary Platt Parmele
Book Excerpt: ...rom their neighbors the Cantabrians, and both these from the Catalonians in the northeast and the Gallicians on the northwest coast, and from the Lusitanians, where now is Portugal; and still more distinguished the Basques, in the rocky ravines of the Pyrenees, from each and all of the others. And yet these unlike members of one family were collectively known as Keltiberians. While this race--hardy, temperate, brave, and superstitious--was leading its primitive life upon the Iberian peninsula, while they were shooting arrows at the sky to threaten the thunder, drawing their swords against the rising tide, and prizing iron more dearly than their abundant gold and silver, because they could hammer it into hooks, and swords, and spears--there had long existed in the East a group of wonderful civilizations: the Egyptian, hoary with age and steeped in wisdom and in wickedness; the Chaldeans, who, with "looks commercing with the skies," were the fathers o...
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 8 października 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798677544293 |
Wydawcy | Independently Published |
Strony | 120 |
Wymiary | 152 × 229 × 7 mm · 185 g |
Język | English |
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