Persia on a cross of silver, 1880–1890
| Autor: | J. B. Simmons, P. W. Avery |
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| Rok vydání: | 1974 |
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| Zdroj: | Middle Eastern Studies. 10:259-286 |
| ISSN: | 1743-7881 0026-3206 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00263207408700276 |
| Popis: | . . the nation-of London. Often . . . at distances of two and three hundred miles or more from this colossal emporium of men, wealth, arts, and intellectual power, have I felt the sublime expression of her enormous magnitude in one simple form of ordinary occurrence-viz., in the vast droves of cattle . . . all with their heads directed to London, and expounding the size of the attracting body, together with its force of attractive power, by the neverending succession of these droves, and the remoteness from the capital of the lines upon which they were moving. A suction so powerful, felt along radii so vast, and a consciousness, at the same time, that upon other radii still more vast, both by land and by sea, the same suction is operating, night and day, summer and winter, and hurrying for ever into one centre the infinite means neededfor her infinite purposes, and the endless tribute to the skill or to the luxury of her endless population, crowds the imagination with a pomp to which there is nothing corresponding on this planet, either amongst the things that have been, or the things that are. De Quincy on London |
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