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Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor
American Journalist
Born: Jan 11, 1825
Died: Dec 19, 1878
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes. Bayard Taylor
Family Important Tribes Division Most Also Branches Germans Greeks Human The Most Important Romans Form Which Race Human Family
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins. Bayard Taylor
Old Country Mountains Every Pleasantly Ruins Valleys Entering Eye High Scenery Instead Disappointed Look Most Dull Expected Blue Romantic Lovely Which Land Full Sweetest Uninteresting Bohemia Gratify Thing
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor
Daring Tender Most Bravest Loving
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered. Bayard Taylor
Day Me World Old Long One Day Visiting Enthusiastic Haunted Scenes Had Almost Cherished Childhood Behold Wandered Which Fancy Should Old World Belief Among Early Desire Early Childhood
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force. Bayard Taylor
Mind Past Legend Every Back Ruin Everywhere Spirit Above Almost Feels Come Force Stirring Mountain Irresistible
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it. Bayard Taylor
War Time Crime Beauty Mountains Down Desolate Guard Waves Valley Those Torn Hurl Could He Deluge Towers Like Himself His Nor Hand Bloodshed Shore Oh Laid Spared Swept Mar
The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse. Bayard Taylor
Dark Become Other Jews Marked Possess Harsh Those Latter Characteristics Prominent Eye Physical Cheek Well Parts Families America Same Traits Difference Native Nose Jaw Coarse Europe Jerusalem Palestine Present Jewish
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites. Bayard Taylor
Emotions Walk Soil Never Over Come Glory Hallowed Afar Off Sites Which Palestine Tread Imagine
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me. Bayard Taylor
Me Impossible Christ Before Difficult Deity Had Conceive Footsteps Up Very Mount Walked Heat Human Form Ascent Human Form Found Utterly
I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected. Bayard Taylor
Me Emotions Assume Strike Several Must Cases Feel Since Indulge Forced Devotional Read Reverence Affected Accounts Being Cannot Which Many Describe Found Travellers Awe Jerusalem Here
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo. Bayard Taylor
Seen Approach Our Saxon Tribes Ancient Arab Athlete Supply Race Apollo Ethiopia Sculpture Ever Among Nearest Symmetry
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt. Bayard Taylor
Man World Living Alexander Visit Berlin Seeing Von Operas Greatest Came Sake Theaters Galleries Speaking Museums
The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado. Bayard Taylor
Mountains Considered Finest Divide Colorado Rocky Rocky Mountains View Near Creek
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. Bayard Taylor
Book Language See Ardent Could Never Written Most Read Without Foreign Foreign Language Desire
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. Bayard Taylor
Success People Poet See Could Never Had Been Traveler
I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language. Bayard Taylor
Language Tough Russian Study Most Attractive Which Hard
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries. Bayard Taylor
Broken History Complicated Nation Unity Other Other Countries Sides Attached Countries Histories Germany The History Of Little Race Therefore
There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people. Bayard Taylor
Confidence Honesty People Degree Strangers Tells General Towards Hotels Well Which Board Sweden Inland
The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world. Bayard Taylor
People World Kinder See More Simpler Am Convinced

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