Which of the various functions of language are exemplified by each of the following passages?

What traveler among the ruins of Carthage, of Palmyra, Persepolis, or Rome, has not been stimulated to reflections on the transiency of kingdoms and men, and to sadness at the thought of a vigorous and rich life now departed . . .?
—G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1823