Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature and with one of the great scenes of human existence. Works - Seite 230von Samuel Johnson - 1811Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 Seiten
...with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;...noon, we entered a narrow valley not very flowery, but suffiently verdant. Our guides told us, that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 Seiten
...with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;...noon, we entered a narrow valley not very flowery, but suffiently verdant. Our guides told us, that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 Seiten
...with one sullen power of useless vegetatidri. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth...existence. " As the day advanced towards noon, we en- , tered a narrow valley not very flowery, but suffiently verdant. Our guides told us, that the... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 Seiten
...one sullen power of useless vegetation^ Regions mountainous and wild, however, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth ; and he, that has never seen them, must lire unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence.... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 Seiten
...reasoning, and found a wider basis of analogy. Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth,...a narrow valley not very flowery, but sufficiently verdaot. Our guides told us, that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat, and entreated... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 Seiten
...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. Regions, mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth...with one of the great scenes of human existence." Among the eloquent passages Which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of... | |
| 1816 - 658 Seiten
...and found a wider basis of analogy. * Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and littia * cultivated, make a great part of the earth ; and he...has ' never seen them, must live unacquainted with the face of -* nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence*.' The general features... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 Seiten
...analogy. ' Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little ' cultivated, make a great part oi' the earth ; and he that has ' never seen them, must live unacquainted with the face of ' nature, and with one of the great 'scenes of human existence*.' The general features... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 Seiten
...reasoning, and found a wider basis of analogy. Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth...• narrow valley not very flowery, but sufficiently ver<i;mt. Our guides told us, that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat, and entreated... | |
| J. H. Robinson (surgeon.) - 1822 - 442 Seiten
...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth,...live unacquainted with much of the face of nature." We were now arrived at Las Piedras ; and I passed on to the town, to enquire for the Commandant, whom... | |
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