| Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...sky. This sight fills with admiration even those who, uninstructed in the several branches of physical science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation...beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller needs not to be a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone by the mere aspect of its vegetation. Without... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1818 - 666 pages
...delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the 19 view of a beautiful landscape, of a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognize the torrid zone on the mere aspect of it's vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the 19 view of a beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognize the torrid zone on the mere aspect of it's vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions... | |
| Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...contemplation of the heavenly vault, as in the view of a beautiful landscape. VIEW AT CARACCJS. 203 or a majestic site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions... | |
| William Adams (M.A.) - Voyages and travels - 1832 - 516 pages
...particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration, even those who, uniristructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same...site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 720 pages
...rivalling in splendour the milky way, and tracks of space remarkable for their extreme blackness, gives a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This...beautiful landscape or a majestic site. A traveller," he adds, " has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone on the meer aspect of its vegetation;... | |
| William Adams - America - 1836 - 508 pages
...stars of the first magnitude, some scattered nebulae, rivalling in splendour the milky way, and tracts of space remarkable for their extreme blackness, give...site. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone, on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions... | |
| Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...admiration even those, who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same emotions of delight in the contemplation of the heavenly vault,...in the view of a beautiful landscape, or a majestic river. A traveller has no need of being a botanist to recognize the torrid zone on the mere aspect... | |
| Henry Inglis - English poetry - 1851 - 162 pages
...particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration even those who, uuinstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same...of being a botanist to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1852 - 544 pages
...sky. This sight fills with admiration even those who, uninstructed in the several branches of physical science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation...beautiful landscape, or a majestic site. A traveller needs not to be a botanist, to recognize the torrid zone by the mere aspect of its vegetation. Without... | |
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