 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 2. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards; that, in this place particularly, they have been... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that, in this place particularly, they have been... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Readers - 1833 - 288 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time; that the mountains were formed first; that the rivers began to flow afterwards; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Readers - 1833 - 224 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. 4. The first glance at this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time; that the mountains were formed first; that the rivers began to flow afterwards; that, in this place particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Indians of North America - 1840 - 246 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly, they have been... | |
 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off" to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that in this place particularly, they have been... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion, that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they have been dammed... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1854 - 668 pages
...to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries oursenses DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. into the opinion that this earth has been created in time ; that the mountains were formed first ; that the rivers began to flow afterward ; that in this place particularly they have been dammed... | |
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... that in this place particularly they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley ; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over at this spot, and have torn the mountain down... 
