 | 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
...remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration even those, who, uninstructed...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,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1822 - 762 pages
...remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration even those, who, uninstructed...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,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration, even those, who, uninstructed...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1829 - 202 pages
...remarkable for their extreme blackness give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration even those, who, uninstructed...being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on tne mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1829 - 738 pages
...remarkable for their extreme blackness, gives a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration even those who, uninstructed...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
...remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the southern sky. This sight fills with admiration, even those who, uninstructed...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1848 - 162 pages
...equatorial regions ; yet are not these altogether silent or inharmonious. 2. This sight of the heavens fills with admiration even those who, uninstructed...heavenly vault, as in the view of a beautiful landscape. 3. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from his glance, but... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...its aspect, and scattered nebulae rivalling in splendour the milky way. " A traveller," he states, "has no need 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 acquaintance... | |
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... of space remarkable for their extreme blackness, give a particular physiognomy to the Southern sky. This sight fills with admiration even those who, uninstructed in the branches of accurate science, feel the same emotion of delight in the contemplation... 
