 | 1846 - Страниц: 536
...for they are scarcely passable, and hence unknown ; thoy brar the stamp of having lasted as they arc now for ages, and there appears no limit to their...heated to an intolerable excess, who would not look at theso 1:Ы boundaries to man's knowledge with deep, but ill-defined sensations?" • ••••••»•... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - 1876 - Страниц: 676
...boundless, for they are scarcely practicable, and hence unknown. They bear the stamp of baring lasted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded hy an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess, who would not look... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - Страниц: 254
...are scarcely passable, and hence unknown ; they bear the stamp of having lasted, as they are no\v, for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an unbearable excess, who would not look at these lost boundaries to man's knowledge with deep but vague... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - Страниц: 452
...greener and more fertile Pampas, which are more serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression II can scarcely analyze these feelings, but it must be...impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an unbearable excess, who would not look at these lost boundaries to man's knowledge with deep but vague... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1889 - Страниц: 628
...to the free scope given to the imagination. The plains of Patagonia are boundless, RETROSPECT. 601 for they are scarcely passable, and hence unknown...time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth were surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess, who... | |
 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1892 - Страниц: 672
...boundless, for they are scarcely practicable, and hence unknown ; they bear the stamp of having thus lasted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...man's knowledge with deep but ill-defined sensations ? " Hamerton, whose wide experience and artistic power make his opinion especially important, says:... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - Страниц: 490
...boundless, for they are scarcely practicable, and hence unknown ; they bear the stamp of having thus lasted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...man's knowledge with deep but ill-defined sensations ? " Hamerton, whose wide experience and artistic power make his opinion especially important, says... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1893 - Страниц: 282
...boundless* for they are scarcely practicable, and hence unknown ; they bear the stamp of having thus lasted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...man's knowledge with deep but ill-defined sensations?" That he did not in this passage hit on the right explanation of the sensations he experienced in Patagonia,... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - 1895 - Страниц: 620
...greener, and more fertile pampas, which are serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression ? lusted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to un intolerable excess, who would not look at these last boundaries to man's knowledge with deep but... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - 1895 - Страниц: 620
...greener, and more fertile pampas, which are serviceable to mankind, produced an equal impression ? lasted for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration...flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of wuter, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess, who would not look at these last boundaries to... | |
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They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold... 
