 | Great Britain - 1829 - 696 pages
...The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, and corroborate the impression which such monuments of war between the rivers and mountains (that must... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...the moft , powerful . powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion. But the dißant Imifhing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrait to the fore ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...beds by the moft powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion : but the cliftant finiftiing which) nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contraft to the fore ground ; it is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...the moil powerful powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreflron. But the diítant finiíhing which nature has given to. the picture, is of a very different character. It is a, true contrail to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their...It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain 'being cloven asunder, she... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their...which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different-character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...£ummit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their...It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid and delightful as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their...It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...summit to its base. The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their...by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different... | |
 | Granville Penn - Earth sciences - 1828 - 510 pages
...The piles of rock on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, exhibit the evident marks of this disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, and corroborate the impression which such monuments of war between the rivers and mountains (that must... | |
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But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. 
