| 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
...particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression....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 to... | |
| Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression....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
...particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression....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 to your... | |
| Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression....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 to... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...their disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature...character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. That is as placid and delightful, as this is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder,... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...their disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate this impression. But the distant finishing, which nature...character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. That is as placid and delightful, as this is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven asunder,... | |
| Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disruptnre and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of Nature, corroborate the impression....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 to... | |
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