 And that nothing may be wanting to this land of marvels, the forests are skirted by enormous meadows, which, reeking with heat and moisture, supply nourishment to countless herds of wild cattle, that browse and fatten on their herbage; while the adjoining...  The Wisconsin Farmer - Page 2141864Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...plains, rich in another form of life, are the chosen abode of the subtlest and most ferocious « Op. cit animals, which prey on each other, but which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate But amid this pomp and splendor of Nature, no place is left for man. He is reduced to msignificance... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...that browse and fatten on their herbage; while the adjoining plains, rich in another form of life, are the chosen abode of the subtlest and most ferocious...which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate.151 1M Dr. Gardner, who looked at these things with the eye of a botanist, says that near... | |
 | 1858 - 754 pages
...their herbage; while the adjoining plains, rich in another SO. X.—NEW SERIES. 0 form of life, are the chosen abode of the subtlest and most ferocious...above all the other countries of the earth. " But amid this pomp and splendour of nature, no place is left for man ; he is reduced to insignificance... | |
 | 1858 - 604 pages
...on their herbage ; while the adjoining plains, rich in another form of life, are the chosen abodes of the subtlest and most ferocious animals, which...which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate."—Pp. 93, 94. Now, with such a soil and so advantageous a climate,—with all the ingredients... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 752 pages
...animals, which prey on each other, but which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate.151 Such is the flow and abundance of life by which Brazil is marked above all the other countries of the earth.1" But, amid this pomp and splendour of Nature, no place is left for Man. He is reduced to insignificance... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...plains, rich in another form of life, are the chosen abode of the subtlest and most ferocious Op. cit. animals, which prey on each other, but which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate But amid this pomp and splendor of Nature, no place is left for man. He is reduced to insignificance... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1857 - 886 pages
...browse and fatten on their herbage ; while the adjoining plains, rich in another form of life, are the chosen abode of the subtlest and most ferocious...which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate.151 1M Dr. Gardner, who looked at these things with the eye of a botanist, says that near... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1865 - 724 pages
...heat, aa if we were dissolving into vapour." the adjoining plains, rich in another form of life, are the chosen abode of the subtlest and most ferocious...almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate. 1S l Such is the flow and abundance of life by which Brazil is marked above all the other countries... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1870 - 724 pages
...another form of life, are the chosen al>ode of the subtlest and most ferocious animals, which prey op each other, but which it might almost seem no human power can hope to extirpate.151 Such is the flow and abundance of life by which Brazil is marked above all the other... | |
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