 An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland in 1773 - Side 52af Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 239 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature...readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness can aflbrd very little amusement to the traveller; that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disin. herited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness ; dismissed by nature...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness ; dismissed by nature...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness ; dismissed by nature...or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetatidri. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 sider
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that 6f matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed py\nature from her care, and disinherited of -her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quick. cnea quly with, one sullen power of useless vegetation^ Regions mountainous and wild, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature...It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of bar? renness can afford very little amusement to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at home and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 sider
...harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form, or usefulness, dismissed by Nature...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. Regions, mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth... | |
 | J. H. Robinson (surgeon.) - 1822 - 442 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 sider
...astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature...elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen pfcwer of useless vegetation. It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness can afford... | |
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