 Regions like this, which have come down to us rude and untouched from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand conceptions, far beyond the efforts of art and cultivation. Impressed by such views of nature, our ancestors worshipped the God of nature...  Devonshire sketches, by Tickler - Sida 66efter George Philip R. Pulman - 1869Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Valentine Long - 1876 - 294 sidor
...mariner within soundings, land at a distance, houses, trees, and villages ; but all around is waste. Regions, like this, which have come down to us rude and untouched, 1 Stukeley was not insensible to the charms of " this delightful plain, 'Jurat arva Tldere Non nutria,... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1875 - 922 sidor
...verdant turf, extremely easy to walk on, and which rises, as with a spring, undei one's feet." (p. 9.) from the beginning of time, fill the mind with grand...nature, our ancestors worshipped the god of nature, in these boundless scenes, which gave them the highest conceptions of eternity. . All the plain, at least... | |
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