The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von HumboldtRudd & Carleton, 1809 - 482 էջ |
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... seemed to have no idea of writing , beyond its being a means of conveying facts . His facts are reliable , but bunglingly arranged , without order or method . He says the same thing over and over again , and entirely lacks the chief ...
... seemed to have no idea of writing , beyond its being a means of conveying facts . His facts are reliable , but bunglingly arranged , without order or method . He says the same thing over and over again , and entirely lacks the chief ...
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... seemed a trivial thing then , a mere lucky chance , now seems the special ordering of Nature . He was fitted , we have since learned , to per- form a great work for her ; but before he could perform that work it was necessary that she ...
... seemed a trivial thing then , a mere lucky chance , now seems the special ordering of Nature . He was fitted , we have since learned , to per- form a great work for her ; but before he could perform that work it was necessary that she ...
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... for discoveries in the Pacific , which seemed to be adjourned for several years , should take place at an earlier period , he would endeavor to return from Algiers and join it , at some port in 32 OFF AT LAST ! France or Spain ; he.
... for discoveries in the Pacific , which seemed to be adjourned for several years , should take place at an earlier period , he would endeavor to return from Algiers and join it , at some port in 32 OFF AT LAST ! France or Spain ; he.
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... seemed to augment the mass of light diffused through the air . After mid- night , great black clouds rising behind the volcano shrouded at intervals the moon , and the beautiful con- stellation of the Scorpion . They beheld lights ...
... seemed to augment the mass of light diffused through the air . After mid- night , great black clouds rising behind the volcano shrouded at intervals the moon , and the beautiful con- stellation of the Scorpion . They beheld lights ...
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... seemed at the same time to have brought the objects nearer their view . They passed through the channel which divided the isle of Alegranza from Montaña Clara , taking scund- ings the whole way , and examined the archipelago of small ...
... seemed at the same time to have brought the objects nearer their view . They passed through the channel which divided the isle of Alegranza from Montaña Clara , taking scund- ings the whole way , and examined the archipelago of small ...
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Էջ 54 - In the solitude of the seas, we hail a star as a friend from whom we have been long separated. Among the Portuguese and the Spaniards, peculiar motives seem to increase this feeling; a religious sentiment attaches them to a constellation, the form of which recalls the sign of the faith planted by their ancestors in the deserts of the new world...
Էջ 12 - Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in I think of those companions true Who studied with me at the U niversity of Gottingen, niversity of Gottingen.
Էջ 295 - He found them married to the women of this land, having a numerous posterity, and living in cities, which they had built. Our ancestors hearkened not to their ancient master, and he returned alone. We have always believed, that his descendants would one day come to take possession of this country. Since you arrive from that region, where the Sun rises, and, as you assure me, you have long known us, I cannot doubt, but that the king, who sends you, is our natural master.
Էջ 80 - Thus in every region of the earth a resemblance may be traced in the early fictions of nations, those especially which relate to two principles governing the world, the abode of souls after death, the happiness of the virtuous and the punishment of the guilty. The most different and most...
Էջ 54 - A traveller has no need of being a botanist, to recognise the torrid zone on the mere aspect of its vegetation ; and without having acquired any notions of astronomy, without any acquaintance with the celestial charts of Flamstead and de la Caille, he feels he is not in Europe, when he sees the immense constellation of the Ship, or the phosphorescent clouds of Magellan, arise on the horizon.
Էջ 162 - ... farther and farther from her hut and her native country. She succeeded in breaking her bonds, threw herself into the water, and swam to the left bank of the Atabapo. The current carried her to a shelf of rock, which bears her name to this day. She landed, and took shelter in the woods, but the president of the missions ordered the Indians to row to the shore, and follow the traces of the Guahiba. In the evening she was brought back. Stretched upon the rock...
Էջ 55 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Էջ 416 - I had to go, for I had nothing left. The next morning as I was seated at breakfast, in front of the yard of the hotel where I lived, I saw the servant of Humboldt approach. He handed me a note, saying there was no answer, and disappeared. I opened the note, and I see it now before me as distinctly as if I held the paper in my hand. It said : " ' My friend, I hear that you intend leaving Paris in consequence of some embarrassments.
Էջ 460 - I still think,'' he remarked as he closed the book, " that Chimborazo is the grandest mountain in the world.
Էջ 290 - Those who witnessed this great catastrophe from the top of Aguasarco assert, that flames were seen to issue forth for an extent of more than half a square league, that fragments of burning rocks were thrown to...