The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von HumboldtRudd & Carleton, 1809 - 482 էջ |
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... thousand fold . There are times , indeed , when even a bad man is more potent than many good books . Blu menbach , Heyne , Eichhorn , and the rest , excellent and indispensable as they were , were books , so to speak , dead books to the ...
... thousand fold . There are times , indeed , when even a bad man is more potent than many good books . Blu menbach , Heyne , Eichhorn , and the rest , excellent and indispensable as they were , were books , so to speak , dead books to the ...
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... thousand leagues in length , on , on , into the heart of the New World , the primeval solitudes of Nature ! The best hours of a man's life are those that he wastes in dreams , and happy is he who can make them true , as Humboldt did ...
... thousand leagues in length , on , on , into the heart of the New World , the primeval solitudes of Nature ! The best hours of a man's life are those that he wastes in dreams , and happy is he who can make them true , as Humboldt did ...
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... thousand specimens . He wrote largely in the scientific reviews of that day , the reading of which probably drew the atten- tion of Humboldt towards him . He contributed more to extend the practical knowledge of mineralogy than any one ...
... thousand specimens . He wrote largely in the scientific reviews of that day , the reading of which probably drew the atten- tion of Humboldt towards him . He contributed more to extend the practical knowledge of mineralogy than any one ...
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... thousand feet high ; the clouds were so uniformly spread , and kept so perfect a level , that they wore the appearance of a vast plain covered with snow . The colossal pyramid of the peak , the volcanic summits of Lancerota , of ...
... thousand feet high ; the clouds were so uniformly spread , and kept so perfect a level , that they wore the appearance of a vast plain covered with snow . The colossal pyramid of the peak , the volcanic summits of Lancerota , of ...
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... thousand five hundred feet of height . Tufts of retama , loaded with flowers , adorned the valleys hollowed out by the torrents , and en- cumbered with the effects of the lateral eruptions . Below the retama , lay the region of ferns ...
... thousand five hundred feet of height . Tufts of retama , loaded with flowers , adorned the valleys hollowed out by the torrents , and en- cumbered with the effects of the lateral eruptions . Below the retama , lay the region of ferns ...
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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...