 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 էջ
...— as the outlines of mountains, the physiognomy of plants and animals, the azure sky, the form of clouds, and the transparency of the atmosphere —...decked constitutes the main feature of the picture. 772. Animal forms are inferior in mass, and their powers of motion often withdraw them from our sight.... | |
 | Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - 1873 - 624 էջ
...the whole, so he who examines every part of a fine view may also thoroughly comprehend the full aud combined effect. Hence a traveller should be a botanist...person to enjoy and improve the constantly changing scene's of travel will be readily seen to depend upon his previous preparation by contrasting the experience... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Nicholas Jardine - 1990 - 374 էջ
...depend upon a combination of all these external phenomena . . . the outline of mountains and hills, the physiognomy of plants and animals, the azure of...the clouds and the transparency of the atmosphere, still it cannot be denied that it is the vegetable covering of the earth's surface which chiefly conduces... | |
 | Deborah Poole - 1997 - 284 էջ
...portions of the earth's surface depends conjointly on all external phenomena—if the contours of the mountains, the physiognomy of plants and animals,...the clouds, and the transparency of the atmosphere, all combine in forming that general impression which is the result of the whole, yet it cannot be denied... | |
 | Paul Keddy - 2007 - 563 էջ
...the tropical region of South America, between the Orinoco, the Amazon, and the Rio da Madeira? And although the character of different portions of the...decked constitutes the main feature of the picture. von Humboldt, A. 1845. Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe. Volume 1. Translated... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - 2007 - 516 էջ
...different regions of the earth may depend upon a combination of . . . the outline of mountains and hills, the physiognomy of plants and animals, the azure of...the clouds, and the transparency of the atmosphere"; quoted in Malcolm Nicolson's "Historical Introduction" to the Penguin Classics abridgement of Humboldt's... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - 2007 - 510 էջ
...different regions of the earth may depend upon a combination of . . . the outline of mountains and hills, the physiognomy of plants and animals, the azure of...the clouds, and the transparency of the atmosphere"; quoted in Malcolm Nicolson's "Historical Introduction" to the Penguin Classics abridgement of Humboldt'... | |
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But if the characteristic aspect of different portions of the earth's surface depends conjointly on all external phenomena — if the contours of the mountains, the physiognomy of plants and animals, the azure of the sky, the forms of the clouds, and... 
