Nothing can be more melancholy, says this traveller, than to walk over villages swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields,... Essay on the Theory of the Earth - עמוד 379מאת Georges baron Cuvier - 1827 - 550 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Jean André Luc - 1811 - 576 דפים
...this traveller, " than to walk over villages " swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to tram* " pie under foot their roofs, to strike against the " summits...would appear on any part of the western bank of " the " the Nile, which is exposed to this scourge of the " sands of the desert. The existence, therefore,... | |
| Jean André Luc - 1811 - 580 דפים
...this traveller, " than to walk over villages " swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to tram " pie under foot their roofs, to strike against the " summits..." would appear on any part of the western bank of 282 " the yilc, wlich is exposed to this scourge of the " sands of the desert. The existence, therefore,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 דפים
...traveller* than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample underfoot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their...the dwellings of men, and that all has vanished." — De Luc, Alercure de France, Sept. 1807. — Jameson. • > La Croix, Hist. Genghis Khan, p. 256.... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 352 דפים
...traveller) than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample underfoot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all has »anisbed."—De Luc, Mercurt rie France, Sept. 1807.—Jameson. earth," 1 once the emporium of the... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1835 - 318 דפים
...the desert ; to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, and to reflect, that yonder were cultivated fields, — that there grew trees, — that here were the dwellings of men, — and that all has vanished ! In like manner, the increase of Coral reefs has... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 396 דפים
...side, would long since have ceased to be habitable. " Nothing can be more melancholy," says Denon, " than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." De Luc draws an argument from these sand floods in favor of the newness of the earth,... | |
| Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1839 - 518 דפים
...villages swallowed up by the sand of the Desert, to trample under foot their roofs and minarets, and to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were the dwellings of men, and that all have now vanished. The sands of the Desert were in ancient times... | |
| William MacGillivray - 1840 - 266 דפים
...side, would long since have ceased to be habitable. " Nothing can be more melancholy," says Denon, " than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." Drift sands on the sea-coast may be fixed by planting them with Arundo arenaria, as... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 דפים
...side, would long since have ceased to be habitable. " Nothing can be more melancholy," says Denon, " than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." De Luc draws an argument from these sand floods in favor of the newness of the earth,... | |
| John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 388 דפים
..." than to walk over villages, swallowed up by the sand of the desert, to trample under foot tlieir roofs, to. strike against the summits of their minarets,...here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." Do Luc draws an argument from these sand floods in favor of the newness of the earth,... | |
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