| Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy - 1979 - 438 דפים
...through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess,...last boundaries to man's knowledge with deep, but ill defined sensations. Lastly, of natural scenery, the views from lofty mountains, though certainly... | |
| William Dean Howells - 1984 - 508 דפים
...through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess,...beautiful, are very memorable. When looking down from the crest of the highest Cordillera, the mind undisturbed by minute details, was filled wth the stupendous... | |
| Charles Darwin - 2001 - 504 דפים
...through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess,...last boundaries to man's knowledge with deep, but ill defined sensations.— Lastly of natural scenery, the views from lofty mountains, though certainly... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1989 - 452 דפים
...ancients supposed, the flat earth Oct. 1836 CONCLUSION 375 was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess,...beautiful, are very memorable. When looking down from the crest of the highest Cordillera, the mind undisturbed by minute details, was filled wth the stupendous... | |
| Kate Flint - 2000 - 450 דפים
...through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts heated to an intolerable excess,...boundaries to man's knowledge with deep but illdefined sensations.16 I shall be returning to the relationship between the horizon and the search for knowledge... | |
| Friedrich Wolfzettel - 2003 - 496 דפים
...Ausdruck kommt. (Bd. II. S. 64f.) In ähnlicher Weise stellt z. B. auch Darwin rückblickend fest, daß "the views from lofty mountains, though certainly...with the stupendous dimensions of the surrounding masses."-*6 Und folgerichtig muß der britische Naturforscher daher ebenso wie Poeppig die malerische... | |
| |