 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1815 - 744 pages
...which do not taper to a point, but rise at once from their bases, with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains; the magnificence...be brought together by this common object; and the awfiil and undisturbed solitude, which reigns amidst their eternal snows; fill the mind with admiration... | |
 | 1816 - 592 pages
...which do not taper to a point, but rise at once from their bases, with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains ; the magnificence...variety of their lofty summits; the various nations by w.iom they are seen, and who seem to be brought together by this common object-, and the awful and... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1819 - 562 pages
...which do not taper to a point, but rise at once from their bases, with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains ; the magnificence and variety of their lofty sum* I have seen the ridge of Imaus (or Hemalleh), at a distance of 150 miles; and, I believe, they... | |
 | George Browning - 1834 - 664 pages
...softness and transparency which their distance gave them, produced a singular and very pleasing effect. The stupendous height of these mountains, the magnificence and variety of their lofty summits, and the awful undisturbed solitude which reigns amidst their eternal snows, fill the mind with admiration... | |
 | James Bell - 1836 - 690 pages
...of this range, the magnificence and variety of its lofty summits, the various nations by whom it is seen, and who seem to be brought together by this...object, and the awful and undisturbed solitude which reisrns amidst its eternal snows, fill the mind of the spectator with ineffable admiration and astonishment... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1839 - 466 pages
...which do not taper to a point, but rise at once from their bases with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains ; the magnificence...and the awful and undisturbed solitude which reigns amidst their eternal snows ; fill the mind with admiration and astonishment, that no language can express.... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone - 1842 - 472 pages
...which do not taper to a point, but rise at once from their bases with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains ; the magnificence...and the awful and undisturbed solitude which reigns amidst their eternal snows, fill the mind with admiration and astonishment, that no language can express.... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 382 pages
...which do not taper to a point, but rise at once from their bases with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains, the magnificence...and the awful and undisturbed solitude which reigns amidst their eternal snows, fill the mind with admiration and astonishment, that no language can express.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell - 1850 - 292 pages
...the surface of the globe. The stupendous altitude of this range ; the various natives by whom it is seen, and who seem to be brought together by this...and the awful and undisturbed solitude which reigns amidst its eternal snows, — fill the mind of the spectator with ineffable admiration and astonishment... | |
 | John Thomson - 1851 - 1092 pages
...mountains," savs Elphinstone, " the magnificence and variety of their lofty summits, the various nations hy whom they are seen, and who seem to be brought together...undisturbed solitude which reigns amid their eternal snows, Hit the mind with an admiration and astonishment which no language can express." Of this complicated... | |
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... with amazing boldness and grandeur. The stupendous height of these mountains ; the magnificence and variety of their lofty summits; the various nations by whom they are seen, and who seem to be brought together by this common object ; and the awful... 
