 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You remember Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct."...Chimborazo is the grandest mountain in the world." He also spoke of our authors, and inquired particularly after Washington Irving, whom he had once seen.... | |
 | 1857 - 602 pages
...he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct." He ros6 and took down the illustrated folio which accompanied...Chimborazo is the grandest mountain in the world." He also spoke of our authors, and inquired particularly after Washington Irving, whom he had once seen.... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 pages
...single cones of perpetual snow rising out of the splendid vegetation of the tropics? The Himalayas, although loftier, can scarcely make an equal impression;...the world.' " Among the objects in his study was a livmg chamelion, in a box with a glass lid. The animal, which was about six inches long, was lazily... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1860 - 530 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You remember Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct."...world." Among the objects in his study was a living chameleon, in a box with a glass lid. The animal, which was about six inches long, was lazily dozing... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1860 - 546 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You remember Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct."...edition of his " Minor Writings," turned over the leaves arid recalled, at each plate, some reminiscence of his American travel. " I still think,'' he remarked... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1861 - 536 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You remember Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct."...world." Among the objects in his study was a living chameleon, in a box with a glass lid. The animal, which was about six inches long, was lazily dozing... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1861 - 532 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You remember Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct."...world." Among the objects in his study was a living chameleon, in a box with a glass lid. The animal, which was about O six inches long, was lazily dozing... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1871 - 530 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You remember Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct."..." that Chimborazo is the grandest mountain in the world."Among the objects in his study was a living chameleon, ma box with a glass lid. The animal,... | |
 | Julius Löwenberg, Robert Avé-Lallemant, Alfred Wilhelm Dove - 1873 - 478 pages
...and sterile in comparison. You rememher Orizaba," continued he ; " here is an engraving from a rough sketch of mine. I hope you will find it correct,"...illustrated folio which accompanied the last edition of his "Miscellaneous Writings," turned over the leaves, and recalled, at each plate, some reminiscence of... | |
 | 1857 - 872 pages
...mine. I hope you will find it correct." lie rose and took down the illustrated folio which accom panied the last edition of his " Minor Writings," turned...remarked, as he closed the book, " that Chimborazo ie tho grandest mountain in the world." Among the objects in his study was a living chameleon, in a... | |
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I still think,'' he remarked as he closed the book, " that Chimborazo is the grandest mountain in the world. 