 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 302 pages
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...readily occur, that this uniformity of barrenness can aflbrd very little amusement to the traveller; that it is easy to sit at home and conceive rocks, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 360 pages
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disin. herited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with one sullen... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...pastures and waving harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...pastures and waving harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...pastures and waving harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...or quickened only with one sullen power of useless vegetatidri. " Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 378 pages
...hopeless sterility. The appearance is that 6f matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed py\nature from her care, and disinherited of -her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quick. cnea quly with, one sullen power of useless vegetation^ Regions mountainous and wild, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left, in its original elemental state, or quickened... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form...It will very readily occur, that this uniformity of bar? renness can afford very little amusement to the traveller ; that it is easy to sit at home and... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 pages
...flowery pastures and waving harvests, is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form,...only with one sullen power of useless vegetation. Regions, mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 432 pages
...pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature L from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened... | |
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An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her... 
