 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 440 pages
...sterility almost to the summit of the fells, how great must have been the contrast, when ranging either at a distance, or immediately beneath, his eye must...where the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf, have scarcely learnt the supremacy of man ; when directing his view to the intermediate spaces, to... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
...tracts of forest-ground, stagnating with bog, and darkened with native woods, where the wild ox and the roe, the stag and the wolf had scarcely learned the supremacy of man! Then, directing his view to the intermediate space and the windings of the valleys or the expanse of... | |
 | George Newenham Wright - 1841 - 212 pages
...almost to the summit of the fells ; how great must then have been the contrast, when ranging either at a distance or immediately beneath, his eye must have caught vast tracts of forest-ground, stagnating with bog, or darkened by native woods, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 pages
...we now behold subjected to a fruitful cultivation, there was nothing to be seen at that time but " tracts of forest ground, stagnating with bog or darkened by native woods, where the wild-ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf, had scarcely learned the supremacy of man." We owe tho first... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 pages
...twelfth century, a large proportion of England was stagnating with bog, or darkened by native forests, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf had hardly learned the supremacy of man. The culture of land was so imperfect, that^nine or ten bushels... | |
 | William Chambers - 1849 - 830 pages
...we now behold subjected to a fruitful cultivation, there was nothing to be seen at that time but ' tracts of forest ground, stagnating with bog or darkened...wolf, had scarcely learned the supremacy of man.' We owe the first efforts at improvement iu agriculture over the greater part of Europe to the monks.... | |
 | S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 pages
...twelfth century, a large proportion of England was stagnating with bog, or darkened by native forests, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf, had hardly learned the supremacy of man. The culture of land was so imperfect, that nine or ten bushels... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 534 pages
...almost to the summit of the fells, how great must then have been the contrast, when ranging either at a distance, or immediately beneath, his eye must...ground stagnating with bog or darkened by native woods, win-re the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf, had scarcely learned the supremacy of man, when,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 598 pages
...twelfth century, a large proportion of England was stagnating with bog, or darkened by native forests, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf, had hardly learned the supremacy of man. The culture of land was so imperfect, that nine or ten bushels... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1856 - 534 pages
...almost to the summit of the fells, how great must then have been the contrast, when, ranging either at a distance, or immediately beneath, his eye must have caught vast tracts of forest-ground stagnating with bog or darkened by native woods, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag,... | |
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... then have been the contrast, when, ranging either at a distance or immediately beneath, his eye must have caught vast tracts of forest ground stagnating with bog, or darkened by native woods, where the wild ox, the roe, the stag, and the wolf had... 
