 | Jedidiah Morse - United States - 1792 - 522 pages
...the moft , powerful . powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion. But the dißant Imifhing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrait to the fore ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1795 - 558 pages
...beds by the moft powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreffion : but the cliftant finiftiing which) nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contraft to the fore ground ; it is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...the moil powerful powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impreflron. But the diítant finiíhing which nature has given to. the picture, is of a very different character. It is a, true contrail to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature,...cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting... | |
 | Rodolphus Dickinson - Elocution - 1815 - 214 pages
...on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature,...which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different-character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 944 pages
...hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the " evident marks of their disrupture and " avulsion from their beds by the most " powerful agents of nature,...is as placid " and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mendous. For the mountain being cloven " asunder, she presents to your eye, through " the cleft,... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1818 - 344 pages
...particularly on the Sheoandoah, the evideut marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds- by fhe most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression....true contrast to the foreground-. It is as placid and delighfful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to... | |
 | Francis Hall - Canada - 1819 - 592 pages
...hand, " but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evi" dent marks of their disrupture and avulsion " from their beds by the most powerful agents " of nature,...It " is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as <c placid and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mentions. For the mountain being cloven " asunder,... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature,...cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting... | |
 | Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - Pensacola (Fla.) - 1828 - 478 pages
...on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds, by the most powerful agents of nature,...cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting... | |
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But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents... 
