Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, is covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. Indeed, so rank and luxuriant is the growth, that Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. Brazil Its Condition and Prospects - 94 psl.autoriai: Christopher Columbus Andrews - 1891 - 352 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| 1860 - 620 psl.
...in glowing colors the obstacles which the prodigality of Nature may oppose to the progress of man. "Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 psl.
...this distinction is rarely made. Tschudi's Travels in Peru, p. 290. in any other part of the world.180 Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| 1858 - 604 psl.
...accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity unequalled in any other part of the world. Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| 1858 - 754 psl.
...Buckle evinces descriptive powers of no ordinary kind. We make no apology for quoting at length: " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...that nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of ]>ower. A great part of this immense country is tilled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1859 - 856 psl.
...glowing colours the obstacles which the prodigality of Nature may oppose to the progress of man. " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 psl.
...in glowing colors the obstacles which the prodigality of Nature may oppose to the progress of man. " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 psl.
...this distinction is rarely made. Tschudis Travel* in Peru, p. 290. iii any other part of the world.100 Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| James William Buel - 1884 - 832 psl.
...accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity uuequaled in any other part of the world. Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
| Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - 1890 - 526 psl.
...of a lesson on "Glaciers." 16 5. (a) " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, i» covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion....Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power." State briefly the causes of the profusion referred to in the foregoing passage. (6) Contrast this country... | |
| James Vila Blake - 1891 - 308 psl.
...take from Buckle an eloquent paragraph descriptive of the resistance of nature to man in Brazil : " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...the growth, that nature seems to riot in the very wantoness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests,... | |
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