The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its Relation to the History of MankindGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 334 sider |
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... separates inorganic from organized nature . I will even go further than is ordinarily done , and I will say that there is an impassable chasm be- tween the mineral and the plant , between the plant and the animal , an impassable chasm ...
... separates inorganic from organized nature . I will even go further than is ordinarily done , and I will say that there is an impassable chasm be- tween the mineral and the plant , between the plant and the animal , an impassable chasm ...
Side 40
... separate and narrow down to points in the south . Now this tendency is marked , not only in the principal masses of the continents , but also in all the important peninsulas which detach themselves from it . Greenland , Cali- fornia ...
... separate and narrow down to points in the south . Now this tendency is marked , not only in the principal masses of the continents , but also in all the important peninsulas which detach themselves from it . Greenland , Cali- fornia ...
Side 44
... separates the equator from the pole . In Europe it is not equal to the sixth part of the earth's circumference . In America , on the contrary , the greatest length extends from the north to the south . It embraces more than one third of ...
... separates the equator from the pole . In Europe it is not equal to the sixth part of the earth's circumference . In America , on the contrary , the greatest length extends from the north to the south . It embraces more than one third of ...
Side 71
... separately . One appeared in one country at a given epoch , another in another . The continents are only formed , so to speak , by piecemeal , in the train of the geological epochs ; and , nevertheless , the definitive result makes a ...
... separately . One appeared in one country at a given epoch , another in another . The continents are only formed , so to speak , by piecemeal , in the train of the geological epochs ; and , nevertheless , the definitive result makes a ...
Side 77
... separate from the Atlantic , the Northern Frozen Ocean , the position of which gives it a particular physiognomy . As to the great Southern Sea , we may consider it less as an ocean by itself than as a common reservoir , whence issue ...
... separate from the Atlantic , the Northern Frozen Ocean , the position of which gives it a particular physiognomy . As to the great Southern Sea , we may consider it less as an ocean by itself than as a common reservoir , whence issue ...
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The Earth and Man: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography in Its ... Arnold Guyot Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1855 |
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Side 224 - As the plant is made for the animal, as the vegetable world is made for the animal world, America is made for the man of the Old World The man of the Old World sets out upon his way Leaving the highlands of Asia, he descends from station to station towards Europe. Each of his steps is marked by a new civilization superior to the preceding, by a greater power of development. Arrived at the Atlantic, he pauses on the shore of...
Side 330 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY : touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the Races of Animals, living and extinct. With numerous Illustrations. For the Use of Schools and Colleges.
Side 332 - OF ANECDOTES OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. Containing a copious and choice Selection of Anecdotes of the various forms of Literature, of the Arts, of Architecture, Engravings, Music, Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, and of the most celebrated Literary Characters and Artists of different Countries and Ages, &c. By KAZLITT ARVINE, AM, author of " Cyclopaedia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes.
Side 260 - Since man is made to acquire the full possession and mastery of his facult.es by toil, and by the exercise of all his energies, no climate could so well minister to his progress in this work as the climate of the temperate continents. It is easy to understand this. An excessive heat enfeebles man ; it invites to repose and inaction. In the tropical regions the power of life in nature is carried to its...
Side 328 - GUYOT'S MURAL MAPS ; a Series of elegant Colored Maps, projected on a large scale, for the Recitation Room, consisting of a Map of the World, North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, &c., exhibiting the Physical Phenomena of the Globe, etc.
Side 118 - But, on the other hand, the mild climate of England cannot ripen the grape, almost under the same parallel where grow still the delicious wines of the Rhine. At Astracan, on the northern shore of the Caspian, Humboldt says, the grapes and fruits of every kind are as beautiful and luscious as in the Canaries and in Italy; the wines have all the fire of those of the South of Europe, while in the same latitude, at the mouth of the Loire, the vine hardly flourishes at all. And yet, to a summer capable...
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Side 332 - Salem Gazette. A publication of which there is little danger of speaking in too flattering terms ; a perfect Thesaurus' of rare and curious information, carefully selected and methodically arranged.
Side 146 - Whenever the trade wind blows with its wonted regularity, the sky preserves a constant serenity, and a deep azure blue, especially when the sun is in the opposite hemisphere ; the air is dry, and the atmosphere cloudless. But in proportion as the sun approaches the zenith, the trade wind grows irregular, the sky assumes a whitish tint, it becomes overcast, clouds appear, sudden showers, accompanied with fierce storms, ensue.
Side 332 - Anecdotes: and such is the wonderful variety, that it will be found an almost Inexhaustible fund of interest for every class of readers. The elaborate classification and Indexes inn.