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. Brazilian Literature - Página 8por Isaac Goldberg - 1922 - 303 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1860 - 620 páginas
...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...that 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,... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 882 páginas
...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,...that 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,... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1858 - 752 páginas
...vast river-system peculiar to the eastern part of America, and being also accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity unequalled in...that 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,... | |
| 1858 - 604 páginas
...vast river system peculiar to the eastern parts of America, and being also accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity unequalled in...that 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,... | |
| 1858 - 754 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,...that 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,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 páginas
...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,...that 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,... | |
| Henry Thomas Buckle - 1857 - 886 páginas
...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,...that 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,... | |
| James William Buel - 1884 - 832 páginas
...South America, and being also accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity uuequaled in any other part of the world. Brazil, which is nearly...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... | |
| Christopher Columbus Andrews - 1887 - 374 páginas
...is found on mountains more frequently than on low land. Mr. Buckle, in his well-known work, says : " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...that Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. . . . The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable forests, and the harvests are destroyed... | |
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