 ... had time to escape from them. The summer is not over before the scene undergoes another rapid change ; the thistles suddenly lose their sap and verdure, their heads droop, the leaves shrink and fade, the stems become black and dead, and they remain...  The Westminster Review - Página 1921826Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1826 - 470 páginas
...is really possible that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned with these thistles before they had time to escape from...scene is again verdant. Although a few individuals arc either scattered along the path which traverses these vast plains, or are living together in small... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1826 - 330 páginas
...unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible, that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles...general state of the country is the same as it has OF THE PAMPAS. 5 been since the first year of its creation. The whole country bears the noble stamp... | |
 | 1826 - 726 páginas
...one against another, until the violence of the pampero or hurricane levels them with the ground, when they rapidly decompose and disappear —the clover rushes up, and the scene Is verdant again. The vast region of grass in the Pampas for 450 miles Is without a weed, and the region... | |
 | 1827 - 500 páginas
...unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible, that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles...clover rushes up, and the scene is again verdant." pp. 14 — 16. The inhabitants of this great plain are the Gauchos, or Spanish peasants, and some tribes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 páginas
...that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles before it had time to escape from them. The summer is not over...clover rushes up, and the scene is again verdant.' — Head, p. 2 — 4. The thistles here spoken of we should have thought to belong to the genus serratula,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 páginas
...that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles before it had time to escape from them. The summer is not over...decompose and disappear — the clover rushes up, and the sceile is again verdant.' — Head, p. 2 — 4. The thistles here spoken of we should have thought... | |
 | John Sims - 1828 - 370 páginas
...an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles, before it had time to escape from them. The summer is not over...clover rushes up, and the scene is again verdant." Fig. 1. Portion of a Leaf, nut. size. 2. Floret. 3. Stamens. 4. Hair from among the Florets of the... | |
 | 1828 - 472 páginas
...one against another, until the violence of the pampero or hurricane levels them with the ground, when they rapidly decompose and disappear — the clover rushes up, and the scene is verdant again. The vast region of grass in the Pampas for 450 miles, is without a weed, and the region... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 páginas
...unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles...the clover rushes up, and the scene is again verdant — Captain Head's Travel*. 16. Cultivation of Myagrum sativum, or Cultivated Gold of Pleasure —... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1836 - 588 páginas
...unusual misfortune in military history, yet it is really possible that an invading army, unacquainted with this country, might be imprisoned by these thistles...clover rushes up, and the scene is again verdant. The climate of the pampas is subject to a great difference of temperature in winter and summer, though... | |
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