 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 páginas
...tyrants, he is not led to suspect that nature also has had her intestine wars, and that the surface 01 the globe has been much convulsed by successive revolutions and various catastrophes. But his ideas change as soon as he digs into that soil which presented such a peaceful aspect, or ascends... | |
 | 1844 - 836 páginas
...the oppression of tyrants, he is not led to suspect that nature also has had her intestine wars, and that the surface of the globe has been much convulsed...by successive revolutions and various catastrophes. But his ideas change as soon as he digs into that soil which presented such a peaceful aspect, or ascends... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1871 - 224 páginas
...the oppression of tyrants, he is not led to suspect that nature also has had her intestine wars, and that the surface of the globe has been much convulsed...by successive revolutions and various catastrophes. But his ideas change as soon as he digs into that soil which presented such a peaceful aspect. * *... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1901 - 500 páginas
...ridiculed.* He at the outset affirms that nature has, like mankind, also had her intestine wars, and that "the surface of the globe has been much convulsed...successive revolutions and various catastrophes." As first proof of the revolutions on the surface of the earth he instances fossil shells, which in... | |
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... adorned with flourishing villages, opulent cities, and superb monuments, is never disturbed except by the ravages of war and the oppression of tyrants, he is not led to suspect that nature also has had her intestine wars, and that the surface of the... 