| Thomas Jefferson - 1904 - 536 páginas
...Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes...having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 520 páginas
...Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes...having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment... | |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Kent - 1909 - 526 páginas
...Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes...having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1915 - 976 páginas
...the Potomac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes...having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment... | |
| 1924 - 896 páginas
...one of the most stupendous scenes in nature," wrote Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia. "You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes...the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountains an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage... | |
| Slason Thompson - 1925 - 494 páginas
...the shadow of the giant rock overlooking the scene depicted in the engraving. "You stand," says he, "on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent; on your £^^^ the in quest of a portage also.... | |
| Slason Thompson - 1925 - 498 páginas
...the shadow of the giant rock overlooking the scene depicted in the engraving. "You stand," says he, "on a very high point of land; on your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent; on your POINT OF ROCKS left approaches the... | |
| J. Cecil Alter - 1928 - 836 páginas
...here, forming a scene of unsurpassed beauty of which Thomas Jefferson wrote as follows: "You stand on a very high point of land; on your right comes...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to find a vent; on your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - 420 páginas
...Potomac through the Blue Ridge is, perhaps, one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes...Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In... | |
| Annette Kolodny - 1975 - 204 páginas
...excitedly guided the eye through a landscape of contrasts, moving the reader from the rushing rhythm of "the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent," to the climactic "moment of. . .junction,. . . [the two rivers] rushfing] together... | |
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