The Quarterly Review, 14. köideWilliam Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1815 |
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Page 368
... Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland ; with Maps , Plans , & c . Written in French by Alexander de Humboldt , and Translated into English by Helen Maria Williams . Vols . i . & ii , London . 1814 . WE E have been rather tardy in directing our ...
... Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland ; with Maps , Plans , & c . Written in French by Alexander de Humboldt , and Translated into English by Helen Maria Williams . Vols . i . & ii , London . 1814 . WE E have been rather tardy in directing our ...
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... Humboldt found grouped in rows , and a continu- ation of the chains of primitive rocks ; but discovered on one of ... Humboldt to have proved his point , that the Canaries have no more been created by volcanoes than the whole body of the ...
... Humboldt found grouped in rows , and a continu- ation of the chains of primitive rocks ; but discovered on one of ... Humboldt to have proved his point , that the Canaries have no more been created by volcanoes than the whole body of the ...
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... Humboldt , in his hasty excursion to the top of the peak by no means ; it was dressed up with great care and study in his closet , according to a rule , and from materials , which he derived chiefly from M. Broussonnet , who probably ...
... Humboldt , in his hasty excursion to the top of the peak by no means ; it was dressed up with great care and study in his closet , according to a rule , and from materials , which he derived chiefly from M. Broussonnet , who probably ...
Contents
A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
The Character of Moses established for Veracity as a Historian | 96 |
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