 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 lehte
...seem destined only for the development of vegetable life, and 342 AMERICA THE FIELD FOB A NATURALIST. to be the domain of wild animals. The savages of America,...organic life, those climates varying by stages as wo climb the flanks of the Cordilleras, and those majestic rivers which a celebrated writer (Chateaubriand)... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1814 - 372 lehte
...mankind, and of the ancient revolutions which have agitated the human race, it offers an ample field to the labours of the naturalist. On no other part of...to raise himself to general ideas on the cause of the phenomena, and their natural connection. I shall not speak of that luxuriance of vegetation, that... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1814 - 372 lehte
...mankind, and of the ancient revolutions which have agitated the >U human race, it offers an ample field to the labours of the naturalist. On no other part of...to raise himself to general ideas on the cause of the phaenomena, and their natural connection. I shall not speak of that luxuriance of vegetation, that... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1818 - 666 lehte
...mankind, and of the ancient rerolutions which have agitated the human race, it offers an ample field to the labours of the naturalist. On no other part of...to raise himself to general ideas on' the cause of the phenomena, and their natural connection. I shall not speak of that luxuriance of vegetation, that... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 532 lehte
...or it exhibits merely the uniformity of manners and institutions transplanted by European colonies to foreign shores. Information which relates to the...and those majestic rivers which a celebrated writer (Chateaubriand) has described with such graceful accuracy, the resources which the New World affords... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 lehte
...or it exhibits merejy the uniformity of manners and institutions transplanted by European colonies to foreign shores. Information which relates to the...and those majestic rivers which a celebrated writer (Chateaubriand) has described with such graceful accuracy, the resources which the New World aTFords... | |
 | Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse - 1999 - 348 lehte
...mankind, and of the ancient revolutions which have agitated the human race, it offers an ample field to the labours of the naturalist. On no other part of...to raise himself to general ideas on the cause of the phenomena, and their natural connection. I shall not speak of that luxuriance of vegetation, that... | |
 | Hugh Raffles - 2002 - 324 lehte
...letters extracted by Wallace in his autobiography. Humboldt had extended an irresistible challenge: "America offers an ample field for the labours of...the cause of phenomena and their mutual connection" (Humboldt and Bonpland, Personal Narrative, vol. 1, xxi). Thomas R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - 2002 - 284 lehte
...inventory of all species of life on Earth within the next 25 years — a human generation." Introduction America offers an ample field for the labours of the...the cause of phenomena and their mutual connection. . . . The resources which the New World affords for the study of geology and natural philosophy in... | |
 | Robert J. Richards - 2002 - 626 lehte
...mankind, and of the ancient revolutions which have agitated the human race, it offers an ample field to the labours of the naturalist. On no other part of...to raise himself to general ideas on the cause of the phenomena, and their natural connection. I shall not speak of that luxuriance of vegetation, that... | |
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America, who have been the objects of so many systematic reveries, and on whom M. Volney has lately published some accurate and intelligent observations inspire less interest since celebrated navigators have made known to us the inhabitants of the South... 