 Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence.  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Seite 2451816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence.' Johnson's Works, ix. 36. ' All travel has its advantages. If the traveller visits better countries... | |
 | William Cowper, Thomas Wright - 1904 - 572 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence. — Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. ever esteemed and honoured with the justest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 270 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence. As the day advanced towards noon, we entered a narrow valley not very flowery, but sufficiently verdant.... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1921 - 742 Seiten
...great part of the earth, and that anyone who has never seen it must live unacquainted with much of the face of Nature, and with one of the great scenes of human experience. There he gives us the angle of his view ; to travel in wild country does not quicken our... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence. " As the day advanced towards noon, we entered a narrow valley, not very flowery, but sufficiently... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 Seiten
...a great part of the earth, and he that has ; never ^seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the ', face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human \ existence. —1 As the day advanced towards noon, we entered a narrowvalley not veryflowery, but sufficiently... | |
 | Arthur McDowall - 1925 - 196 Seiten
...great part of the earth, and that anyone who has never seen it must live unacquainted with much of the face of Nature, and with one of the great scenes of human experience. There he gives us the angle of his view; to travel in wild country does not quicken our... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth: and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence." Among the eloquent paslages which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence" (35) . Johnson's own situation now reappears, tonally altered. Amid the "rudeness, silence, and solitude"... | |
 | Peter Martin - 2002 - 644 Seiten
...make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them, must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature, and with one of the great scenes of human existence.' One did not so much climb these mountains, he wrote, as traverse them, so that as they went forward... | |
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