 | Jean André Luc - 1811 - 580 ページ
...the desert, to tram " pie under foot their roofs, to strike against the " summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder <{ were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that " here were even the dwellings of men, and that all " has vanished." " If then our continents were as ancient as... | |
 | Jean André Luc - 1811 - 576 ページ
...the desert, to tram* " pie under foot their roofs, to strike against the " summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder " were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that " here were even the dwellings of men, and that all " has vanished." " If then our continents were as -ancient... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1835 - 318 ページ
...the sand of the desert ; to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, and to reflect, that yonder were cultivated...that here were the dwellings of men, — and that all has vanished ! In like manner, the increase of Coral reefs has produced an important change in the... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 396 ページ
...of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." De Luc draws an argument from these sand floods... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1840 - 266 ページ
...of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." Drift sands on the sea-coast may be fixed by... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1841 - 398 ページ
...of the desert, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." De Luc draws an argument from these sand floods... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1848 - 526 ページ
...pyramids, the sepulchres of a mighty race of monarchs, and the wonder of the world — her temples, and palaces, once so splendid and massive, as to bid...fertile soils which formerly extended to the Nile."* In the maritime plains and valleys of Peru the same cause is operating slowly, but with unremitting... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 ページ
...sand of the desert, to trample underfoot their roofs, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were even the dwellings of men, — and that all has vanished ! Jameson remarks upon these statements, that... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 ページ
...of the desert ; to trample under foot their roofs ; to strike against the summits of theirminarets: to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields ; that there grew trees ; that here were even the dwellings of men, and that all have vanished." But it is not only in countries remarkable... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell, Thomas Rupert Jones - 1857 - 532 ページ
...temples of her gods half buried beneath the sands of the Desert ! The drifting of the sands of the Libyan desert by the westerly winds, observes M. De Luc,...fertile soils which formerly extended to the Nile." * In the maritime plains and valleys of Peru the same cause is operating slowly, but with unremitting... | |
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Nothing can be more melancholy," says Denon, "than to walk over villages swallowed up by the sand of the Desert, to trample under foot their roofs... 
