 | West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, George Perry Grimsley - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 756
...lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between fivers and mountains which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre." While the explanation of Jefferson can hardly be accepted now for the origin of this gorge with more... | |
 | 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic ; . . . these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains...must have shaken the earth itself to its centre." It is a coincidence that at this spot should fall the bolt that shook a nation. sage of peace. The... | |
 | 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 1314
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic; . ... these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains...must have shaken the earth itself to its centre." It is a coincidence that at this spot should fall the bolt that shook a nation. sage of peace. The... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...in fragments over you, and within about twenty miles reach Fredericktown and the fine country around that. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic....which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. ON THE AMERICAN INDIANS [FROM THE SAME] bers produce emulation and multiply the chances of improvement,... | |
 | Charles Burleigh Galbreath - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic ; * * * these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains...which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre. It is a coincidence that at this spot should fall the bolt that shook a nation. Sunday evening, October... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...country adjacent. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic ; yet here, as in the neighbourhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed...must have shaken the earth itself to its centre." Harper's Ferry is also memorable, owing to the insurrection which occurred there on the 17th October,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1970 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below. . . . This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic....mountains which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.16 So beautiful an arch! The Natural Bridge, the most sublime of nature's works, ... is on the... | |
 | Myra Jehlen - 1986 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...with him, drawing a circle of which he is at once center and encompassing circumference. The signs of "a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center" (Notes, 143), as his eye gathers them, thereby center on him, so that he becomes not only an... | |
 | Jack Mclaughlin - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...junction they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off into the sea. . . . This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic....mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center. This is yet another reminder of how forcefully the sublimities of nature impressed themselves... | |
 | William Lach - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 65
...country round that. This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighbourhood of the natural bridge, are people who have passed...mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its center. THOMAS STARR KING King (1824-1864 ) never attended theological school but enjoyed tremendous... | |
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This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains,... 
