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" But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents... "
Peter Parley's Book of Curiosities: Natural and Artificial : Illustrated ... - Page 144
by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 224 pages
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The American Geography: Or, a View of the Present Situation of the United ...

Jedidiah Morse - 1792 - 522 pages
...has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrait to the fore ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven »Kinder, ihe prefents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an...
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An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of ..., Volume 3

William Winterbotham - 1795 - 558 pages
...given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contraft to the fore ground ; it is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain, being cloven afunder, prefents to the eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - 1801 - 402 pages
...finiíhing which nature has given to. the picture, is of a very different character. It is a, true contrail to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful,...wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven afunder, me prefents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmooth blue horizon, at an infinite...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 pages
...But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid...presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the...
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The Columbian Reader: Comprising a New and Various Selection of Elegant ...

Rodolphus Dickinson - 1815 - 214 pages
...But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different-character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid...presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite'distance in the plain country, inviting you as it were, from the...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 944 pages
...the distant finishing " which nature has given to the picture, is " of a very different character. It is a true " contrast to the foreground. It is as placid " and delightful, as that is wild and tre" mendous. For the mountain being cloven " asunder, she presents to your eye, through " the cleft,...
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Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817

Francis Hall - 1818 - 344 pages
...the distant finishing' which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground-. It is as placid and delighfful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to...
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Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and ...

Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pages
...But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid...presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you as it were, from the...
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Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826, Volumes 1-2

Karl Bernard (Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) - 1828 - 478 pages
...But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid...presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the...
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The Modern Traveller: A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and ...

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...But the distant finishing which Nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid...the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to our eye through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain...
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