 | Jean André Luc - 1811 - 580 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1836 - 396 pages
...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 - 1839 - 522 pages
...to walk over villages swallowed up by the sand of the Desert, to trample under foot their roofs and minarets, and to reflect that yonder were cultivated...that here were the dwellings of men, and that all have now vanished. The sands of the Desert were in ancient times remote from Egypt ; and the Oases... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1840 - 266 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1863 - 394 pages
...to walk over villages swallowed up by the sand of the desert; to trample under foot their roofs and minarets; and to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that there grew trees, that here were tha * Richardson. " And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be... | |
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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, to strike against the summits of their minarets, to reflect that yonder were cultivated fields, that... 