 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pàgines
...himself, as if to awe the mind of the spectator with a holy dread of His own presence. Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks: they looked more...and that at such a distance from the eye, that the forms of the leaves could not be made out. Fifteen Indians, with outstretched arms, could only just... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...size are truly colossal, and in respect of age hare been variously computed at from 2,000 to 4,000 years. 'Never before,' says Martius, 'had I beheld...that the form of the leaves could not be made out. Ffteen Indians, with outstretched arms, could only just embrace one of them. At the bottom they were... | |
 | Life - 1849 - 260 pàgines
...himself, as if to awe the mind of the spectator with a holy dread of His own presence. Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks, —they looked...and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out. Fifteen Indians with outstretched arms could only just embrace... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1855 - 620 pàgines
...circumference, and sixty feet where trie boles became cylindrical. " They looked more like living rock than trees, for it was only on the pinnacle of their...that foliage could be discovered, and that at such a distanee from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out By counting the concentric... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 644 pàgines
...to have been one of the oldest inhabitants of our globe — -was brought down by a tempest in 1822. that foliage could be discovered, and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out." There is a cypress at Chapultepec, in Mexico, which, if... | |
 | B. B. - 1860 - 284 pàgines
...himself, as if to awe the mind of the spectator with a holy dread of his own presence. Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks, — they looked...and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out. Fifteen Indians with outstretched arms could only just embrace... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1861 - 446 pàgines
...bottom they were eighty-four feet in circumference, and sixty feet where the boles became cylindrical "They looked more like living rocks than trees ; for...and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out. The various species of gum- trees J of Australia and Tasmania... | |
 | Frank Leslie - 1870 - 400 pàgines
...Himself, as if to awe the mind of the spectator with a holy dread of His own presence. Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks ; they looked more...and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out. Fifteen Indians with outstretched arms could only just embrace... | |
 | Beauties - 1866 - 310 pàgines
...himself, as if to awe the mind of the spectator with a holy dread of his own presence. Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks, they looked more...and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms of the leaves could not be made out. Fifteen Indians with outstretched arms could only just embrace... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 pàgines
...himself, as if to awe the mind of the spectator with a holy dread of his own presence. Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks : they looked more...trees, for it was only on the pinnacle of their bare und naked bark that foliage could be discovered, and that at such a distance from the eye, that the... | |
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Never before had I beheld such enormous trunks, — they looked more like living rocks than trees ; for it was only on the pinnacle of their bare and naked bark that foliage could be discovered, and that at such a distance from the eye that the forms... 
