 To the eye educated to any other, it may be shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible ; but " those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles.  North America: The United States - Page 73by Samuel Edward Dawson, Henry Gannett - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1900 - 508 pages
...and capacious of effects as any others. Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canyon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce...spectacles. If its sublimity consisted only in its dim nsions, it could be sufficiently set forth in a single sentence. It is more than 200 miles long,... | |
 | William M. Thayer - Agriculture - 1887 - 768 pages
...for the United States Government, says : " Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Cafion of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. If its sublimity consisted only in its dimensions,... | |
 | Literature - 1891 - 1038 pages
...of scenery. To the eye educated to any other, it may be shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible; but "those who have long and carefully studied the Grand...by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles." I have space only to refer to the geologic history in Captain Button's report of 1882, of which there... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 248 pages
...scenery. To the eye educated to any other, it may be shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible ; but u those who have long and carefully studied the Grand...by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles." I have space only to refer to the geologic history in Captain Dutton's report of 1882, of which there... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literary Criticism - 1891 - 250 pages
...shocking, grotesque, incomprehensible ; but " those who have .long and carefully studied the Grand Cafion of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce...by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles." I have space only to refer to the geologic history in Captain Button's report of 1882, of which there... | |
 | Charles Fletcher Lummis - Indians of North America - 1892 - 294 pages
...of gorges and mountains, it would take a guide who knew of its existence a long time to find it. ... Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand...by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles." Very few Americans see the Grand Canon — shamefully few. Most of it lies in an absolute desert, where... | |
 | Charles Fletcher Lummis - Southwest, New - 1892 - 296 pages
...gorges and mountains, it would take a guide who knew of its existence a long time to find it. . . . Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand...moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all cart hly- spectacles." Very few Americans see the Grand Canon — shamefully few. Most of it lies in... | |
 | Charles Fletcher Lummis - Indians of North America - 1892 - 302 pages
...its existence a long time to find it. ... Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Caiion of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce...by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles." Very few Americans see the Grand Canon — shamefully t'ew. Most of it lies in an absolute desert,... | |
 | Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - Education - 1900 - 718 pages
...scientific features, do what he can to help us. "Those who have long and carefully studied the Grand Canyon of the Colorado do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce...by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. It is more than 200 miles long, from five to twelve miles wide, and from 5,000 to 6,000 feet deep.... | |
 | Arizona. Governor - Arizona - 1898 - 1274 pages
...conception of its awful immensity and splendid l>eauty. Distinguished savants and celebrated travelers do not hesitate for a moment to pronounce it by far the most sublime of all earthly spectacles. Its colossal buttes, its wealth of ornamentation, the splendor of its colors, and its wonderful atmosphere... | |
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