 | Science - 1851 - 510 pages
...— but a single mineral, — quadrupeds none, with the exception of foreign mice, — fresh water barely enough for household purposes, — no streams, nor mountains, nor hills? How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits... | |
 | 1850 - 548 pages
...* but a single mineral (coral) ; quadrupeds none, with the exception of foreign mice ; fresh water, barely enough for household purposes ; no streams, nor mountains, nor hills ? How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits... | |
 | Geology - 1850 - 432 pages
...single mineral, — quadrupeds, ii •!!•.•. with the exception of foreign mice, — fresh water barely enough for household purposes, — no streams,...nor mountains, nor hills ! How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits... | |
 | Science - 1850 - 442 pages
...— but a single mineral, — -quadrupeds, none, with the exception of foreign mice, — fresh water barely enough for household purposes, — no streams,...nor mountains, nor hills ! How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 806 pages
...civilized life could exist in a land where shells are the only cutting instruments — fresh water barely enough for household purposes — no streams,...persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits of a coral-island, who had never conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth — of a slope... | |
 | Science - 1872 - 798 pages
...civilized life could exist in a land where shells are the only cutting instruments — fresh water barely enough for household purposes — no streams,...persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits of a coral-island, who had never conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth — of a slope... | |
 | James Dwight Dana - Coral reefs and islands - 1872 - 430 pages
...minerals but one, — quadrupeds none, with the exception of foreign rats or mice, — fresh water barely enough for household purposes, — no streams,...nor mountains, nor hills ? How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits... | |
 | Charles Ives - Bahamas - 1880 - 432 pages
...mental and moral," although "there is poetry in its every feature." " How much," he pertinently asks, " of the poetry and literature of Europe would be intelligible...had expanded only to the limits of a coral island? What elevation in morals should be expected upon a contracted island, so readily overstocked that threatened... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Sociology - 1883 - 874 pages
...life could exist in a land where sheila are the only cutting instruments — fresh water barely enongh for household purposes — no streams, nor mountains,...persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits of a coral-island, who had never conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth — of a slope... | |
 | William De Witt Alexander - History - 1891 - 388 pages
...barely enough for household purposes ; no streams, or mountains, or hills ? How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons...who had never conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth, of a slope higher than a beach, of a change of seasons beyond a variation in... | |
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How much of the poetry or literature of Europe would be intelligible to persons whose ideas had expanded only to the limits of a coral island, — who had never conceived of a surface of land above half a mile in breadth, of a slope higher than a beach,... 
