 In their country, the physical causes arc so active, and do their work on a scale of such unrivalled magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...  Brazil: Its Condition and Prospects - Page 94by Christopher Columbus Andrews - 1891 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...insects. The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers too wide to bridge ; every thing is contrived to repress the human mind, and keep back its rising ambition.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...forests, and the harvests are destroyed by innumerable insects.154 The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers are too wide to bridge ; every thing is... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - England - 1858 - 752 pages
...agriculture is stopped by impassable forests, and the harvests are destroyed by innumerable insects.154/ The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers are too wide t* bridge; every thing is contrived to keep back the human mind, and repress its rising ambition. It... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...insects. The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers too wide to bridge ; every thing is contrived to repress the human mind, and keep back its rising ambition.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1857 - 886 pages
...magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...forests, and the harvests are destroyed by innumerable insects.154 The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers are too wide to bridge ; every thing is... | |
 | William McCombie - Christianity and culture - 1864 - 178 pages
...impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture has been stopped by impassable forests, and the harvests are...everything is contrived to keep back the human mind." — (pp 95-96). We could go on, ad libitum, with quotations to the same purport, but we suppose these... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1865 - 724 pages
...magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...the harvests are destroyed by innumerable insects. 1S< The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers are too wide to bridge; every thing is contrived... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1871 - 822 pages
...are so formidable that man cannot make head against them or rally against their accumulated pressure. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...The mountains are too high to scale — the rivers too wide to bridge." The land is principally in the hands of large holders, who cultivate but a snnll... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1871 - 822 pages
...are so formidable that man cannot make head against them or rally against their accumulated pressure. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable...are destroyed by innumerable insects. The mountains aro too high to scale — the rivers too wide to bridge." The land is principally in the hands of large... | |
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