Language," &c. 8vo. cloth, 14s. " Mr. Marsh, well known as the author of two of the most scholarly works yet published on the English language, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character, and, approximately,... Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action - Page iiiby George Perkins Marsh - 1864 - 560 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bibliography, National - 1863 - 444 pages
...Uniform with Lectures on the English Language. 1 vol. octavo, cloth, $3 50; half calf, $5. * . "The object of the present volume is, to indicate the character, and, approximately, the extent of the changes prodnced by hnman action In the physical conditions of the globe we inhabit ; to point out the dangers... | |
| English literature - 1864 - 618 pages
...the subject, it is fair to let Mr. Marsh himself speak of the design he has had in view :— ' The object of the present volume is: to indicate the character...action in the physical conditions of the globe we inhabit;—to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which,... | |
| Charles Allston Collins - Fiction - 1864 - 294 pages
...cloth, 14*. [Eeady this day. *,* The object of this Volume, as described by the Author in his Preface, is to indicate the character and, approximately, the...the physical conditions of the Globe we inhabit to suggest the possibility and the importance of the restoration of disturbed harmonies, and the material... | |
| James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1864 - 376 pages
...yet published on the English language, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character and, approximately, the...the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhabit. In four divisions of his work, Mr. Marsh traces the history of human... | |
| Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...the author of this valuable volume. He sets forth its object in the first few words of the preface: "To indicate the character, and, approximately, the...in the physical conditions of the globe we inhabit ; to-point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which, on a... | |
| Anthony Francis Thomson - Domestic education - 1865 - 360 pages
...yet published on the English language, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character and, approximately, the...the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of th^1 globe we inhabit. In four divisions of his work, Mr. Marsh traces the history of... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1866 - 176 pages
...Human Action, (New York, Scribner, 8vo, pp. 560). The object of this work, as stated by the author, is "to indicate the character, and, approximately,...physical conditions of the globe we inhabit; to point out tho dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which, on a large scale, interfere... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1867 - 334 pages
...yet published on the English language, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character, and, approximately, the...the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhabit. In four dirisions of his work, Mr. Marsh traces the history of human... | |
| Martha Stone Hubbell - 1867 - 362 pages
...yet published on the English language, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character, and, approximately, the...extent of the changes produced by human action in the physiral condition of the globe we inhabit. In four divisions of his work, Mr. Marsh traces the history... | |
| The London Quarterly VOL.XXVII October 1866 and January,1867 - 1867 - 554 pages
...host of thinkers, Mr. Marsh has worked out a valuable description—so far as science has gone — of the extent of the changes produced by human action in the physical conditions of our globe. He seeks, moreover, to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution... | |
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