 No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of oxen. Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be able to discover the marks of modern wheels, where you still perceive in the...  Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Through Egypt - Page 222by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1835Full view - About this book
 | 1811 - 438 pages
...children. The country in general is uncultivated, bare, monotonous, wild, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no...dry in summer. No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are !o be seen in the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of oxen. Nothing... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 546 pages
...children. The country in genenal is uncultivated, bare, monotonous, wild, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no...any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no hushandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of oxen. — Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 550 pages
...of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no rivers that deserve the appellation j but small streams and torrents which are dry in summer....the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet no carte, no teams of oxen. — Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be able to discover the marks... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 548 pages
...children. The country in genenal is uncultivated, bare, monotonous, wild, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no rivers that deserve the appellation f but small streams and torrents which are dry in summer. No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 480 pages
...children.— The countrv in general is uncultivated, bare, monotonous, wild, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no...small streams and torrents which are dry in summer. IS'o farm houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet... | |
 | 1827 - 1164 pages
...are no rivers (hat deserve the appellation ; but small streams and torrents that are dry in sammer. No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no busbandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of oxeb. Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be able... | |
 | 1827 - 918 pages
...uncultivated, bare, monotonous, « ¡Id, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. Hiere are no rivers that deserve the appellation ; but small streams and torrents that are dry in summer. No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe... | |
 | 1827 - 912 pages
...children. The country in general is uncultivated, bare, monotonous, wild, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no...deserve the appellation ; but small streams and torrents that are dry in summer. No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 pages
...that deserve the appellation ; but small streams aud torrents which are dry in summer. No farm houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you...observe no husbandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of стeп. Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be able to discover the marks of modern wheels,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 492 pages
...children.— The country in general is uncultivated, bare, monotonous, wild, and the ground of a yellow hue, the colour of withered herbage. There are no...small streams and torrents which are dry in summer. No farm houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet no... | |
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