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
| Edwin Brett - Sailing - 1869 - 168 pages
...yet published on the English language, sets Jiimself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character, and, approximately, the extent of the changes produced by human action i?i the physical condition of the globe we inhabit. The whole of Mr. Marsh's book is an eloquent showing... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...himself in excellent spirit, and with immense learning, to indicate the character, and, approxi. mateli/, the extent of 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... | |
| Ballad stories - 1869 - 226 pages
...yet published on the Knglish Iangunge, sets himself in excellent spirit, and with intinfnse learning, to indicate the character, and, approximately, the extent of the changes produced hy human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhibit. The whole of Mr. Marsh's book is... | |
| John Christopher Atkinson - 1870 - 394 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 conditinn of the globe we inhabit. The whole of Mr. Marsh's book is an eloquent showing of the duty... | |
| Fulgence Marion - Physical optics - 1870 - 320 pages
...; cloth, $3 oo The author succinctly states the object of this volume as follows in the preface : " To indicate the character and approximately the extent of the changes produced by human aflion in the physical conditions of the glolĀ« we inhabit ; to point out the dangers of imprudence... | |
| Education - 1864 - 502 pages
...or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. By GEORGE P. MARSH. New York : Charles Scribner. the character, and, approximately, the extent of the...human action in the physical conditions of the globe, to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution, in all operations which, on a... | |
| 1893 - 226 pages
...Possible Geographical Changes by Man. The object of this work, as stated by its anthor in the preface, is: "To indicate the character, and approximately...out the dangers of imprudence, and the necessity of cantion in all operations which, on a large scale, interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the... | |
| Robert L. Dorman - Nature - 1998 - 278 pages
...book of no small ambition. In almost 500 pages of detailed and heavily footnoted text. Marsh surveyed the "changes produced by human action in the physical conditions of the globe we inhabit." He examined the effects of human activities on diverse animal species and a variety of environments... | |
| Paul R. Samson, David Pitt - Business & Economics - 1999 - 228 pages
...ptesent volume is to indicate the chatactet and, apptoximately, the extent of the changes ptoduced by human action in the physical conditions of the globe we inhabit; to point out the dangets ot imptudence and the necestity ot caution in all opetations which, on a latge scale, intetfete... | |
| Mitchell Thomashow - Science - 2001 - 262 pages
...the environment, and the global consequences of this impact. Marsh describes the purpose of his work "is to indicate the character and, approximately,...the changes produced by human action in the physical condition of the globe we inhabit; to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution... | |
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