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" But as a general rule, not only is it without the two main elements of beauty — variety of outline and variety of colour — but the features rarely so group together as to form any distinct or impressive combination. The tangled and featureless hills... "
Nile to Aleppo: With the Light-horse in the Middle-East - Page 91
by Hector Dinning - 1920 - 287 pages
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 5

1856 - 504 pages
...what constitutes beauty of scenery, or must have viewed the country through a highly-coloured medium. As a general rule, not only is it without the two...outline and variety of colour, but the features rarely 10 group together as to form any distinct or impressive conviction. The tangled and featureless hills...
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the new montly magazine

william harrison ainsworth - 1856 - 524 pages
...denies to the scenery of Palestine any peculiar claims to beauty. The country, he says, is not only without the two main elements of beauty — variety...the features rarely so group together as to form any distinctive or impressive combination. The hills are generally rounded and of a grey colour — grey...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 48

1856 - 782 pages
...the exception of the plain of Esdraelou, is not remarkable for its beauty. Mr. Stanley says, It lacks the two main elements of beauty, variety of outline, and variety of colour. The tangled and featureless hills of the lowlands of Scotland and North Wales are, perhaps, the nearest...
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The Sunday Magazine

Thomas Guthrie - 1865 - 976 pages
...either a very inaccurate notion of what constitutes beauty of scenery, or must have viewed the "Wintry through a highly coloured medium. There are no doubt...general rule, not only is it without the two main Clements of beauty — variety of outline and variety of colour — but the features rarely so group...
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The Home of God's People

William Leonard Gage - 1873 - 576 pages
...what constitutes beauty of scenery, or must have viewed the country through a highly colored medium. As a general rule, not only is it without the two...elements of beauty — variety of outline and variety of color — but the features rarely so group together as to form any distinct or impressive combination....
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"God's Treasure-house in Scotland", a History of Times, Mines, and Lands in ...

James Moir Porteous - 1876 - 322 pages
...assist the weary traveller. Dean Stanley, in describing the character of the hills of Palestine, says, " As a general rule, not only is it without the two main elements of beauty — variety of outline and 12 variety of colour — but the features rarely so group together as to form any distinct or impressive...
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Palestine, Historical and Descriptive; Or, The Home of God's People

William Leonard Gage - 1883 - 580 pages
...what constitutes beauty of scenery, or must have viewed the country through a highly colored medium. As a general rule, not only is it without the two...elements of beauty — variety of outline and variety of color — but the features rarely so group together as to form any distinct or impressive combination....
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Thirty Years in Madagascar

Thomas Trotter Matthews - 1904 - 456 pages
...island through a highly-coloured medium. As a general rule, not only is the central province of Imerina without the two main elements of beauty — variety...outline and variety of colour — but the features are rarely so grouped together as to form any distinct or impressive combination. The tangled and almost...
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Sinai and Palestine: In Connection with Their History

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1905 - 672 pages
...great extent have anti- Scenery or cipated what can be said of its scenery. Yet the ^destine. sharacter of scenery depends so much on its form and colour,...two main elements of beauty — variety of outline tnd variety of colour — but the features rarely so group together as to form any distinct or impressive...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 4; Volume 10

1868 - 718 pages
...beauty of vegetable covering ; if they must be adjudged imperfectly gifted with what have been termed the two main elements of beauty, variety of outline and variety of colour ; yet in the third commonly noted point of the picturesque — water, in all its features — they...
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