The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 pagini |
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Pagina 88
... covered with full moons would scarcely make daylight . From various experiments that have been made , it is supposed that the lunar light is only equal to the 300,000th part that of the sun . Its rays , there- fore , when collected by ...
... covered with full moons would scarcely make daylight . From various experiments that have been made , it is supposed that the lunar light is only equal to the 300,000th part that of the sun . Its rays , there- fore , when collected by ...
Pagina 101
... covered its planetary character at Bath in 1781 , and thus effected an achievement , no parallel to which history before had chronicled . For some time previous , astronomers had been aware of the motions of Jupiter and Saturn being ...
... covered its planetary character at Bath in 1781 , and thus effected an achievement , no parallel to which history before had chronicled . For some time previous , astronomers had been aware of the motions of Jupiter and Saturn being ...
Pagina 126
... covered with clouds for weeks . We were approaching the cataract Ouropocari in 4 ° 11 ' north latitude , and had encamped , on the 8th of March , three miles below it , when , for the first time since our departure from the coast , the ...
... covered with clouds for weeks . We were approaching the cataract Ouropocari in 4 ° 11 ' north latitude , and had encamped , on the 8th of March , three miles below it , when , for the first time since our departure from the coast , the ...
Pagina 206
... covered ; but its height does not form a twenty - second part of the total elevation , and the sides of the mountain are coated with blocks of dark - coloured lava , or with luxuriant vegetation , the masses of which reflect little ...
... covered ; but its height does not form a twenty - second part of the total elevation , and the sides of the mountain are coated with blocks of dark - coloured lava , or with luxuriant vegetation , the masses of which reflect little ...
Pagina 208
... covered with villages . Examining still more in detail , he would remark that the central range is composed of lofty peaks and smaller chains , covered with snow on their tops , but having all their slopes that are not very much ...
... covered with villages . Examining still more in detail , he would remark that the central range is composed of lofty peaks and smaller chains , covered with snow on their tops , but having all their slopes that are not very much ...
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Pagina 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Pagina 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Pagina 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Pagina 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Pagina 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Pagina 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Pagina 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Pagina 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Pagina 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Pagina 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.