Studies of Nature, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1809 - Natural history |
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... effect at which they aim . But like Cassandra , in the Iliad , he has had the pleasing consci- ousness of having declared the truth , and the mortification of seeing it en- tirely disregarded . We must therefore respect the Man , even ...
... effect at which they aim . But like Cassandra , in the Iliad , he has had the pleasing consci- ousness of having declared the truth , and the mortification of seeing it en- tirely disregarded . We must therefore respect the Man , even ...
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... effect on the mediterraneans and lakes . of the torrid Zone itself , I make her to act on the frozen Seas of the Poles , by the reflected heat of the Sun , acknowledged by the Ancients * , de- * " The Moon dissolves ice by the humidity ...
... effect on the mediterraneans and lakes . of the torrid Zone itself , I make her to act on the frozen Seas of the Poles , by the reflected heat of the Sun , acknowledged by the Ancients * , de- * " The Moon dissolves ice by the humidity ...
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... , with our instruments of Philosophy , to arrive at the capability of determining the effects of natural causes . * .Newton's Philosophy , chap , xxv . appear appear to have been hitherto ignorant , that there existed viii ADVERTISEMENT .
... , with our instruments of Philosophy , to arrive at the capability of determining the effects of natural causes . * .Newton's Philosophy , chap , xxv . appear appear to have been hitherto ignorant , that there existed viii ADVERTISEMENT .
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... effect , for I can flatter only where I love . Fly from the world , then , ye who will neither flatter nor ma- -lign ; for you will lose in it , at once , the good which you expected from it , and that which is the gift of your own ...
... effect , for I can flatter only where I love . Fly from the world , then , ye who will neither flatter nor ma- -lign ; for you will lose in it , at once , the good which you expected from it , and that which is the gift of your own ...
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... effects on ice and water , from Pliny , and from recent experiments made at Rome and at Paris ; of the Currents , and Tides which flow alternately from the Poles toward the Equator , from Christo- pher Columbus , Barents , Marten ...
... effects on ice and water , from Pliny , and from recent experiments made at Rome and at Paris ; of the Currents , and Tides which flow alternately from the Poles toward the Equator , from Christo- pher Columbus , Barents , Marten ...
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Page 45 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 161 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Page 168 - When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 168 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 169 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and they stand as a garment.
Page 169 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Page 169 - Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth ? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Page 124 - The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; Even the waters forgotten of the foot; They are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Page 168 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 161 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.