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66 Water , undergoing congelation in the heavens , and falling upon the earth , exhibits itself in the form either of snow or hail ; that congealing upon the surface of of the earth is termed ice ...
66 Water , undergoing congelation in the heavens , and falling upon the earth , exhibits itself in the form either of snow or hail ; that congealing upon the surface of of the earth is termed ice ...
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That they are oftener formed in the clouds than upon the earth , Dr. Black very rationally supposes to be owing to the fewer obstacles which exist there to oppose the peculiar crystallic disposition of water .
That they are oftener formed in the clouds than upon the earth , Dr. Black very rationally supposes to be owing to the fewer obstacles which exist there to oppose the peculiar crystallic disposition of water .
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They may confine to these channels the deposite of earth left by floods ; but an accumulation of deposites thus confined has , in many parts , raised those channels above the level of the country . Should any water , therefore , escape ...
They may confine to these channels the deposite of earth left by floods ; but an accumulation of deposites thus confined has , in many parts , raised those channels above the level of the country . Should any water , therefore , escape ...
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It is to such a period that we are indebted for the new science of geology , or the knowledge of the solid part of the earth . This science was for a long time blended with natural history , mineralogy , astronomy , cosmogony ...
It is to such a period that we are indebted for the new science of geology , or the knowledge of the solid part of the earth . This science was for a long time blended with natural history , mineralogy , astronomy , cosmogony ...
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We shall conclude in the words of this author , - " The earth is every day moulding down into a form more capable of producing and increasing vegetable matter , the food of animals , and consequently progressing towards a state of ...
We shall conclude in the words of this author , - " The earth is every day moulding down into a form more capable of producing and increasing vegetable matter , the food of animals , and consequently progressing towards a state of ...
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Page 392 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt...
Page 209 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 329 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 89 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 208 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Page 115 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 165 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 208 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 115 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed...
Page 405 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
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| Title | The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 3 Volume 58 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Editors | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley |
| Publisher | H. Bigelow, Esq., editor and proprietor, 1818 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
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