 | Science - 1828 - 456 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct : A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning ; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1828 - 596 pages
...transparent, they arc again reflected in the horizon. A coppery or yellow sun set generally foretels rain : but, as an indication of wet weather approaching,...rainbow in the morning' is the shepherd's warning, "Л rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight." It may be thus explained. Л rainbow can only occur... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - Fishing - 1828 - 300 pages
...the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. HAL. — I have often observed that the old proverb is correct — A rainbow in the morning...warning : A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. Can you explain this omen ? PHYS. — A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing,... | |
 | Geology - 1828 - 450 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct : A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning ; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | English literature - 1828 - 724 pages
...the nearer the clouds, and consequently the mure ready to fall. " HAL. — I have often observed that the old proverb is correct — A rainbow in the morning...warning; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. Can you explain this omen ? " PHYS. — A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing,... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1829 - 436 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more r eady to fall. The old proverb is often correct: "A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight." I send you herewith the 13th number of this work, which will enable you to judge of its utility, [f... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 832 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct : A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning : A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - Agriculture - 1830 - 594 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct: — A rainbow in the morning, is the shepherd's...warning ; A rainbow at night, is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, retaining or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | William Rhind - National history - 1830 - 376 pages
...experience, which an attenc tion to the influence of the -winds, &c. will serve to explain. One is, 'A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning, a rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.' Now it is obvious, that, in a country with the ocean to the west, nine-tenths of the rain will come... | |
 | William Rhind - Natural history - 1830 - 262 pages
...experience, which an attenc tion to the influence of the winds, &c. will serve to explain. One is, fA rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning, a rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.' Now it is obvious, that, in a country with the ocean to the west, nine-tenths of the rain will come... | |
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Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate,... 
