 Softer than the finest down — more impalpable than the finest gossamer, — it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the lightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world,...  Advanced Text-book of Physical Geography - Page 135by David Page - 1864 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 936 pages
...fifteen pounds on every square inch of surface of our bodies, or from seventy to one hundred tons on us all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. Softer...leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the slightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings... | |
 | Bombay Geographical Society - Geography - 1850 - 502 pages
..." We have already said that the atmosphere forms a spherical shell surrounding the earth to a depth which is unknown to us by reason of its growing tenuity,...it supplies : yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes tho most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
 | LIEUT N.F. MAURY, U.S.N. - 1851 - 344 pages
...We have already said that the atmosphere forms a spherical shell, surrounding the Earth to a depth which is unknown to us, by reason of its growing tenuity,...it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
 | Science - 1854 - 410 pages
...fifteen pounds on every square inch of surface of our bodies, or from seventy to one hundred tons on us all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. Softer...leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the slightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on "its wings... | |
 | Geology - 1854 - 530 pages
...fifteen pounds on every square inch of surface of our bodies, or from seventy to one hundred tons on us all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. Softer...leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs the slightest flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 312 pages
...to one hundred tons on us in all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. Softer than the softest down — more impalpable than the finest gossamer...it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...to one hundred tons on us in all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight. Softer than the softest down — more impalpable than the finest gossamer...it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and cfushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - Ocean - 1855 - 304 pages
...much as feel its weight. Softer than the softest down—more impalpable than the finest gossamer—it leaves the cobweb undisturbed, and scarcely stirs...it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
 | University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...than the finest gossamer — it leave» the cobweb undisturbed, und scarcely stirs the lightest Hower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1860 - 542 pages
...tenuity, as it is released from the pressure of its own superincumbent mass. Its upper surface can not be nearer to us than fifty, and can scarcely be more...it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion,... | |
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