Introduction to MeteorologyW. Blackwood and sons, 1849 - 487 Seiten |
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... feet and a light to our ways . Whom God made after His own image , he will not retain in perpetual darkness . What man's reason has made known , man will be permitted to see and understand . He that bindeth the sweet influences of ...
... feet and a light to our ways . Whom God made after His own image , he will not retain in perpetual darkness . What man's reason has made known , man will be permitted to see and understand . He that bindeth the sweet influences of ...
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... feet above the sea , gave the following ratio of oxygen , -1.0000 , 1.0143 , and 1.0195 respectively . The younger Saussure has analysed air from the summit of Mont Blanc and Geneva ; De Marti , in Spain ; Berthollet , in France and ...
... feet above the sea , gave the following ratio of oxygen , -1.0000 , 1.0143 , and 1.0195 respectively . The younger Saussure has analysed air from the summit of Mont Blanc and Geneva ; De Marti , in Spain ; Berthollet , in France and ...
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... feet , from a base 80 yards in circumference , and form a surface of about 900 square feet . From their small craters air - bubbles , consisting of almost pure nitrogen , are constantly escaping , in number equal to 5 in 2 minutes , and ...
... feet , from a base 80 yards in circumference , and form a surface of about 900 square feet . From their small craters air - bubbles , consisting of almost pure nitrogen , are constantly escaping , in number equal to 5 in 2 minutes , and ...
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... feet of the bottom . Here we did not experience any difficulty in breath- ing , but an offensive nauseous smell annoyed us . We now fastened a dog to the end of a bamboo 18 feet long , and sent him in ; we had our watches in our hands ...
... feet of the bottom . Here we did not experience any difficulty in breath- ing , but an offensive nauseous smell annoyed us . We now fastened a dog to the end of a bamboo 18 feet long , and sent him in ; we had our watches in our hands ...
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... feet , water boils at 190 ° F. On the summit of Ben - Nevis , elevated 4358 feet , it boils at 203.8 ° F. , the temperature being 30 ° on the mountain , and 35 ° on the plain . A curious anecdote , shewing the effect of lofty elevation ...
... feet , water boils at 190 ° F. On the summit of Ben - Nevis , elevated 4358 feet , it boils at 203.8 ° F. , the temperature being 30 ° on the mountain , and 35 ° on the plain . A curious anecdote , shewing the effect of lofty elevation ...
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Seite 90 - How beautiful is night ! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven : In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Seite 227 - It is not noon— the Sunbow's rays still arch The torrent with the many hues of heaven, And roll the sheeted silver's waving column O'er the crag's headlong perpendicular, And fling its lines of foaming light along, And to and fro, like the pale courser's tail, The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death, As told in the Apocalypse.
Seite 173 - Ye ice-falls ! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain— Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty Voice, And stopp'd at once amid their maddest plunge ! Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows ? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet ?— God...
Seite 220 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or, mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem. As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span • Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Seite 173 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Seite 108 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when, with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air...
Seite 108 - I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Seite 220 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Seite 390 - Because my nature was averse from life; And yet not cruel; for I would not make, But find a desolation. Like the wind, The red-hot breath of the most lone Simoom, Which dwells but in the desert and sweeps o'er The barren sands which bear no shrubs to blast, And revels o'er their wild and arid waves, And seeketh not, so that it is not sought, But being met is deadly, — such hath been The course of my existence; but there came Things in my path which are no more.
Seite 173 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!