Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, Band 1G. et W.B. Whittaker, 1821 |
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... feet , forming first a little mountain of pumice stones within the crater , which by degrees became visible above its margin . The smoke , which was continually emitted , was rendered luminous at night , by the light derived from the ...
... feet , forming first a little mountain of pumice stones within the crater , which by degrees became visible above its margin . The smoke , which was continually emitted , was rendered luminous at night , by the light derived from the ...
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... feet only from us ; we therefore hurried away to a place of safety , expecting a repetition of the same phenomenon , but we only observed jets of smoke here and there in the wood . Whilst observing Vesuvius on the 24th of De- cember , I ...
... feet only from us ; we therefore hurried away to a place of safety , expecting a repetition of the same phenomenon , but we only observed jets of smoke here and there in the wood . Whilst observing Vesuvius on the 24th of De- cember , I ...
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... feet above the level of the sea . Occasional clouds of the darkest smoke broke through this vast column of fire , and which , at length , collecting in one vast body , was car ried by the wind to the farther side of the mountain ...
... feet above the level of the sea . Occasional clouds of the darkest smoke broke through this vast column of fire , and which , at length , collecting in one vast body , was car ried by the wind to the farther side of the mountain ...
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... feet in breadth ; its height above the sea was twelve feet , and it extended into the sea 626 feet . The sea , for some days , was boiling like a cauldron round the foot of this newly - formed promontory , and even at a hundred yards ...
... feet in breadth ; its height above the sea was twelve feet , and it extended into the sea 626 feet . The sea , for some days , was boiling like a cauldron round the foot of this newly - formed promontory , and even at a hundred yards ...
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... feet high , and in the highest perfection , a crescent of silver , about five inches in diameter , a silver amulet or charm , representing Hippo- crates , and a golden fibulæ or broach , about an inch in dia- meter . The most curious ...
... feet high , and in the highest perfection , a crescent of silver , about five inches in diameter , a silver amulet or charm , representing Hippo- crates , and a golden fibulæ or broach , about an inch in dia- meter . The most curious ...
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Seite 168 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Seite 159 - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures...
Seite 172 - ... sight betwixt each wide extreme, the mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; of smell, the headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, to that which warbles through the vernal wood...
Seite 172 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood!
Seite 145 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Seite 190 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise : So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Seite 259 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Seite 173 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.
Seite 41 - ... the preceding January or February a volcano had burst out within the sea near St. Michael's, we immediately concluded that the smoke we saw proceeded from that cause, and, on our anchoring the next morning in the road of Ponta del Gada, we found this conjecture correct as to the cause, but not to the time ; the eruption of January having totally subsided, and the present one having only burst forth two days prior to our approach, and about three miles distant from the one before alluded to.
Seite 27 - ... and of longer continuance than that heard within the tropics in time of storms. This noise preceded a perpendicular motion of three or four seconds, followed by an undulatory movement somewhat longer. The shocks were in opposite directions, from north to south, and from east to west.