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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... height as the primitive For transition . They contain petrifactions more various in their nature than those which occur in the transition form- ations , and consist of shells , fish , plants , & c . indicating that they were formed at a ...
... height as the primitive For transition . They contain petrifactions more various in their nature than those which occur in the transition form- ations , and consist of shells , fish , plants , & c . indicating that they were formed at a ...
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... height , which was propagated somewhat like a wave , from west to east : besides this , the ground had also a horizontal motion backwards and forwards , and in some mea- sure in a circular direction . This motion was accompanied by a ...
... height , which was propagated somewhat like a wave , from west to east : besides this , the ground had also a horizontal motion backwards and forwards , and in some mea- sure in a circular direction . This motion was accompanied by a ...
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... height ; and ashes were thrown out so copiously , that they were very thick at Taranto , 250 miles off ; some of them also were wet with salt water . A heavy noxious vapour , supposed to be carbonic acid , issued in many places from the ...
... height ; and ashes were thrown out so copiously , that they were very thick at Taranto , 250 miles off ; some of them also were wet with salt water . A heavy noxious vapour , supposed to be carbonic acid , issued in many places from the ...
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... height , from about the middle of Vesuvius ; another of the same kind soon afterwards broke out at some little distance lower down . From the terrific noise which accompanied this explosion , it appeared as if a covered channel full of ...
... height , from about the middle of Vesuvius ; another of the same kind soon afterwards broke out at some little distance lower down . From the terrific noise which accompanied this explosion , it appeared as if a covered channel full of ...
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... height of the mountain itself , which is 3,700 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 ...
... height of the mountain itself , which is 3,700 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 ...
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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.