Universal Science Or the Cabinet of Nature and Art, Comprising Above One Thousand Entertaining and Instructive Facts and Experiments, 1. köideG. et W.B. Whittaker, 1821 |
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... moved very slowly , and many of the wells in the town became partially , and some quite dry . About eight days before the grand eruption , a man and some boys being in a vineyard above Torre del Greco , and precisely on the spot where ...
... moved very slowly , and many of the wells in the town became partially , and some quite dry . About eight days before the grand eruption , a man and some boys being in a vineyard above Torre del Greco , and precisely on the spot where ...
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... moving burselves forward by our hands , we at length reached that part of it where it gradually widened itself and formed the summit of the cliff , which we found to have a perfectly flat surface , of the dimensions before stated ...
... moving burselves forward by our hands , we at length reached that part of it where it gradually widened itself and formed the summit of the cliff , which we found to have a perfectly flat surface , of the dimensions before stated ...
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... move under these from the windward , and when the whole have gathered the rain falls copiously . If it be a continued gentle shower , the strata of clouds will spread in a horizontal diffusion , and then separate till the whole are ...
... move under these from the windward , and when the whole have gathered the rain falls copiously . If it be a continued gentle shower , the strata of clouds will spread in a horizontal diffusion , and then separate till the whole are ...
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... the atmosphere ; from many places they may be seen moving in the vallies , and often in the vallies they may be seen creeping along the sides of the moun- OF SNOW AND HAIL . 58. Snow consists of those tains . General Principles . 87 56.
... the atmosphere ; from many places they may be seen moving in the vallies , and often in the vallies they may be seen creeping along the sides of the moun- OF SNOW AND HAIL . 58. Snow consists of those tains . General Principles . 87 56.
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... quarter from whence it proceeded , and discovered a large black body in the air moving apparently towards them , but passing with incon- ceivable velocity , buried itself in the earth , about 98 Meteorological Phenomena .
... quarter from whence it proceeded , and discovered a large black body in the air moving apparently towards them , but passing with incon- ceivable velocity , buried itself in the earth , about 98 Meteorological Phenomena .
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.