 | Pliny (the Younger.) - Lawyers - 1807 - 424 pages
...itself in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark. and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth...the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him. I rather chose to continue the employment in which I was engaged ; for, it happened, that he had given... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - 620 pages
...itself in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This uncommon appeanance excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He accordingly ordered... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pages
...itself in the manner I have mentioned : it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth...the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him. I rather chose to continue the employment in which I was engaged ; for it happened, that he had given... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...the top into a sort of branches ; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either •more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phaenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be got... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - Astronomy - 1815 - 568 pages
...own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
 | C. Gros - French language - 1818 - 492 pages
...ova weight, expanded in this manner; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either* more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited (my uncle's)" philosophical*4 curiosity (to take a nearer view of... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pages
...its own weight expanded in this manner: it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
 | Charles Room - Herculaneum (Extinct city) - 1828 - 108 pages
...its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. — Melawth's Translation of Pliny's Letters, Book VI. Let. 16. 3. " Fortune," cried'st tJiou, as he... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - Pompeii (Extinct city) - 1836 - 358 pages
...and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and gave me the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him.... | |
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I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner; it appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark... 
