| Robert Kemp Philp - 1855 - 926 pages
...force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable luiiliH n ;.>;;; with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight... | |
| Bombay Geographical Society - Geography - 1850 - 502 pages
...buildings with the earth — to raise tho waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash thfi strongest ships to pieces like toys. It warms and...in itself or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and thrown them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their... | |
| LIEUT N.F. MAURY, U.S.N. - 1851 - 344 pages
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, and stable buildings, with the Earth—to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains,...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds,... | |
| Science - 1854 - 410 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight... | |
| Geology - 1854 - 530 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the twilight... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the оселп into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges tike mountains, and chish the strongest ships to pieces like toys. It warms...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as ruin or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 304 pages
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains * Dr. Buist, of Bombay. them dissolved in itself, or suspended... | |
| Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth, to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...and the living creatures that inhabit it It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds,... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - Gulf Stream - 1855 - 302 pages
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth—to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains,...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains * Dr. Buist, of Bombay. them dissolved in itself, or suspended... | |
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