 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 688 pages
...same time the next day, when the heat of the sun again sets the snows a running that fall into the same little conduits, traces, and canals, and by consequence...and discover themselves always in the same place. At' the very extremity of the lake the Rhone enters, and, when I saw it, brought along with it a prodigious... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...this kind by the Larian lake — the modern Lake of Como : — "I have brought you," he remarked, " as a present, out of the country, a query which well...extensive knowledge. There is a spring which rises in a neighbouring mountain, and, running among the rocks, is received into a little banqueting room, from... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 546 pages
...same time the next day, when the heat of the sun again sets the snows a running that fall into the same little conduits, traces, and canals, and by consequence...and discover themselves always in the same place. At the very extremity of the lake the Rhone enters, and, when I saw it, brought along with it a prodigious... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger) - 1878 - 466 pages
...herself may follow the precedent. Farewell. LETTEE XXX. To LICINIUS SUKA. I have brought you as a little present out of the country a query which well deserves...extensive knowledge. There is a spring which rises in a neighbouring mountain, and running among the rocks is received into a little banqueting-room, artificially... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1905 - 502 pages
...herself may follow the precedent. Farewell. LETTER XXX. To LICINIUS SUBA. I have brought you as a little present out of the country a query which well deserves...extensive knowledge. There is a spring which rises in a neighbouring mountain, and running among the rooks is received into a little banqueting-room, artificially... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...herself may follow the precedent. Farewell. XLVIII To LICINIUS SURA I HAVE brought you as a little present out of the country a query which well deserves...extensive knowledge. There is a spring which rises in a neighbouring mountain, and running among the rocks is received into a little banqueting-room, artificially... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 532 pages
...herself may follow the precedent. Farewell. XLVIII To LICINIUS SURA I HAVE brought you as a little present out of the country a query which well deserves...extensive knowledge. There is a spring which rises in a neighbouring mountain, and running among the rocks is received into a little banqueting-room, artificially... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Friendship - 1909 - 450 pages
...herself may follow the precedent. Farewell. XLVIII To LICINIUS SURA I HAVE brought you as a little present out of the country a query which well deserves...extensive knowledge. There is a spring which rises in a neighbouring mountain, and running among the rocks is received into a little banqueting-room, artificially... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Medals, Ancient - 1914 - 518 pages
...same time the next day, when the heat of the Sun again sets the snows a running that fall into the same little conduits, traces, and canals, and by consequence...and discover themselves always in the same place. At the very extremity of the Lake the Rhone enters, and, when I saw it, brought along with it a prodigious... | |
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... naturally begin to flow on such hours of the day as the snow begins to melt ; but as soon as the sun leaves it again to freeze and harden, the fountain dries up, and receives no more supplies till about the same time the next day, when the heat of... 
