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Strona xxix
... Line , whither they are carried to replace those which the Sun is there every day evaporating : but they have ... lines in in our Climates , when you ascend to an elevation · EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES . xxix.
... Line , whither they are carried to replace those which the Sun is there every day evaporating : but they have ... lines in in our Climates , when you ascend to an elevation · EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES . xxix.
Strona xxx
... line of mercury at Paris , is equivalent to an elevation of ten fathoms and five feet , whereas in Sweden you have to ascend only teni fathom one foot and six inches to make the mercury sink one line . The Atmosphere of Sweden therefore ...
... line of mercury at Paris , is equivalent to an elevation of ten fathoms and five feet , whereas in Sweden you have to ascend only teni fathom one foot and six inches to make the mercury sink one line . The Atmosphere of Sweden therefore ...
Strona xxxiii
... line ? Of consequence , the 47 degrees , or divi- sions , of this interior curve , will be , each in particular , as they are when taken together , smaller than the 47 degrees of the arch of the containing circle . But as the degrees of ...
... line ? Of consequence , the 47 degrees , or divi- sions , of this interior curve , will be , each in particular , as they are when taken together , smaller than the 47 degrees of the arch of the containing circle . But as the degrees of ...
Strona xxxv
... line AKC . On the other hand , this polar arch cannot coincide with the spherical arch ABC , for it exceeds it by twelve leagues and two thirds . It must belong therefore to a curve which falls without the circumference of the Globe ...
... line AKC . On the other hand , this polar arch cannot coincide with the spherical arch ABC , for it exceeds it by twelve leagues and two thirds . It must belong therefore to a curve which falls without the circumference of the Globe ...
Strona xxxvi
... Line . But Geography demonstrates the direct contrary ; for it is around the Line that we find the greatest Seas , and a great quantity of Land barely up to the level ; and , on the contrary , elevated countries and lofty beds of water ...
... Line . But Geography demonstrates the direct contrary ; for it is around the Line that we find the greatest Seas , and a great quantity of Land barely up to the level ; and , on the contrary , elevated countries and lofty beds of water ...
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Africa alternate Currents America ancient animals appear ascribe Asia Atlantic Ocean Azores Beotia Cape Cape Horn cause Climate coasts colour Continents contrary corruption covered Currents degree Earth effects effusions elevation employed Equator Europe extend extremity eyes farther fire fishes flowers forests France frequently Globe greatest happiness harmonies heat Heaven Hemisphere History human Imaüs Indian Ocean inhabitants insects islands Isle James Rousseau land Latitude laws leagues likewise live manner means melting monsoon Moon mountains multitude Nations Nature Navigators never night North North Pole observed Peru plants polar Circle polar ices present produced proportion reason render respect rivers rocks round sand says shores snows South Pole species Strait Straits of Gibraltar subsist Summer tains thing thou Tides tion torrid Zone trees Tropics UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA vast vegetable virtue Voyage whole winds Winter World
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Strona 45 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Strona 161 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Strona 168 - When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, And said, "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Strona 168 - Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Strona 169 - Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days ; and caused the day-spring to know his place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? It is turned as clay to the seal ; and they stand as a garment.
Strona 169 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee ? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth ? declare if thou knowest it all.
Strona 169 - Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all. Where is the way where light dwelleth ? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof, that thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
Strona 124 - The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; Even the waters forgotten of the foot; They are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Strona 168 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Strona 161 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.