Studies of Nature, Tom 1J. Mawman, 1809 |
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Strona vii
... wind , which occasions this serenity of the air , checks the warming in- fluence of the Moon ; but if the wind is stilled ever so little , you see the Heavens covered with vapours which exhale from the Earth , and you feel the ...
... wind , which occasions this serenity of the air , checks the warming in- fluence of the Moon ; but if the wind is stilled ever so little , you see the Heavens covered with vapours which exhale from the Earth , and you feel the ...
Strona xxv
... winds on the shores of the Island , and of water , pumped up by the Sun from the bosom of the Sea , are wafted toward the summits of the mountains , which arrest them by their fossil and hydraulic attractions . In the fore - ground of ...
... winds on the shores of the Island , and of water , pumped up by the Sun from the bosom of the Sea , are wafted toward the summits of the mountains , which arrest them by their fossil and hydraulic attractions . In the fore - ground of ...
Strona xlii
... Winds , pages 386 and 387 . " Besides , it is certain that , universally , Currents " change their courses at certain seasons of the year : in " the East - Indies , they run from East to West one part of " the year , and from West to ...
... Winds , pages 386 and 387 . " Besides , it is certain that , universally , Currents " change their courses at certain seasons of the year : in " the East - Indies , they run from East to West one part of " the year , and from West to ...
Strona xliii
... wind from South to North except toward full " Moon . " To the East of the Cape of Good - Hope , from the " thirtieth ... winds , which he calls Monsoons . But this is not the proper place for investigating the cause of the atmospheric ...
... wind from South to North except toward full " Moon . " To the East of the Cape of Good - Hope , from the " thirtieth ... winds , which he calls Monsoons . But this is not the proper place for investigating the cause of the atmospheric ...
Strona xliv
... Winds and the Cur- rents steadily set in from the West ,, which drive the ship . ping on the coast : hence we see that this Current , which comes from the West , in doubling the Cape , arrives there in the month of April . From the ...
... Winds and the Cur- rents steadily set in from the West ,, which drive the ship . ping on the coast : hence we see that this Current , which comes from the West , in doubling the Cape , arrives there in the month of April . From the ...
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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.