The Gallery of Nature: Or Wonders of the Earth and the Heavens, Tom 2C. Wright, 1857 |
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Or Wonders of the Earth and the Heavens Thomas Milner. WONDERS OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS . CHAPTER XIII . MOUNTAIN CHASMS , OR PASSES . — THEIR MILITARY IMPORTANCE . GRAN- DEUR AND SUBLIMITY OF THEIR SCENERY . VALLEYS . SANDY DESERTS ...
Or Wonders of the Earth and the Heavens Thomas Milner. WONDERS OF THE EARTH AND THE HEAVENS . CHAPTER XIII . MOUNTAIN CHASMS , OR PASSES . — THEIR MILITARY IMPORTANCE . GRAN- DEUR AND SUBLIMITY OF THEIR SCENERY . VALLEYS . SANDY DESERTS ...
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... earth occurs upon a grand scale , there are points at which the traveller loses sight of the masses of mountains that environ it . He beholds stretching out on every side a tract of level land , or at least the diversity of hill and ...
... earth occurs upon a grand scale , there are points at which the traveller loses sight of the masses of mountains that environ it . He beholds stretching out on every side a tract of level land , or at least the diversity of hill and ...
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... earth vary as to their elevation above the sea from a few feet to between two and three miles , while some are actually depressed beneath it . To the more elevated plains , the terms plateau and table land are applied , which Humboldt ...
... earth vary as to their elevation above the sea from a few feet to between two and three miles , while some are actually depressed beneath it . To the more elevated plains , the terms plateau and table land are applied , which Humboldt ...
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... earth the mansions of the dead of past ages - occupy- ing sites which are now tenantless for leagues around them , and only visited occasionally by droves of cattle and the pass- ing traveller . Observing only a few specimens , they ...
... earth the mansions of the dead of past ages - occupy- ing sites which are now tenantless for leagues around them , and only visited occasionally by droves of cattle and the pass- ing traveller . Observing only a few specimens , they ...
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Or Wonders of the Earth and the Heavens Thomas Milner. the two regions . The reproach is of old standing against Africa of being the most barren and unproductive of the great divisions of the earth a reproach which especially applies to ...
Or Wonders of the Earth and the Heavens Thomas Milner. the two regions . The reproach is of old standing against Africa of being the most barren and unproductive of the great divisions of the earth a reproach which especially applies to ...
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Strona 697 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Strona 665 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Strona 547 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Strona 503 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Strona 803 - Let all the earth fear the Lord : let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Strona 501 - THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from His hollow hand, And hung His bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that loud voice, which seemed to him Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters ; and had bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His centuries in the eternal rocks.
Strona 563 - They slept on the abyss, without a surge; The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave; The moon, their mistress, had expired before ; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perished: Darkness had no need Of aid from them — she was the universe.
Strona 525 - As ancient, but rebuilt by him who twice Judah and all thy father David's house Led captive, and Jerusalem laid waste, Till Cyrus set them free ; Persepolis His city there thou seest, and Bactra there; Ecbatana her structure vast there shows, And Hecatompylos her hundred gates : There Susa by Choaspes...
Strona 501 - Oh ! what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar? And yet...
Strona 636 - Sweet Hour of Twilight!— in the solitude Of the pine forest, and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood, Rooted where once the Adrian wave flowed o'er, To where the last Caesarean fortress stood, Evergreen forest!