The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Volume 281860 |
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... Animals , 585 Hob - Hole , Whitby , 393 Tail - piece , 594 The Needles , Isle of Wight , 394 Initial Letter , 595 Bay of Alexandria , . 397 Esquimaux Hut , 597 Coast of Asia Minor , from the Isle of Samos , 898 Classical Heads , 602 ...
... Animals , 585 Hob - Hole , Whitby , 393 Tail - piece , 594 The Needles , Isle of Wight , 394 Initial Letter , 595 Bay of Alexandria , . 397 Esquimaux Hut , 597 Coast of Asia Minor , from the Isle of Samos , 898 Classical Heads , 602 ...
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... Animals of the Needle Rocks , Isle of Wight , 656 Lias , 724 Initial Letter , 657 Jaw of the Phascolotherium , 726 Gneiss System , 658 Astarte elegans , 726 Mica - schist System , 659 Iguana cornuta , 729 Mount Taygetus , from the ...
... Animals of the Needle Rocks , Isle of Wight , 656 Lias , 724 Initial Letter , 657 Jaw of the Phascolotherium , 726 Gneiss System , 658 Astarte elegans , 726 Mica - schist System , 659 Iguana cornuta , 729 Mount Taygetus , from the ...
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... animals , and man - producing an effect which is unexpected , sublime , and even appalling . Equally startling and remarkable is the change upon the first re - appearance of the solar ray . It rushes out suddenly , and with brilliant ...
... animals , and man - producing an effect which is unexpected , sublime , and even appalling . Equally startling and remarkable is the change upon the first re - appearance of the solar ray . It rushes out suddenly , and with brilliant ...
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... animals , are accordant , and their subordinate diversities may in most cases be traced to the action of laws which universally produce the same effects where the circumstances are the same . But leaving the ball upon which we live ...
... animals , are accordant , and their subordinate diversities may in most cases be traced to the action of laws which universally produce the same effects where the circumstances are the same . But leaving the ball upon which we live ...
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... animals , and plants , to the circumstances of their dwelling - place . Supposing that constitution to remain the ... animal and vegetable existence . The tiger would cease to spring upon his prey from the sheer impossibility of doing it ...
... animals , and plants , to the circumstances of their dwelling - place . Supposing that constitution to remain the ... animal and vegetable existence . The tiger would cease to spring upon his prey from the sheer impossibility of doing it ...
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Alps America ancient animals appearance Asia astronomical Atlantic atmosphere beautiful bodies cause cave cavern climate clouds coast colour comet constellation continent depth diameter direction distance districts earth ecliptic elevation equator Europe exhibits extent fall feet Flamstead flow glaciers globe ground heat heavens height Herschel Himalaya Hipparchus Humboldt hundred hyæna Iceland immense inhabitants island Jupiter lake land latitude light limestone lunar magnitude mass miles moon motion mountains nature nearly night northern northern hemisphere observed occur ocean orbit Orinoco pass perihelion period phenomena plain planets present Ptolemy Pyrenees quadrupeds rain regions remarkable rise river rock sand Saturn seen shore side snow solar southern species spot springs square miles stars stratum stream summit supposed surface temperature terrestrial traveller trees tropical Uranus valley vapour vast vegetation Vesuvius visible volcanic whole wind winter zone
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Página 681 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Página 544 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 72 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 563 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 714 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 320 - 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.
Página 256 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Página 203 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God ! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God!
Página 684 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Página 5 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears— soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony...