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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications Constable and co, ltd Повний перегляд - 1831 |
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Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications Constable and co, ltd Повний перегляд - 1829 |
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Сторінка 261 - ... column, now darkened with dust and greatly increased in volume, and distorted by sudden gusts and whirlwinds. The latter were most frequent on the lee side, where they often made imperfect water-spouts of curious shapes. On one occasion some of the steam reached the boat ; it smelt a little of sulphur, and the mud it left became a gritty, sparkling, dark brown powder when dry. None of the stones or cinders thrown out appeared more than half a foot in diameter, and most of them much smaller.
Сторінка 30 - They are the men of the mountains ; and if there is love of country upon earth, you will find it where there is only a mountain. pine, a mountain goat, and a mountaineer, as fast rooted and as firm footed on the rock as either.
Сторінка 27 - A genuine decided character,—one which will enable a man to carry all his plans into effect with success, and to ride buoyant upon every wave of the sea of trouble, is perhaps not to be attained, at least early in life, without a certain degree of stubbornness ; and as that stubbornness produces a sort of contempt for advice and new information, even in the cases in which the obtaining of these is the most desirable, there is some danger of failure and reverse, after success has lulled caution,...
Сторінка 308 - ... largest when they are most numerous. Hence the acorns of the oak having the inferior timber, are the most profitable for the gatherer both to gather and to sell; and those two circumstances are quite sufficient to bring them to the market in preference to, and even exclusive of the other, — more especially as the purchaser is to grow seedlings and not oak timber. The question of the timber is, indeed, a question seventy years hence with those who deal in acorns and seedling oaks, and as they...
Сторінка 50 - ... the garden and the field, in order that we may breathe health, and at the same time cull pleasure and instruction there ? Wherefore sings the breeze in the forest, why whispers the zephyr among the reeds, and how comes it that the caves and hollows of the barren mountains give out their tones, as if the...
Сторінка 307 - Imported oak has been blamed for this decay, and it is true that the imported oak, and more especially the oak imported from America, is inferior to the oak which once grew in the forests of England. But the deterioration is not confined to the imported oak ; and however bad that may be, it could not inoculate the oaks of the forest with its deleterious qualities, any more than the species of insect called American blight, which infests...
Сторінка 138 - Moonlight is not the only instance that we have of cold light; for the first beginnings of flame, in substances that are easily kindled, and also the last glimmers of smouldering fires, are cold and blue as compared with the light of vigorous combustion. That may be seen in the lighting of a common match, the flame of the easily...
Сторінка 31 - Ben-Nevis, and Wharnside shall respond to gray Cairngorm, '' We have known our people for a thousand years, and each year of the thousand they have loved us the more. Our summits are bleak, but they point to heaven; they are hoary with eld, but the hope of immortality breathes around them.
Сторінка 317 - ... foot. Those who are familiar with pine forests, or pine plantations, must be aware that the seeds of the cones never germinate under the thick shade of the trees, and grow up so as to form an underwood in the forest. Cones in abundance are produced every season, but they contribute chiefly. to the food of the animal inhabitants, and it is only where a blank occurs, from the decay or the casual destruction of a tree, that young- plants rise to fill it up. There are, indeed, few or no trees of...
Сторінка 184 - ... brought on the wings of the wind, mounts up through the viewless air ; and the more vigorously that the countless thousands of active powers, natural or artificial, are working, the more abundantly does the air supply them with nature's most abundant, most refreshing, and most valuable production. If you would know the real value of water, ask a man when he is stretched on his couch in the heat of a fever, and...