The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various Objects of Nature Throughout the Year; with Poetical Illus., and Moral Reflections on Each Subject, Том 1Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1817 |
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... sometimes overwhelmed ; nor to his exquisite episode of a man perishing in the snow . But in this last there is a circumstance described , so truly original , so natural and pathetic , that I cannot forbear to quote it . In vain for him ...
... sometimes overwhelmed ; nor to his exquisite episode of a man perishing in the snow . But in this last there is a circumstance described , so truly original , so natural and pathetic , that I cannot forbear to quote it . In vain for him ...
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... sometimes hap- pens , that a sudden shower of rain falls during a frost , and immediately turns to ice . Philips , in his Epistle from Copenhagen , has given a beautiful description of such a scene : a description which forms as fine a ...
... sometimes hap- pens , that a sudden shower of rain falls during a frost , and immediately turns to ice . Philips , in his Epistle from Copenhagen , has given a beautiful description of such a scene : a description which forms as fine a ...
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... sometimes continuing in that state for se- veral hours , without any apparent motion ; after which they break out into streams of stronger light , spreading into columns , and altering slowly into ten thousand different shapes , varying ...
... sometimes continuing in that state for se- veral hours , without any apparent motion ; after which they break out into streams of stronger light , spreading into columns , and altering slowly into ten thousand different shapes , varying ...
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... Sometimes they rise , as if to the zenith of the spectator , and then de- scend again towards the south : and a great number of causes may carry the vapours towards the different points of the heavens , whence origi nate the different ...
... Sometimes they rise , as if to the zenith of the spectator , and then de- scend again towards the south : and a great number of causes may carry the vapours towards the different points of the heavens , whence origi nate the different ...
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... sometimes two hundred leagues long , and sixty or eighty broad , move slowly and majestically . They often fix , for a time , immoveable by the power of the ocean , and then produce , near the horizon , that bright white appearance ...
... sometimes two hundred leagues long , and sixty or eighty broad , move slowly and majestically . They often fix , for a time , immoveable by the power of the ocean , and then produce , near the horizon , that bright white appearance ...
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