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This depth of equilibrium varies in different soils ; but seldom exceeds thirty or fifty feet . If the excavation be made about the commencement of winter , the temperature will appear to increase in the lower strata ; but , on ...
This depth of equilibrium varies in different soils ; but seldom exceeds thirty or fifty feet . If the excavation be made about the commencement of winter , the temperature will appear to increase in the lower strata ; but , on ...
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... from the supposed internal ħeat of the globe , caused by the action of central fires ; and pretend , in support of their favourite hypothesis , that the temperature always increases near the bottom of very deep mines .
... from the supposed internal ħeat of the globe , caused by the action of central fires ; and pretend , in support of their favourite hypothesis , that the temperature always increases near the bottom of very deep mines .
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The increasing coldness of water , drawn up from the depth of only a few fathoms , may , therefore , indicate to the navigator who traverses the wide ocean his approach to banks or land . These principles , however , will not apply to ...
The increasing coldness of water , drawn up from the depth of only a few fathoms , may , therefore , indicate to the navigator who traverses the wide ocean his approach to banks or land . These principles , however , will not apply to ...
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As the sun acquires elevation , his power is greatly increased . The snow gradually wastes away - the ice dissolves apace - and vast fragments of it , detached from the cliffs , and undermined beneath , precipitate themselves on the ...
As the sun acquires elevation , his power is greatly increased . The snow gradually wastes away - the ice dissolves apace - and vast fragments of it , detached from the cliffs , and undermined beneath , precipitate themselves on the ...
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The frost now maintains ascendency , and shoots its increasing energy in all directions , till it has covered the whole extent of those seas with a solid vault to the depth of several feet . But , on the return of spring ...
The frost now maintains ascendency , and shoots its increasing energy in all directions , till it has covered the whole extent of those seas with a solid vault to the depth of several feet . But , on the return of spring ...
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Página 116 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 101 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Página 115 - 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 107 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald; — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Página 107 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Página 192 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 115 - The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him...
Página 114 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Página 116 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Página 109 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.