The Wonders of Nature and Art: Comprising Upwards of Three Hundred of the Most Remarkable Curiosities and Phenomena in the Known World ; with an Appendix of Interesting Experiments, in Different Arts and Sciences, for the Instruction and Entertainment of Young PeopleJ. Chidley, 1838 - 568 páginas |
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... Italy . It is fixed in a large house , six stories high , and consists of 26,585 wheels , with 97,746 movements , all driven by one large water wheel fixed on the outside of the house . It goes round three times in one minute , and each ...
... Italy . It is fixed in a large house , six stories high , and consists of 26,585 wheels , with 97,746 movements , all driven by one large water wheel fixed on the outside of the house . It goes round three times in one minute , and each ...
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... Italy , and feeding on the grass and wild herbs they afford . This animal is about sixteen inches in length , and bears some resemblance both to the rat and the bear ; having a large flattish head , short ears , and a thick bushy tail ...
... Italy , and feeding on the grass and wild herbs they afford . This animal is about sixteen inches in length , and bears some resemblance both to the rat and the bear ; having a large flattish head , short ears , and a thick bushy tail ...
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... Italian peasantry , who reckon their flesh very delicate , and their fat medicinal . - SMITH'S Wonders . THE CAMELOPARD , oɛ GIRAFFE . THE animal of this species , which in September , 1827 , was landed at Waterloo - bridge , was sent ...
... Italian peasantry , who reckon their flesh very delicate , and their fat medicinal . - SMITH'S Wonders . THE CAMELOPARD , oɛ GIRAFFE . THE animal of this species , which in September , 1827 , was landed at Waterloo - bridge , was sent ...
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... Italy . They have their roots at the bottom of the Rhone ; the flowers of the female plant float on the surface of the water , and are furnished with an elastic spiral stalk , which extends or contracts as the water rises and falls ...
... Italy . They have their roots at the bottom of the Rhone ; the flowers of the female plant float on the surface of the water , and are furnished with an elastic spiral stalk , which extends or contracts as the water rises and falls ...
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... Italian miles from the city of Naples , and is justly ac- counted one of the most dreadful volcanos in the world . Its declivity towards the sea is richly clothed with vines and fruit - trees , the circumambient air is clear and salu ...
... Italian miles from the city of Naples , and is justly ac- counted one of the most dreadful volcanos in the world . Its declivity towards the sea is richly clothed with vines and fruit - trees , the circumambient air is clear and salu ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adorned ancient animal appearance arches ascend beautiful bees body bottom breadth bridge built called carried cavern centre chapel church colour columns Corinthian order covered curious descend diameter distance earth earthquake erected extremely fall feet high figure fire flame four gold grotto ground half head height HENRY JENKINS Henry VIII horses Inchcape Rock inches inhabitants island king lake lava length light London Bridge Magic Square magnificent manner marble middle miles motion Mount Etna MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain nature noise observed ornaments passage person piece pilasters pillars prodigious quantity remarkable resembling rises river river Thames rock roof ruins sand side silver Sir William Hamilton SMITH'S Wonders snow sometimes spiracles spring square stands stone Stonehenge subterraneous sulphur surface temple thick tion Tower travellers trees vapours vast vessel volcano wall whence whole wind yards
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Página 385 - On the deck the Rover takes his stand; So dark it is, they see no land. Quoth Sir Ralph, "It will be lighter soon, For there is the dawn of the rising moon.
Página 423 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 124 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Página 385 - Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. " They hear no sound ; the swell is strong ; Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along, Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock: " O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock!
Página 223 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons in their pleasant palaces: And her time is near to come, And her days shall not be prolonged.
Página 288 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here ; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven ! the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable...
Página 124 - He giveth snow like wool : he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels : who can stand before his cold ? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them : he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Página 419 - 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 385 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.
Página 124 - God thundereth marvellously with his voice ; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.