Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1T. Nelson, 1859 - 416 pages |
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... Plains - The Pampas , Silvas , Llanos , and Prairies of America - Flat Landscapes - Valleys- Moun- tain Passes -Glens and Gorges Earth - Chasms Grottoes and Caverns - Basaltic Colonnades , ......... 119 132 150 CHAPTER IX . LAND AND SEA ...
... Plains - The Pampas , Silvas , Llanos , and Prairies of America - Flat Landscapes - Valleys- Moun- tain Passes -Glens and Gorges Earth - Chasms Grottoes and Caverns - Basaltic Colonnades , ......... 119 132 150 CHAPTER IX . LAND AND SEA ...
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... plains ; but some are of such enormous extent as to fall simultaneously over many hundreds of miles . The drops of most showers vary in diameter from the twenty - fifth of an inch to a quarter of an inch , but are commonly large or ...
... plains ; but some are of such enormous extent as to fall simultaneously over many hundreds of miles . The drops of most showers vary in diameter from the twenty - fifth of an inch to a quarter of an inch , but are commonly large or ...
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... plains of Africa and South - western Asia , and bear the names of harmattan , sirocco , simoom , and samiel . The harmattan blows periodically from Central Africa to the Atlantic . It is accompanied by thick dry fogs , and by quantities ...
... plains of Africa and South - western Asia , and bear the names of harmattan , sirocco , simoom , and samiel . The harmattan blows periodically from Central Africa to the Atlantic . It is accompanied by thick dry fogs , and by quantities ...
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... plains to the middle air ; And hark to the crashing , long and loud , Of the chariot of God in the thunder - cloud : You may trace its path by the flashes that start From the rapid wheels where'er they dart , As the fire bolts leap to ...
... plains to the middle air ; And hark to the crashing , long and loud , Of the chariot of God in the thunder - cloud : You may trace its path by the flashes that start From the rapid wheels where'er they dart , As the fire bolts leap to ...
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... plain counterparts of the sun , but comprise halos , luminous arcs , and broad radiating beams , studded with imitation sun - discs , and either lustrous with golden light , or steeped in all the dyes of the rainbow . Multitudes have ...
... plain counterparts of the sun , but comprise halos , luminous arcs , and broad radiating beams , studded with imitation sun - discs , and either lustrous with golden light , or steeped in all the dyes of the rainbow . Multitudes have ...
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Page 227 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift 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...
Page 237 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Page 372 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 37 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon. Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 210 - Thy way is in the sea, And thy path in the great waters, And thy footsteps are not known.
Page 210 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 273 - All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Page 158 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Page 176 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! 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!
Page 27 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...