... unattended with any scoriae on its surface, or gross materials of an insolvent nature, but flowing with the translucency of honey, in regular channels cut finer than art can imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun. Pompeii - Pàgina 25per William Clarke (architect.) - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1825 - 712 pàgines
...with any other matter that was not in a state of complete solution, unattended with any scoriae upon its surface, or gross materials of an insolvent nature,...with so much violence, that we proceeded to make our e.vperi'neats and observations A little above the source of the lava, I found a chimney of about four... | |
| William Otter - 1827 - 544 pàgines
...scoriae upon its surface, or gross materials of an insolvent nature, but flowing witli the transluceucy of honey, in regular channels cut finer than art can...from the crater increased with so much violence, that VH- proceedt-d to make our experiments and observations as speedily as possible. A little above the... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 472 pàgines
...with any scoriae on its surface, or any gross materials not in a state of complete solution. It flowed with the translucency of honey, " in regular channels,...imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun." " Sir William Hamilton," he continues, " had conceived that no stones thrown upon a current of lava... | |
| William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 392 pàgines
...velocity that would have crushed any of us, had we been in their way. I found we must either leave our present spot, or expect instant death ; therefore...with so much violence, that we proceeded to make our expeVOL. i. - i» riments and observations as speedily as possible. A little above the source of the... | |
| 1838 - 274 pàgines
...with any other matter that was not in a state of complete solution, unattended by any scorite upon its surface, or gross materials of an insolvent nature,...with the translucency of honey, in regular channels, cat finer than art can imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun. The eruption from the... | |
| 1838 - 544 pàgines
...unconnected with any other matter that was not in a state of complete solution, unattended by any scoria upon its surface, or gross materials of an insolvent nature, but flowing •with the trauslucency of honey, in regular channels, cot finer than art can imitate, and glowing with all the... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1842 - 512 pàgines
...with any scoria on its surface, or any gross materials not in a state of complete solution. It flowed with the translucency of honey, " in regular channels, cut finer than art canimitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun." — " Sir William Hamilton," he continues,... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1854 - 472 pàgines
...with any scoriae on its surface, or any gross material not in a state of complete solution. It flowed with the translucency of honey, in regular channels...imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun." Lyell's Geology, Vol. ip 316, Edit. Phil. 1837. Perhaps there can be conceived no more sublime representation... | |
| Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 pàgines
...with any scoriae on its surface, or any gross materials not in a state of complete solution. It flowed with the translucency of honey, " in regular channels,...finer than art can imitate, and glowing with all the splendor of the sun." — " Sir William Hamilton," he continues, " had conceived that no stones thrown... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1859 - 396 pàgines
...totally unconnected with any other matter that was not in a state of complete solution, unattended by any scoriae on its surface, or gross materials of...imitate, and glowing with all the splendour of the sun." In the July of the same year our traveller viewed Vesuvius under another aspect, when soft, tranquil... | |
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