... up the sea as a wall on the right, or to the south, of fifty feet high; still the difficulty would remain of building the wall on the left hand, or to the north. Besides, water standing in that position for a day must have lost the nature of fluid.... Travels to discover the source of the Nile - Pàgina 136per James Bruce - 1804Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D.D., LL.D. - 1850
...position for a day, must have lost the nature of fluid. Whence came that cohesion of particles which hindered that wall to escape at the sides ? This is...a time before and since from the same causes. Yet Dlodorus Siculus, lib. iii. p. 122, says : The Troglodytes, the indigenous inhabitants of that very... | |
| James Bruce - 1805 - 528 pàgines
...Secondly, Whether the Etesian winds, which blow strongly all summer from the north west, could not blow SQ violently against the sea, as to keep it back on a...to M. Niebuhr were written by the learned Professor Michaelis of Gottingen. There is a copy of such queries different from these given to Niebuhr among... | |
| Elijah Parish - 1813 - 558 pàgines
...position for a day, must have lost the nature of a fluid. Whence came that cohesion of particles, which hindered that wall to escape at the sides? This is...miracle as that of Moses. If the Etesian winds had done / that once, they must have repeated it many a time before and since, from the same cause. "Yet," saith... | |
| Elijah Parish - 1813 - 538 pàgines
...escape at the sides? This is as great a miracle as that of Moses. If the Etesian winds had done that once, they must have repeated it many a time before and since, from the same cause. "Yet," saith he, referring to the passage whiqh we have quoted in this article, "Diodorus says,... | |
| 1823 - 908 pàgines
...still the difficulty would remain of building the wall to the left, or to the north. If the Eterian winds had done this once, they must have repeated it many a time before or since, from the same causes.' The wind which actually did blow, according to the history, either... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 pàgines
...position for a day, must have lost the nature of fluid. Whence came that cohesion of particles which hindered that wall to escape at the sides ? This is...repeated it many a time before and since, from the samo causes. Yet Diodorus Siculus (lib. 3. p. 122.) says, the Troglodytes, the indigenous inhabitants... | |
| 1826 - 638 pàgines
...children of Israel their demands, If the Etesian wind blowing from the north-west in summer rotild heap up the sea as a wall, on the right, or to the...time before and since, from the same causes. Yet, Diodorus Siculus says,, the Troglodytes, the indigenous inhahitants of that very spot, had a tradition... | |
| Andrew Thomson (of Bristol) - 1826 - 394 pàgines
...the wall on the left hand, or to the north. Besides, water standing in that position for a day, mnst have lost the nature of fluid. Whence came that cohesion...repeated it many a time before and since from the same cause. Yet Diodorus Siculus says the Troglodytes, the indigenous inhahitants of that very spot, had... | |
| William Hales - 1830 - 510 pàgines
...position for a day must have lost the nature of fluid. Whence came that cohesion of particles which hindered that wall to escape at the sides ? This is...a time before and since, from the same causes. Yet Diodorus Siculus, Lib. III. p. 122, says, The Troglodytes, the indigenous inhabitants of that very... | |
| Richard Watson - 1831 - 458 pàgines
...fifty feet high, still the difficulty would remain of building the wall to the left, or to the north. 6 Ь e7 q r* yu7 z ?λ ʼn} ? ,t many a time before or since, from the same causes." The wind which actually did blow, according... | |
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