 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 600 pàgines
...crawling of a fly on the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate 'i Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 596 pàgines
...crawling of a fly on the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. (Jan any thing be more strange to contemplate : Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied... | |
 | 1826 - 1138 pàgines
...weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied any thing more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and to gratify the... | |
 | 1827 - 640 pàgines
...crawling of a fly upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere; and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contempl»te ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pàgines
...crawling of a fly upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied any... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1828 - 248 pàgines
...crawling of a fly upon the window. Yet we find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse...more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy-tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and... | |
 | 1828 - 496 pàgines
...upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of ihe atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills...contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy 'tales that ever were fancied, anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and to gratify the... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pàgines
...that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that n sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power....more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy-tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and... | |
 | 1829 - 522 pàgines
...crawling of a fly upon the window. Yet we find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy-tales that ever were fancied any... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - 910 pàgines
...crawling of a fly upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, — and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied any... | |
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Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and to gratify the mind, than this most unexpected resemblance between things so unlike to the eyes of ordinary beholders ? What more... 
