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Pàgina 27
... mile , and gave a better light than a torch that was carried by his servant . Sometimes it rose , and some- times ... miles from Birmingham , on the 12th December , 1776 , before daylight in the morning . A great many of these lights ...
... mile , and gave a better light than a torch that was carried by his servant . Sometimes it rose , and some- times ... miles from Birmingham , on the 12th December , 1776 , before daylight in the morning . A great many of these lights ...
Pàgina 39
... miles distant , others have fixed its place at a few hundred miles , and others again much lower . The diffused nature of the appear- ance in this country , renders it difficult to make any ac- curate observation on the subject ; but if ...
... miles distant , others have fixed its place at a few hundred miles , and others again much lower . The diffused nature of the appear- ance in this country , renders it difficult to make any ac- curate observation on the subject ; but if ...
Pàgina 42
... miles ; and that its aphelion distance , where it comes in contact with the earth's atmosphere , is about 95,000,000 of miles , or nearly the same with the mean distance of the earth from the sun . These views correspond with those of ...
... miles ; and that its aphelion distance , where it comes in contact with the earth's atmosphere , is about 95,000,000 of miles , or nearly the same with the mean distance of the earth from the sun . These views correspond with those of ...
Pàgina 43
... miles in diameter . Mrs. Somerville mentions one which passed within twenty - five miles of us , and was estimated to weigh about 600,000 tons , and to move with a velocity of about twenty miles in a sec- ond . This huge mass was ...
... miles in diameter . Mrs. Somerville mentions one which passed within twenty - five miles of us , and was estimated to weigh about 600,000 tons , and to move with a velocity of about twenty miles in a sec- ond . This huge mass was ...
Pàgina 64
... miles . Thus , by means of the camel , an Ara- bian finds safety in his deserts . All the armies on earth might be lost in pursuit of a flying squadron of this coun- try , mounted on their camels , and taking refuge in soli- tudes ...
... miles . Thus , by means of the camel , an Ara- bian finds safety in his deserts . All the armies on earth might be lost in pursuit of a flying squadron of this coun- try , mounted on their camels , and taking refuge in soli- tudes ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 179 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pàgina 252 - 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.
Pàgina 383 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Pàgina 87 - My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Pàgina 378 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pàgina 384 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Pàgina 235 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Pàgina 364 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Pàgina 366 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Pàgina 360 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.