| Bombay Geographical Society - Geography - 1850 - 502 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and thrown them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their... | |
| University magazine - 1855 - 784 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in...disperses and refracts their various tints to beautify tht> approach and the retreat of the orb of day. But for the atmosphere, sunshine would burst on us... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 804 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as ruin or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight... | |
| François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - Bible - 1860 - 168 pages
...summer. " It is the atmosphere," says Captain Maury, " which draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in...of evening and of dawn ; it disperses and refracts the various tints to beautify the approach and the retreat of the orb of day. But for the atmosphere,... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1860 - 542 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns...throws them down again, as rain or dew, when they arer equired. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the aurora of the morning and... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in...and throws them down again as rain or dew when they arc required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight of evening and... | |
| David Page - Physical geography - 1864 - 374 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns...the rays of the sun from their path to give us the aurora of the morning and twilight of evening ; it disperses and refracts their various tints to beautify... | |
| Eli Bowen - Coal - 1865 - 512 pages
...and land, and again throws them down in rain or dew. It bends the rays of the sun from their paths, to give us the twilight of evening and of dawn ; it...approach and the retreat of the orb of day. But for it, sunshine would burst on us and fail us at once, and at once remove ug from midnight darkness to... | |
| Raphael Semmes - Confederate States of America - 1869 - 866 pages
...turns, the earth, and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in...their various tints, to beautify the approach and the reti eat of the orb of day. But for the atmosphere, sunshine would burst on us, and fail us at once,... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - Marine meteorology - 1871 - 540 pages
...turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself or suspended in cisterns...throws them down again, as rain or dew, when they arer equired. It bends the rays of the sun from their path to give us the aurora of the morning and... | |
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