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" ... to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships to pieces like toys. " It warms and cools by turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them... "
Elements of Physical and Political Geography: Designed as a Text Book for ... - Page 143
by Cornelius Sowle Cartée - 1861 - 342 pages
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Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 9

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...
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The Dublin university magazine

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...
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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45

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...
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Lessons for the young on the six days of Creation

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,...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea, and Its Meteorology

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...
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The advanced reader

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...
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Advanced Text-book of Physical Geography

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...
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Coal Or Coal Oil: Or, The Geology of the Earth. Being a Popular Description ...

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...
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Memoirs of Service Afloat: During the War Between the States

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,...
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The Physical Geography of the Sea ...

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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