... numberless series of pilasters, arches, castles, well delineated, regular columns, lofty towers, superb palaces, with balconies and windows, extended alleys of trees, delightful plains, with herds and flocks, armies of men on foot... Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 561844Full view - About this book
| 1799 - 614 pages
...flocks, armies of men on foot and horseback, and many other strange images in their natural colours and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...period of time while the abovementioned causes remain." The philosophy of this striking appearance is still in a very imperfect state. That the atmosphere... | |
| Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...horseback, and many other strange images in their natural colours and proper actions, passing ra-p'ully in succession along the surface of the sea, during...period of time while the abovementioned causes remain." The philosophy of this striking appearance is still in a very imperfect state. That the atmosphere... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...other strange images, in their natural colours and proper actions, passing rapidly in sue. cession along the surface of the sea, during the whole of...period of time while the above-mentioned causes remain. '• But if, in addition to the circumstances before described, the atmosphere be highly impregnated... | |
| Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...flocks,, armies of men on foot, on horseback, and many other strange images, ia their natural colours, and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...the accurate observations of the coast and town of Keggio, by P. Minasi, to be derived from objects on shore." P. "Minasi describes three different spectacles... | |
| Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 592 pages
...flocks, armies of men on foot and horseback, and many other strange images, in their natural colours and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...period of time while the above-mentioned causes remain. " But if, in addition to the circumstances before described, the atmosphere be highly impregnated with... | |
| Science - 1826 - 628 pages
...flocks, armies of men on foot and horseback, and many other strange images, in their natural colours and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...of the sea, during the whole of the short period of lime while the abovementioned causes remain. " But if, in addition lo the circumstances before described,... | |
| 1828 - 508 pages
...the church of Ballintoy, and just as the clerk was givcession along the surface of the sea— daring the whole of the short period of time while the above-mentioned causes remain.' "Menasi supposes the objects seen in the Fata Morgana are representations of objects seen on the const.... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...flocks, armies of men on foot and horseback, and many other strange figures in their natural colors and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...period of time while the above-mentioned causes remain. ' But if, in addition to the circumstances before described, the atmosphere be highly impregnated with... | |
| Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 646 pages
...and flocks, armies of men on foot, on horseback, and many other things, in their natural colors, and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...observations of the coast and town of Reggio, by P. Minasi, to be derived from objects on shore. If, in addition to the circumstances we before described,... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 650 pages
...and flocks, armies of men on foot, on horseback, and many other things, in their natural colors, and proper actions, passing rapidly in succession along...observations of the coast and town of Reggio, by P. Minasi, to be derived from objects on shore. If, in addition to the circumstances we before described,... | |
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