| English literature - 1854 - 630 pages
...inspired writer promulgated the whole system — "The wind goeth towards the south, and tumeth about nnto the north : it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits." This passage really indicates what has been passing in the world of winds since earth was created.... | |
| Leonard Marsh - Religion - 1854 - 206 pages
...down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south and turneth about unto the north, it whirleth about continually ; and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers came,... | |
| William Henry Smyth - Mediterranean Region - 1854 - 544 pages
...Solomon, of David is borne out in saying — ' The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.' (Ecclesiastes, i. 6.) Greater The once-dreaded Lybian Gulf must not be passed without being noticed,... | |
| Cornelius S. Cartee - Physical geography - 1855 - 348 pages
...remarks on climate. CHAPTER XVII. OF WINDS. " The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually: and the...the winds are either constant or periodical. In the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans we find a gentle and regular wind blowing from east to west, with great... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 312 pages
...Bible tells it all in a single sentence : " The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the...again according to his circuits." — Eccl., i., 6. 108. Of course, as the surface winds H and D (Plate I.) approach the poles, there must be a sloughing... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - History - 1855 - 304 pages
...Bible tells it all in a single sentence : " The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the...returneth again according to his circuits." — Eccl., i.,6. 108. Of course, as the surface winds H and D (Plate I.) approach the poles, there must be a sloughing... | |
| Charles Baker - 1855 - 234 pages
...down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come,... | |
| Matthew Fontaine Maury - Gulf Stream - 1855 - 302 pages
...Bible tells it all in a single sentence: " The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits."—Eccl., i.,6. 108. Of course, as the surface winds H and D (Plate I.) approach the poles,... | |
| William Edward Heygate - 1856 - 264 pages
...down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north ; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come,... | |
| John Kitto - Bible - 1856 - 750 pages
...and 4hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto e transgressed 7 "All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers... | |
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