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... tropics , except in desert places , is about 100 inches , or three times greater than in the middle latitudes ; and about nine times greater than in the polar regions . Hence the enormous size of the tropical rivers , compared with ...
... tropics , except in desert places , is about 100 inches , or three times greater than in the middle latitudes ; and about nine times greater than in the polar regions . Hence the enormous size of the tropical rivers , compared with ...
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... tropical portions being constantly expanded by the influence of a vertical sun , rise and give place to the denser air of colder latitudes ; by which a perpetual circulation is kept up , as de- scribed in the 1st chapter of Ecclesiastes ...
... tropical portions being constantly expanded by the influence of a vertical sun , rise and give place to the denser air of colder latitudes ; by which a perpetual circulation is kept up , as de- scribed in the 1st chapter of Ecclesiastes ...
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... tropical regions . In the island of Java alone , Mr. Lyell says there are thirty - eight and there is about the same number in other tropical portions of the old world . Between latitudes 10 ° and 15 ° , in the Provinces of Guatimala ...
... tropical regions . In the island of Java alone , Mr. Lyell says there are thirty - eight and there is about the same number in other tropical portions of the old world . Between latitudes 10 ° and 15 ° , in the Provinces of Guatimala ...
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... tropical America , they are far more numerous , and the amount of high table lands is much greater than in any other quarter of the globe . Extending from the equator to 34 ° S. and 371 N. its central plateaus are supported by an ...
... tropical America , they are far more numerous , and the amount of high table lands is much greater than in any other quarter of the globe . Extending from the equator to 34 ° S. and 371 N. its central plateaus are supported by an ...
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... tropical plants and animals , — a great physical fact which cannot be satisfac- torily accounted for in accordance with the theory of Laplace . The truth is , that his ma- thematical reasonings were founded on the sup- position that all ...
... tropical plants and animals , — a great physical fact which cannot be satisfac- torily accounted for in accordance with the theory of Laplace . The truth is , that his ma- thematical reasonings were founded on the sup- position that all ...
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Page 480 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page ii - Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage, " An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Page 259 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 468 - Let us adore the supremacy of that divine Sun, the Godhead, who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress towards his holy seat.
Page 28 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 20 - 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.
Page 508 - To every form of being is assigned An active principle, howe'er removed From sense and observation ; it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, and every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Page 474 - The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.
Page 16 - I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical principles, for I am induced by many reasons to suspect that they...
Page 161 - And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.