 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...tjirgenti, where the slightest whisper is carried with perfect distinctness through a distance of 250 feet, from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar. By an unfortunate coincidence, the focus of one of the reflecting surfaces was chosen for the place... | |
 | Edward Boid - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...accoustic effects, which caused a source of diversion to the wags of earlier days in the following way. The slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great western door, where once stood a confessional, to the cornice behind the high altar (a dis* The ancient race of Akragas... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...where the slightest whisper is carried, with perfect distinctness, through a distance of 250 feet, from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar. By an unfortunate coincidence, the focus of one of the reflecting surfaces was chosen for the place... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...still.—We extract the following account of two very interesting echoes from Mr. Herschell's work:— ' In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay... | |
 | 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...still. We extract the following account of two very interesting echoes from Mr. Herschell's work :— " In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...— We extract the following account of two very interesting echoes from Mr. Herschell's work : — ' In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay... | |
 | 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...We extract the following account of two very interesting echoes from Mr. Herschell's work : — • In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay... | |
 | 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...out, after considerable anomalies of weather, in the year 1817 in Bengal. REMAREARLE ECHOES. — ' In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of V.')O feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...pour out a common tumbler full of water, and put in the same quantity of fresh. REMARKABLE ECHOES. — In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...pour ont a common tumbler full of water, and put in the same quantity of fresh. REMARKABLE ECHOES. — In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...great western door to the cornice behind the high ahar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the... | |
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In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence... 
