The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various Objects of Nature Throughout the Year; with Poetical Illus., and Moral Reflections on Each Subject, المجلد 1Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1817 |
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... increase . In summer , on the contrary , the rays of the sun fall more perpendicularly upon us , and therefore strike with greater force and in greater numbers on the same place , than when they come more obliquely ; and by the longer ...
... increase . In summer , on the contrary , the rays of the sun fall more perpendicularly upon us , and therefore strike with greater force and in greater numbers on the same place , than when they come more obliquely ; and by the longer ...
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... increase in bulk like the drops of rain or hail - stones . Dr. Grew , in a discourse on the nature of snow , observes , that many parts of it are of a regular figure , for the most part so many little rowels or stars of six points , and ...
... increase in bulk like the drops of rain or hail - stones . Dr. Grew , in a discourse on the nature of snow , observes , that many parts of it are of a regular figure , for the most part so many little rowels or stars of six points , and ...
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... increased in height by the freezing of the spray of the sea , or of the melting of the snow which falls on them . Those which remain in this frozen climate , receive continual growth : others are gradually wafted by the northern winds ...
... increased in height by the freezing of the spray of the sea , or of the melting of the snow which falls on them . Those which remain in this frozen climate , receive continual growth : others are gradually wafted by the northern winds ...
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... increasing love and unceasing adoration . Most sincerely do we accord with the Danish Poet : - Oh ! no where blooms so bright the summer rose , As where youth cropt it from the valley's breast ; Oh ! no where are the downs so soft as ...
... increasing love and unceasing adoration . Most sincerely do we accord with the Danish Poet : - Oh ! no where blooms so bright the summer rose , As where youth cropt it from the valley's breast ; Oh ! no where are the downs so soft as ...
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... increases accord ing to the square of his diameter , our Earth will , to the inhabitants of Jupiter , appear 121 times less than this noble planet appears to us . Jupiter is more than twelve hundred times larger than the Earth . He ...
... increases accord ing to the square of his diameter , our Earth will , to the inhabitants of Jupiter , appear 121 times less than this noble planet appears to us . Jupiter is more than twelve hundred times larger than the Earth . He ...
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