The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Հատոր 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... colours , sounds , electricity , galvanism , and magnetism , and the laws of their operation - the causes which ope- rate in the production of thunder , lightning , luminous and fiery meteors , hail , rain , snow , dew , and other at ...
... colours , sounds , electricity , galvanism , and magnetism , and the laws of their operation - the causes which ope- rate in the production of thunder , lightning , luminous and fiery meteors , hail , rain , snow , dew , and other at ...
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... coloured earth used in the bricks of the buildings , resembles , at a distance , a number of large straw bee - hives . We entered the city through the Bab - el - Ullah , or the gate of God , so called from its leading to Jerusalem and ...
... coloured earth used in the bricks of the buildings , resembles , at a distance , a number of large straw bee - hives . We entered the city through the Bab - el - Ullah , or the gate of God , so called from its leading to Jerusalem and ...
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... colours , and the most varied forms . These form natural festoons , which hang be- fore the mouth of the cave , and are gently agitated by the passing currents of air . What a contrast between such a scene and the gloomy entrances to ...
... colours , and the most varied forms . These form natural festoons , which hang be- fore the mouth of the cave , and are gently agitated by the passing currents of air . What a contrast between such a scene and the gloomy entrances to ...
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... colour and hue , that in every direction salutes his eye . In this respect , also , the sun may be said to be the fountain of cheerfulness , as it is certainly the cause of color ! The sun is the great limner of nature , whose ...
... colour and hue , that in every direction salutes his eye . In this respect , also , the sun may be said to be the fountain of cheerfulness , as it is certainly the cause of color ! The sun is the great limner of nature , whose ...
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... colour ; and , but for this , what disadvantages would we labour under , notwithstanding the beneficial distribution of light and heat . In that case , we would not only be unable to distinguish objects at a distance , and to perceive ...
... colour ; and , but for this , what disadvantages would we labour under , notwithstanding the beneficial distribution of light and heat . In that case , we would not only be unable to distinguish objects at a distance , and to perceive ...
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