The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various Objects of Nature Throughout the Year; with Poetical Illus., and Moral Reflections on Each Subject, Volumen2Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1817 |
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... effect , the animals leave considerable vacuities between each vaulted layer , which are generally fifteen or sixteen in number . By this ingenious piece of architecture , one or two layers may be moistened with water , while the others ...
... effect , the animals leave considerable vacuities between each vaulted layer , which are generally fifteen or sixteen in number . By this ingenious piece of architecture , one or two layers may be moistened with water , while the others ...
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... effects insensibly decrease ; the song of the nightingale is no longer heard ; and that favourite enjoyment of the country , a walk through fields of VOL . II . C verdure , becomes inconvenient and unpleasing , on account of NO . XLI ...
... effects insensibly decrease ; the song of the nightingale is no longer heard ; and that favourite enjoyment of the country , a walk through fields of VOL . II . C verdure , becomes inconvenient and unpleasing , on account of NO . XLI ...
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... effects . They view , every day , the most glorious object in Nature , without one emo- tion of grateful pleasure , without one idea or reflec- tion . In Paradise Lost , when Adam awakes Eve in the morning , he reminds her of the sweet ...
... effects . They view , every day , the most glorious object in Nature , without one emo- tion of grateful pleasure , without one idea or reflec- tion . In Paradise Lost , when Adam awakes Eve in the morning , he reminds her of the sweet ...
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... effect of enchantment , with majestic woods ; the spreading lawns covered with herds and flocks ; the fields ri- pening into harvest ; and the meadows enamelled with flowers , and watered by meandering streams . The whole horizon looks ...
... effect of enchantment , with majestic woods ; the spreading lawns covered with herds and flocks ; the fields ri- pening into harvest ; and the meadows enamelled with flowers , and watered by meandering streams . The whole horizon looks ...
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... that the density of the luminous solar clouds need not be exceedingly more than that of our aurora borealis , in order to produce the effects VOL . II . D with which we are acquainted . The sun , then NO : XLIII , 49 On the Sun.
... that the density of the luminous solar clouds need not be exceedingly more than that of our aurora borealis , in order to produce the effects VOL . II . D with which we are acquainted . The sun , then NO : XLIII , 49 On the Sun.
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