 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1830 - 330 Seiten
...air by water, and tortures water by fire to change or modify or destroy the natural forms of things. But, in some lustrums his works begin to change, and...ruins; and, his mighty temples, framed as it were for immortal and divine purposes, and his bridges formed of granite and ribbed with iron, and his walls... | |
 | 1830 - 440 Seiten
...by water, and tortures water by fire, to change, or modify, or destroy, the natural forms of things. But, in some lustrums, his works begin to change,...; and his mighty temples, framed, as it were, for immortal and divine purposes — and his bridges formed of granite, and ribbed of iron— and his walls... | |
 | 1830 - 466 Seiten
...by water, and tortures water by fire, to change, or modify, or destroy, the natural forms of things. But, in some lustrums, his works begin to change,...; and his mighty temples, framed, as it were, for immortal ^nd divine purposes — and his bridges formed of granite, and ribbed of iron— and his w^ls... | |
 | 1830 - 398 Seiten
...air by water, and tortures water by fire to change or modify or destroy the natural forms of things. But in some lustrums his works begin to change, and...ruins ; and, his mighty temples, framed as it were for immortal and divine purposes, and his bridges formed of granite and ribbed with iron, and his walls... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 582 Seiten
...by water, and tortures water by fire to change, or modify, or destroy the natural forms of things. But in some lustrums his works begin to change, and...ruins ; and his mighty temples, framed as it were for immortal and divine purposes, and his bridges formed of granite 3 T 2 and ribbed with iron, and his... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 Seiten
...by water, and tortures water by fire to change, or modify, or destroy the natural forms of things. But in some lustrums his works begin to change, and...ruins ; and his mighty temples, framed as it were for immortal and divine purposes, and his bridges formed of granite and ribbed with iron, and his walls... | |
 | Sir Humphry Davy - 1838 - 284 Seiten
...by water, and tortures water by fire to change, or modify, or destroy the natural forms of things. But in some lustrums his works begin to change, and...which he has endeavoured to give eternity even to his perishable remains, are gradually destroyed; and these structures which have resisted the waves... | |
 | 1852 - 590 Seiten
...by water, and tortures water by fire to change or modify, or destroy, the natural forms of things. But, in some lustrums, his works begin to change,...ruins; and his mighty temples, framed, as it were, for immortal and divine purposes — and his bridges formed of granite, and ribbed of iron — and his... | |
 | 1830 - 412 Seiten
...air by water, and tortures water by fire to change or modify or destroy the natural forms of things. But in some lustrums his works begin to change, and...ruins ; and, his mighty temples, framed as it were for immortal and divine purposes, and his bridges formed of granite and ribbed with iron, and his walls... | |
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... ships; he employs the metals found in the bosom of the earth as instruments of power, and the sands and clays which constitute its surface as ornaments and resources of luxury; he imprisons air by water, and tortures water by fire to change or modify... 