The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 80A. Constable, 1844 |
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... feet below that of the neighbouring sea . Of course the waters are intensely salt ; they are continually reced- ing by evaporation ; and thus furnish the great natural storehouse of salt , which supplies the wants not only of the Adaiel ...
... feet below that of the neighbouring sea . Of course the waters are intensely salt ; they are continually reced- ing by evaporation ; and thus furnish the great natural storehouse of salt , which supplies the wants not only of the Adaiel ...
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... feet below the ocean , where no zephyr fanned the fevered skin , and where the glare arising from the sea of white salt was most painful to the eyes ; where the furnace- like vapour exhaled , almost choking respiration , created an ...
... feet below the ocean , where no zephyr fanned the fevered skin , and where the glare arising from the sea of white salt was most painful to the eyes ; where the furnace- like vapour exhaled , almost choking respiration , created an ...
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... feet below the Mediterranean . These last are phenomena for which Geology can only account by some of her more recondite speculations . That of the Bahr Assal is conjecturally explained by Major Harris in a much simpler manner . The ...
... feet below the Mediterranean . These last are phenomena for which Geology can only account by some of her more recondite speculations . That of the Bahr Assal is conjecturally explained by Major Harris in a much simpler manner . The ...
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... feet in height , bounding a mere break through the mud and sand . The breadth of the channel fell short of sixty yards , and the flood was not yet at its maximum .'— ( Vol . I. p . 303. ) At this point , 300 miles from the sea , it was ...
... feet in height , bounding a mere break through the mud and sand . The breadth of the channel fell short of sixty yards , and the flood was not yet at its maximum .'— ( Vol . I. p . 303. ) At this point , 300 miles from the sea , it was ...
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... feet above the level of the sea . Abyssinia rises like a vast fortress from the burning plains with which it appears to be surrounded on every side . Whether approached from Sennaar on the north , Masuah on the north- east , or the ...
... feet above the level of the sea . Abyssinia rises like a vast fortress from the burning plains with which it appears to be surrounded on every side . Whether approached from Sennaar on the north , Masuah on the north- east , or the ...
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Seite 274 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding; for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
Seite 323 - The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, only after an heavenly and spiritual manner. And the mean whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper, is faith.
Seite 20 - Blair's Chronological and Historical Tables, from the Creation to the Present Time : With Additions and Corrections from the most authentic Writers ; including the Computation of St. Paul, as connecting the Period from the Exode to the Temple.
Seite 468 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Seite 15 - When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me, ' Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur ISTIS.
Seite 19 - LAING.— THE CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF NORWAY, From the Earliest Period of the History of the Northern Sea Kings to the Middle of the Twelfth Century, commonly called The Heimskringla. Translated from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, with Notes, and a Preliminary Discourse, by SAMUEL LAINO, Author of " Notes of a Traveller,
Seite 313 - When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion ; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion ; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
Seite 149 - A GLACIER is AN IMPERFECT FLUID, OR A VISCOUS BODY. WHICH IS URGED DOWN SLOPES OF A CERTAIN INCLINATION BY THE MUTUAL PRESSURE OF ITS PARTS.
Seite 135 - The Glacier's cold and restless mass Moves onward day by day ; But I am he who bids it pass, Or with its ice delay.