 | François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - 1864 - 300 sivua
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and the firmest buildings to the earth; to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ships * Dr. Buist of Bombay. 8 to pieces like toys. It warms and cools by turns the earth and the living... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 sivua
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth—to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains,...cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required. It bends the rays of the sun from their path, to give us the twilight... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1865 - 512 sivua
...sufficient, when in motion, to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, and again throws them down in rain or dew. It bends the rays of the sun... | |
 | Patrick Buchan - 1868 - 276 sivua
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and the firmest buildings to the earth, to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. How wonderful the preparation for the work about to follow ! The clouds to store the waters ; the atmosphere... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 sivua
...motion, its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable buildings with the earth— to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of cloud?, and throws them down again as rain or dew when tliey arc required. It bends the rays of the... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1869 - 548 sivua
...motion, its force is sufficient to level with the earth the most stately forests and stable buildings, to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like...strongest ships to pieces like toys. It warms and cools bv turns the earth and the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapours from the sea and land,... | |
 | Raphael Semmes - 1869 - 862 sivua
...earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ship to pieces like toys. "It warms and cools, by turns,...the living creatures that inhabit it. It draws up vapors from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds,... | |
 | ADMIRAL RAPHAEL SEMMES - 1869 - 850 sivua
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ship to pieces like toys. "It warms and cools, by turns, the earth, and the living creatures that inhabit... | |
 | Raphael Semmes - 1869 - 864 sivua
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, and stable buildings with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ship to pieces like toys. " It warms and cools, by turns, the earth, and the living creatures that... | |
 | Raphael Semmes - 1869 - 866 sivua
...its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests, and stable buildings- with the earth — to raise the waters of the ocean into ridges like mountains, and dash the strongest ship to pieces like toys. "It warms and cools, by turns, the earth, and the living creatures that inhabit... | |
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... flower that feeds on the dew it supplies ; yet it bears the fleets of nations on its wings around the world, and crushes the most refractory substances with its weight. When in motion its force is sufficient to level the most stately forests and stable... 
