Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, Marvels of the Universe: Being a Full and Graphic Description of All that is Wonderful in Every Continent of the Globe, in the World of Waters and the Starry Heavens ...National Publishing Company, 1887 - Всего страниц: 864 Includes chapters on the narwhal, arctic voyages of discovery and the aurora. |
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... Surface Cold - Craters and Caverns - Lunar Seas - A Desert World - Eternal Silence -- No Air nor Water - No Sky - Young Lady in the Moon - Perpetual Changes - White Crested Mountains - The Moon's Attractive Features - The Moon a One ...
... Surface Cold - Craters and Caverns - Lunar Seas - A Desert World - Eternal Silence -- No Air nor Water - No Sky - Young Lady in the Moon - Perpetual Changes - White Crested Mountains - The Moon's Attractive Features - The Moon a One ...
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... Surface at Sunset Part of the Moon's Crescent during the First Quarter The Earth as Seen from the Moon Singular Aspect of the Moon's Surface Brilliant Aurora Borealis in the Arctic Seas Auroral Flames in the Northern Sky Ships Painted ...
... Surface at Sunset Part of the Moon's Crescent during the First Quarter The Earth as Seen from the Moon Singular Aspect of the Moon's Surface Brilliant Aurora Borealis in the Arctic Seas Auroral Flames in the Northern Sky Ships Painted ...
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... surface of it , and gathered the ruins into heaps . But to the children . of Scandinavia this deity was not a trembling used - up old man ; they re- quired a divinity endowed with their own savage energy . In their eyes it was the god ...
... surface of it , and gathered the ruins into heaps . But to the children . of Scandinavia this deity was not a trembling used - up old man ; they re- quired a divinity endowed with their own savage energy . In their eyes it was the god ...
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... surface of which hides the great interior furnace from view . The globe on fire , and launched into space , necessarily gave off heat , and when after a long succession of ages it had sufficiently cooled COMBAT WITH KIRCHER'S WINGED ...
... surface of which hides the great interior furnace from view . The globe on fire , and launched into space , necessarily gave off heat , and when after a long succession of ages it had sufficiently cooled COMBAT WITH KIRCHER'S WINGED ...
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... surface . Whilst the crust of the earth was yet thin , a slight effort of the central heat sufficed to rupture it , but this only produced insignificant elevations . When this crust had acquired greater thickness , its rupture ...
... surface . Whilst the crust of the earth was yet thin , a slight effort of the central heat sufficed to rupture it , but this only produced insignificant elevations . When this crust had acquired greater thickness , its rupture ...
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Стр. 576 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Стр. 818 - Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, — And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?
Стр. 775 - At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention. It proved to be the mast of a ship that must have been completely wrecked; for there were the remains of handkerchiefs, by which some of the crew had fastened themselves to this spar, to prevent their being washed off by the waves. There was no trace by which the name of the ship could be ascertained.
Стр. 35 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Стр. 855 - d not a lovelier star. The hour arrived — and it became A wandering mass of shapeless flame, A pathless comet, and a curse, The menace of the universe; Still rolling on with innate force, Without a sphere, without a course, A bright deformity on high, The monster of the upper sky!
Стр. 385 - ... in an instant. The snow-white bird is now in sight: her long neck is stretched forward, her eye is on the watch, vigilant as that of her enemy ; her large wings seem with difficulty to support the weight of her body, although they flap incessantly. So irksome do her exertions seem, that her very legs are spread beneath her tail, to aid her in her flight.
Стр. 339 - His eyes began to flash fiercer fire as we stood motionless on the defensive, and the crest of short hair which stands on his forehead began to twitch rapidly up and down, while his powerful fangs were shown as he again sent forth a thunderous roar. And now, truly...
Стр. 226 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Стр. 610 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...