| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - Страниц: 424
...itself in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark. and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth...the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him. I rather chose to continue the employment in which I was engaged ; for, it happened, that he had given... | |
| Pliny (the Younger.) - 1809 - Страниц: 620
...itself in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This uncommon appeanance excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He accordingly ordered... | |
| Elegant epistles - 1812 - Страниц: 316
...itself in the manner I have mentioned : it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth...the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him. I rather chose to continue the employment in which I was engaged ; for it happened, that he had given... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - Страниц: 540
...the top into a sort of branches ; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either •more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phaenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be got... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - Страниц: 568
...own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
| C. Gros - 1818 - Страниц: 492
...ova weight, expanded in this manner; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either* more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited (my uncle's)" philosophical*4 curiosity (to take a nearer view of... | |
| Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - Страниц: 358
...its own weight expanded in this manner: it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
| Charles Room - 1828 - Страниц: 108
...its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. — Melawth's Translation of Pliny's Letters, Book VI. Let. 16. 3. " Fortune," cried'st tJiou, as he... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 426
...own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He... | |
| William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - Страниц: 358
...and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and gave me the liberty, if I thought proper, to attend him.... | |
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