| William Philipps - 1817 - 292 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous reality. The mountains called the Appennines, which traverse a... | |
| George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous reality. The mountains called the Appennines, which traverse a... | |
| John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1825 - 151 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems to have detached from their parent maes ; and when we examine the rents and ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we expect... | |
| Worcester County (Mass.) - 1826 - 404 pages
...to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences are strewed loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous reality. — The strata of lunar mountains called the Appenines,... | |
| William Lincoln, Christopher Columbus Baldwin - 1826 - 906 pages
...to bid defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences are strewed loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendbus reality. — The strata of lunar mountains called the Appenines,... | |
| John Vose - Astronomy - 1827 - 262 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences," are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...every moment, that they are to be torn from their fcase, and that the process of destructive separation, which we had only contemplated in its effects,... | |
| John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1832 - 196 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...ravines which accompany the over-hanging cliffs, we ex> pect every moment that they are to be torn from tneir base, and that the process of destructive... | |
| John Vose - Astronomy - 1834 - 230 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seems...examine the rents and ravines, which accompany the ever-changing cliffs, we expect every moment that they are to be torn from their bases, and that the... | |
| Thomas Spofford - Almanacs, American - 1835 - 84 pages
...defiance to the laws of gravitation. Around the base of these frightful eminences are strewed numerous fragments, which time seems to have detached from...moment that they are to be torn from their base, and the process of destructive separation, whicn we had only contemplated in its effects, is about to he... | |
| John Hubbard Wilkins - Astronomy - 1836 - 214 pages
...of these frightful eminences, are strewed numerous loose and unconnected fragments, which time seema to have detached from their parent mass ; and when...had only contemplated in its effects, is about to be exhibited before us in tremendous reality. The mountains, called the Apennines, which traverse a... | |
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