On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations |
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... regions : regions abounding in scenes which Warton might have pictured as the native residence of poetic fancy . SULZER , born at Winterthun , in the canton of Zu- rich , animated by the example of Gessner the natu- ralist , lived to ...
... regions : regions abounding in scenes which Warton might have pictured as the native residence of poetic fancy . SULZER , born at Winterthun , in the canton of Zu- rich , animated by the example of Gessner the natu- ralist , lived to ...
Page 86
... regions being incrusted with it . Some have also supposed it to be connected with the magnetic fluid ; but Captain Par- ry , when in the Arctic Regions , could not perceive that it affected the magnetic needle in any degree . It neither ...
... regions being incrusted with it . Some have also supposed it to be connected with the magnetic fluid ; but Captain Par- ry , when in the Arctic Regions , could not perceive that it affected the magnetic needle in any degree . It neither ...
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... regions . We behold Uranus and his satellites moving in a course contrary to all other analogies ; we pass the ... region of the Bear through the middle of Boötes , and thence through the Serpent and OPIU- CHUS , it is not impossible ...
... regions . We behold Uranus and his satellites moving in a course contrary to all other analogies ; we pass the ... region of the Bear through the middle of Boötes , and thence through the Serpent and OPIU- CHUS , it is not impossible ...
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