Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds: Both in These Days and in Antient TimesG. Nicol, 1796 - 34 sider |
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... o'clock in the evening ; -sending forth sparks , like rockets ; -throwing out smoke like a furnace ; -rendering violent explosions , and blasts , more like those of cannon , and of numerous muskets , than like thunder ; -and casting ...
... o'clock in the evening ; -sending forth sparks , like rockets ; -throwing out smoke like a furnace ; -rendering violent explosions , and blasts , more like those of cannon , and of numerous muskets , than like thunder ; -and casting ...
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... o'clock at night , it began to rain sand and ashes ; and con- tinued to do so till two o'clock the next morning . The ashes lay about two inches thick on the deck : so that they cast them overboard just as they had done snow the day ...
... o'clock at night , it began to rain sand and ashes ; and con- tinued to do so till two o'clock the next morning . The ashes lay about two inches thick on the deck : so that they cast them overboard just as they had done snow the day ...
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... , Curate , as we should call him , of the parish . According to their accounts ; about six o'clock , in the af- ternoon of the day just mentioned , there was seen towards the east , a kind of fiery ball ; which , [ 24 ]
... , Curate , as we should call him , of the parish . According to their accounts ; about six o'clock , in the af- ternoon of the day just mentioned , there was seen towards the east , a kind of fiery ball ; which , [ 24 ]
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... o'clock , a great fire was to be seen in the heavens ; and that about five o'clock the stones fell down with a rushing noise . And Julius Scaliger ( in his book De Subtilitate Exerc . p . 333. ) affirms , that he had in his possession a ...
... o'clock , a great fire was to be seen in the heavens ; and that about five o'clock the stones fell down with a rushing noise . And Julius Scaliger ( in his book De Subtilitate Exerc . p . 333. ) affirms , that he had in his possession a ...
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... o'clock in the afternoon , in the country of Pleskowicz , some miles from Reichstadt , in Bohe- mia , a small cloud was seen , the sky being otherwise clear ; whereupon , at one place twenty - five , at another eight , great and small ...
... o'clock in the afternoon , in the country of Pleskowicz , some miles from Reichstadt , in Bohe- mia , a small cloud was seen , the sky being otherwise clear ; whereupon , at one place twenty - five , at another eight , great and small ...
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Remarks Concerning Stones Said to Have Fallen from the Clouds, Both in These ... EDWARD. KING Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2018 |
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Side 11 - ... of the stones and the attendant manifestation of electrical phenomena are the points common to the various observations. The explanation cited from a Mr. King by Cavallo seems most in accord with Shelley's employment of the phenomenon and also with Beccaria's surmise as to its electrical character: It is also well known, that a mixture of pyrites of almost any kind, beaten small, and mixed with iron filings and water, when buried in the ground, will take fire, and produce a sort of artificial...
Side 32 - The merciful and gracious Lord hath so done His marvellous works : that they ought to be had in remembrance.
Side 15 - So Tacitus says, that at Cyprus, the image of Venus was not of human shape; but a figure rising continually round, from a larger bottom to a small top, in conical fashion. And it is to be remarked, that Maximus Tyrius (who perhaps was a more accurate mathematician), says, the stone was pyramidal...
Side 17 - He made darkness his | secret | place ! his pavilion round about him with dark water, and thick| clouds to | cover | him. 19 At the brightness of his presence his | clouds re- | moved ! hail-] stones, and | coals of | fire.
Side 14 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter...
Side 21 - Dec. 13, 1795, heard various noises in the air, like pistols, or distant guns at sea, felt two distinct concussions of the earth, and heard a hissing noise passing through the air; and a labouring man plainly saw (as we are told) that something was so passing and beheld a stone . . . descending, and striking into the ground which flew up all about him and, in falling, sparks of fire seemed to fly from it.
Side 16 - Plutarch mentions a stone which formerly fell from the clouds; and the old writer from whom he took his account says : ( It hovered about for a long time ; seemed to throw out splinters, which flew around like wandering stars, before they fell, and at last it came down to the earth a stone of extraordinary size.
Side 7 - the stones were generated in the air by a combination of mineral substances which had risen somewhere or other as...
Side 14 - In the Acts of the holy Apostles, we read, that the chief magistrate, at Ephesus, begun his harangue to the people, by saying, " Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knowetb " not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the • Philos.
Side 24 - Lightning is an electrical stroke on a large scale. — If then the reduction of iron can be obtained, by the discharge of an electrical machine; why should not this be accomplished as well and with greater effect by the powerful discharge of the lightning of the...