The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 58Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1863 |
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... carry the steam away from us while we stood upon the windward side . This one is called , par excellence , the Great Geyser , and it has for many years attracted the chief attention of visitors . Geologists , chemists , and commen men ...
... carry the steam away from us while we stood upon the windward side . This one is called , par excellence , the Great Geyser , and it has for many years attracted the chief attention of visitors . Geologists , chemists , and commen men ...
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... carried to the hight of nearly three hundred and sixty feet . When seen by Van Troil in 1772 , it rose to ninety - two feet . In 1789 , Sir John Stan- ley found the highest jet observed by his company to be ninety - six feet . In 1809 ...
... carried to the hight of nearly three hundred and sixty feet . When seen by Van Troil in 1772 , it rose to ninety - two feet . In 1789 , Sir John Stan- ley found the highest jet observed by his company to be ninety - six feet . In 1809 ...
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... carrying away hundreds of loads of hay . And now , fetching a wide circuit , in order | Such was the depth of the water in one to avoid treacherous lava , we arrive at a part , that a large vessel might have sailed manse by moonlight ...
... carrying away hundreds of loads of hay . And now , fetching a wide circuit , in order | Such was the depth of the water in one to avoid treacherous lava , we arrive at a part , that a large vessel might have sailed manse by moonlight ...
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... carried away . Nevertheless , one beneficial effect of this deluge was , that it carried out to sea two long spits of sand , forming a deep bay between them , which served for a haven . Little or no lava appears to have been ejected ...
... carried away . Nevertheless , one beneficial effect of this deluge was , that it carried out to sea two long spits of sand , forming a deep bay between them , which served for a haven . Little or no lava appears to have been ejected ...
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... carried the sand into the very heart of the Jökull . A careful examination shows that the Having thus presented a selection of the more striking mountain and hill scenes in this remarkable island , let us inquire what lies underneath ...
... carried the sand into the very heart of the Jökull . A careful examination shows that the Having thus presented a selection of the more striking mountain and hill scenes in this remarkable island , let us inquire what lies underneath ...
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Page 464 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 464 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 245 - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 326 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 420 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
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Page 490 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 324 - If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp...
Page 271 - I will report no other wonder but this ; that though I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man : with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind ; so as even his teachers found something in him to observe and learn, above that which they had usually read or taught.
Page 326 - And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you...