 | 1864 - 752 pages
...surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is prodnced by the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...both are blown by the mechanical force of the sun. Ho lifts the rivers and the glaciers up to the mountains ; and thus the cataract and the avalanche... | |
 | Missouri. State Board of Agriculture - 1857 - 680 pages
...derived from the hand which winds up the clock, so surely is all terrestrial power drawn from the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid and the atmosphere...him. Thunder and lightning are also his transmuted strength. Every fire that burns, and every flame that glows, dispenses light and heat which originally... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by the * Mayer ' Die organische Bewegung,' p. 39. sun.* His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...storms which agitate both are blown by the mechanical torce of the sun. He lifts the rivers and the glaciers up the mountains ; and thus the cataract and... | |
 | 1864 - 304 pages
...on the earth's surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, is produced by the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...cataract and the avalanche shoot with an energy derived from him. Thunder and lightning are also his transmuted strength. Every fire that burns, and every... | |
 | Matthew Fontaine Maury - 1864 - 196 pages
...surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...mechanical force of the sun. He lifts the rivers and glaciers up the mountains, and thus the cataract and the avalanche shoot with an energy derived immediately... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1864 - 796 pages
...surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...both are blown by the mechanical force of the sun. Ho lifts the rivers and the glaciers up to the mountains ; and thus the cataract and the avalanche... | |
 | 1864 - 632 pages
...rays. He then proceeds : — ' His (the sun's) warmth keeps the sea liquid and the atmosphere a ga«, and all the storms which agitate both are blown by...of the sun. He lifts the rivers and the glaciers up the mountains; and thus the cataract and the avalanche shoot with an energy derived immediately from... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - 554 pages
...and physical, is produced by the sun's rays. He then proceeds : "His (the sun's) warmth keeps the sen liquid and the atmosphere a gas, and all the storms...both are blown by the mechanical force of the sun. Ho lifts the rivers and the glaciers up the mountains ; and thus the cataract and the avalanche shoot... | |
 | 1864 - 568 pages
...surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...and all the storms which agitate both are blown by his mechanical force. He lifts the rivers and glaciers up to the mountains; and thus the cataract and... | |
 | David Urquhart - 1865 - 524 pages
...and every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by 'the sun. His warmth keeps the sea liquid, and the atmosphere...of the sun. He lifts the rivers and the glaciers up the mountains ; and thus the cataract and the avalanche shoot with an energy derived immediately from... | |
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Leaving out of account the eruptions of volcanoes, and the ebb and flow of the tides, every mechanical action on the earth's surface, every manifestation of power, organic and inorganic, vital and physical, is produced by the sun. His warmth keeps the... 
