Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, Volumes 5-6Edward Stanford, 1870 |
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Page 94 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 93 - I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous...
Page 94 - The country people began .to look with a superstitious awe at the red lowering aspect of the sun ; and indeed there was reason for the most enlightened person to be apprehensive ; for all the while Calabria and part of the isle of Sicily were torn and convulsed with earthquakes ; and about that juncture a volcano sprung out of the sea on the coast of Norway.
Page 37 - I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done. 22 As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.
Page 38 - Cornwall, or, in his solitary laboratory, might discover the most sublime mysteries of nature, and trace out the most intricate combinations of her elements. But the meteorologist is impotent if alone ; his observations are useless, for they are made upon a point, while the speculations to be derived from them must be on space. It is of no avail that he changes his position, ignorant of what is passing behind him...
Page 37 - ... thoughts are amidst the loveliness of creation ; it leads the mind, as well as the eye, to the morning mist, and the noon-day glory, and the twilight cloud — to the purple peace of the mountain heaven — to the cloudy repose of the green valley ; now expatiating in the silence of stormless tether, now on the rushing of the wings of the wind.
Page 37 - For its interest, it is universal; unabated in every place, and in all time. He, whose kingdom is the heaven, can never meet with an uninteresting space, — can never exhaust the phenomena of an hour ; he is in a realm of perpetual change, — of eternal motion, — of infinite mystery. Light and darkness, and cold and heat, are to him as friends of familiar countenance, but of infinite variety of conversation ; and while the geologist yearns for the mountain, the botanist for the field, and the...
Page 38 - ... .The Meteorological Society, therefore, has been formed, not for a city, nor for a kingdom, but for the world. It wishes to be the central point, the moving power, of a vast machine, and it feels that unless it can be this, it must be powerless; if it cannot do all it can do nothing.
Page 38 - ... over the globe, so that it may be able to know, at any given instant, the state of the atmosphere at every point on its surface. Let it not be supposed that this is a chimerical imagination, — the vain dream of a few philosophical enthusiasts. It is co-operation which we now come forward to request, in full confidence, that if our efforts are met with a zeal worthy of the cause, our associates will be astonished, individually, by the result of their labours in a body. Let none be discouraged...
Page 38 - ... mighty Mind, — a ray of light entering into one vast Eye, — a member of a multitudinous Power, contributing to the knowledge, and aiding the efforts, which will be capable of solving the most deeply hidden problems of Nature, penetrating into the most occult causes, and reducing to principle and order the vast multitude of beautiful and wonderful phenomena, by which the wisdom and benevolence of' the Supreme Deity regulates the course of the times and the seasons, robes the globe with verdure...