The Climate of London: Deduced from Meteorological Observations Made in the Metropolis and at Various Places Around it, Volume 1

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Harvey and Darton, J. and A. Arch, Longman, Hatchard, S. Highley [and] R. Hunter, 1833
 

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Page 247 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page xxxiv - For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven ; To make the weight for the winds ; And he weigheth the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page xxxiv - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Page 229 - ... through the year, being least in spring, and greatest in winter ; and it belongs, in strictness, to the nights ; which average three degrees and seven-tenths warmer than in the country ; while the heat of the day, owing without doubt to the interception of a portion of the solar rays by a veil of smoke, falls, on a mean of years, about a third of a degree short of that in the open plain.
Page 106 - ... resolved to remove his body into the choir, which was to have been done with solemn procession on the 15th of July. It rained, however...
Page xl - Their appearance, increase, and disappearance, in fair weather, are often periodical, and keep pace with the temperature of the day. Thus they will begin to form some hours after sun-rise, arrive at their maximum in the hottest part of the afternoon, then go on diminishing and totally disperse about sun-set.
Page xxxiv - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and sceth under the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Page xlix - It affirms the startling and apparently incredible proposition, that ' when two elastic fluids, denoted by A and B, are mixed together, there is no mutual repulsion amongst their particles — that is, the particles of A do not repel those of B, as they do one another ; consequently, the pressure or whole weight upon any one particle arises solely from those of its own kind.
Page 105 - I may now state, that in a majority of our summers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition ; not that any long space before is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement.
Page 108 - Abyssinia is clear, and the sun shines; about nine, a small cloud not above four feet broad, appears in the east, whirling violently round, as if upon an axis ; but arrived near the zenith, it first abates its motion, then loses its form, and extends iUelf greatly, and seems to call up vapours from all opposite quarters.

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