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" But her hour is come, she is wiped away from the face of the earth, and buried in perpetual oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth are melted as wax before the sun... "
Outlines of Geology: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered ... - Page 10
by William Thomas Brande - 1817 - 144 pages
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 666 pages
...sumptuous ?—her hour is come ; she is wiped from the face of the earth, and buried in everlasting oblivion. But not the cities only, and the works of...are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found ; all have vanished and dropped away, like the snow that once rested upon their summits!."...
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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the ..., Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 806 pages
...But not the cities •nl^v . and the works of men's hands, but the hills and mountains, and roc. Its of the earth, are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is r»« where found ; all have vanished and dropped away, like the snow that once rested upon their summits!."...
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The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index. The Eight Volumes Comprised ...

1822 - 788 pages
...everlasting oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's h»nds, but the everlasting hills, the I been pleased to see her interrupted in an account of her travels, by a message to her fo Here s'oml the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered ma")' countries, and reached their arms from...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 6

1822 - 386 pages
...perpetual oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth, are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found. Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 6

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 386 pages
...perpetual oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth, are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found. Here stood the Alps, a prodigious range of stone, the load of the earth, that covered...
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Views of the Creation

1822 - 192 pages
...? 'Tis not Cities only atid works of men* hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains arid the rocks of the Earth are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is ho where to be found. Here stood the Alps a prodigious range of Stone,' the Load of the Earih — 'that...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 pages
...everlasting oblivion. Bu t it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth are melted as wax before the sun, and " their place is no where found." Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered VOL. II. D d many countries,...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 5-6

British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...everlasting oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth are melted as wax before the sun, and 'their place is no where found.' Here stood the Alps, the load of the earth, that covered many countries, and reached...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 15

1823 - 886 pages
...But it is not cities only, and the works of men's hands ; the everlasting hills, the mountains aud rocks of the earth, are melted as wax before the sun, and tlu.tr place is nowhere found. Here stood the Alps, tin load of the earth, that covered many countries,...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 3

1824 - 278 pages
...everlasting oblivion. But it is not cities only, and works of men's hands, but the everlasting hills, the mountains and rocks of the earth, are melted as wax before the sun, and their place is no where found. Here stood the Alps, the load of earth, that covered many countries, and reached their...
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