Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind; which might extend the sight of the philosopher... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 55by Samuel Johnson - 1806Full view - About this book
| 458 pages
...procure a body, at once, in a high degree, solid and transparent; which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is of yet... | |
| Great Britain - 1848 - 510 pages
...procure a body at once, in a high degree, solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind; which might...the unbounded extent of the material creation, and (2) A2 at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and what is yet of more importance,... | |
| Apsley Pellatt - 1849 - 192 pages
...procure a body, at once, in a high degree, solid and transparent; which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another, with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is of... | |
| 1849 - 896 pages
...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent ; which might admit the light of the sun and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and, what is of yet... | |
| Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) - 1851 - 600 pages
...to produce a body, at onceiii a degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decay of nature and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer in glass employed,... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the ight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and...extent of the material creation, and at another with theendlcsssubordination of animal lite; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays... | |
| Albert James Bernays - 1853 - 316 pages
...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun and exclude the violence of the wind; which might...philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him, at on<^ time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1857 - 348 pages
...procure a body, at once, in a high degree, solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and what is of yet... | |
| William Henry WILLS (Miscellaneous Writer.) - 1860 - 456 pages
...procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind: which might...one time with the unbounded extent of the material M2 creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life : and, what is yet of more... | |
| Sheridan Muspratt - 1853 - 310 pages
...procure a body, at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might...charm him, at one time, with the unbounded extent of material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life; and what is of yet... | |
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