Eclectic Physical GeographyVan Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1888 - 382 sider |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
America animals anticyclones Arctic Ocean Atlantic atmosphere basin become body bottom called carbon carbonic acid causes climate clouds coast colder composed continental plateau continuous cooling cyclone deposit depth direction drainage basin earth earth's surface earthquake east elevation energy equator equatorial erosion ether waves fathoms feet fossils glacier gradually grand division greater heat height hence highland increases Indian Ocean indicated islands lake land latitudes lava layer less light lower lowlands magnet Malay Archipelago mass meridian miles mineral molecules mountain move movement nearly northern northern hemisphere occur ocean organisms particles peculiar plants polar pole pressure rain-fall rapid rays regions relatively rise river rocks sediment side slope snow solid South America southern hemisphere square miles strata stratum stream stream bed substances temperature thermal equator tidal wave tide tion tropical valley vapor volcanic warm warmer whirl winds zone
Populære avsnitt
Side 313 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Side 149 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Side 43 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Side 248 - Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low : and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together ; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Side 55 - 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.
Side 66 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Side 78 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Side 350 - The differences are everywhere striking: the resemblances are less obvious in the fulness of their extent, and they are never contemplated without wonder by those who, in the study of anatomy and physiology, are first made aware how near is man in his physical constitution to the brutes. In all the principles of his internal structure, in the composition and functions of his parts, man is but an animal. The lord of the earth, who contemplates the eternal order of the universe, and aspirrs to communion...
Side 122 - LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? 9 Thou rulest the raging of the sea : when the' waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.
Side 353 - ... great gulf" between a watch that keeps accurate time and another that will not go at all, there is therefore a great structural hiatus between the two watches. A hair in the balance-wheel, a little rust on a pinion, a bend in a tooth of the escapement, a something so slight that only the practised eye of the watchmaker can discover it, may be the source of all the difference.