The Land We Live in: The Midland counties and the East coast of EnglandWilliam S. Orr & Company, 1856 |
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... nearly 50 minutes of time ; and owing to the range of latitude amounting to 10 ° 57 ' , the sun is above the horizon at the summer solstice about 2 hours 40 minutes longer in the north than in the south . The length of the longest day ...
... nearly 50 minutes of time ; and owing to the range of latitude amounting to 10 ° 57 ' , the sun is above the horizon at the summer solstice about 2 hours 40 minutes longer in the north than in the south . The length of the longest day ...
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... nearly 4 ° of latitude , from Brow Head in Cork to Malin Head in Donegal ; and 5 ° of longitude , from the east of County Down to Cape Sybil in Kerry . The north extremity corresponds in latitude to that of the Coquet River at its mouth ...
... nearly 4 ° of latitude , from Brow Head in Cork to Malin Head in Donegal ; and 5 ° of longitude , from the east of County Down to Cape Sybil in Kerry . The north extremity corresponds in latitude to that of the Coquet River at its mouth ...
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... nearly at a right angle with that of the Pennine Range , it acquires a character superior to that of a lateral offset by its great elevation . The two , therefore , though frequently classed together under the denomination of the ...
... nearly at a right angle with that of the Pennine Range , it acquires a character superior to that of a lateral offset by its great elevation . The two , therefore , though frequently classed together under the denomination of the ...
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... nearly due west towards the Irish Sea , terminating at Dent Hill near Egremont , a few miles from the coast . They stretch from east to west about 35 miles , by 37 miles from north to south , where the group has its greatest expansion ...
... nearly due west towards the Irish Sea , terminating at Dent Hill near Egremont , a few miles from the coast . They stretch from east to west about 35 miles , by 37 miles from north to south , where the group has its greatest expansion ...
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... nearly half the surface of Scotland ; while , excepting unimportant examples in Cumberland , there is hardly any real gneiss or mica - slate in England and Wales . On the other hand , the formations more recent than the carboniferous ...
... nearly half the surface of Scotland ; while , excepting unimportant examples in Cumberland , there is hardly any real gneiss or mica - slate in England and Wales . On the other hand , the formations more recent than the carboniferous ...
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Seite 85 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage, And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to- the wild ocean.
Seite xxi - And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
Seite 142 - There sometimes doth a leaping fish Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, In symphony austere ; Thither the rainbow comes — the cloud — • And mists that spread the flying shroud ; And sunbeams ; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier binds it fast.
Seite 82 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was...
Seite 82 - In this kind of settlement he continued for : some time, till an extravagance that he was guilty of, forced him both out of his country, and that way of living which he had taken up...
Seite 14 - I know a merchant-man which shall at this time be nameless, that bought the contents of two noble libraries for forty shillings...
Seite 78 - The house is shown by a garrulous old lady, in a frosty red face, lighted up by a cold blue anxious eye, and garnished with artificial locks of flaxen hair, curling from under an exceedingly dirty cap. She was peculiarly assiduous in exhibiting the relics with which this, like all other celebrated shrines, abounds.
Seite xxi - He has commonly a broad full face, curiously mottled with red, as if the blood had been forced by hard feeding into every vessel of the skin...
Seite xxii - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.
Seite 138 - IT is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the mind descries; And thence delight, disgust, or cool indiffrence rise: When minds are joyful, then we look around, And what is seen is all on fairy ground; Again they sicken, and on every view Cast their own dull and melancholy hue; Or, if...