 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - Počet stránok 600
...crawling of a fly on the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate 'i Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - Počet stránok 596
...crawling of a fly on the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. (Jan any thing be more strange to contemplate : Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied... | |
 | 1826 - Počet stránok 1138
...weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied any thing more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and to gratify the... | |
 | 1827 - Počet stránok 640
...crawling of a fly upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere; and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contempl»te ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - Počet stránok 68
...crawling of a fly upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied any... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1828 - Počet stránok 248
...crawling of a fly upon the window. Yet we find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse...more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy-tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and... | |
 | 1828 - Počet stránok 496
...upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of ihe atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills...contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy 'tales that ever were fancied, anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and to gratify the... | |
 | 1829 - Počet stránok 522
...that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that n sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power....more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy-tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and... | |
 | 1829 - Počet stránok 522
...crawling of a fly upon the window. Yet we find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy-tales that ever were fancied any... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - Počet stránok 910
...crawling of a fly upon the window. We find that these two operations are performed by the same means, the weight of the atmosphere, — and that a sea-horse climbs the ice-hills by no other power. Can any thing be more strange to contemplate ? Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied any... | |
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Is there in all the fairy tales that ever were fancied anything more calculated to arrest the attention and to occupy and to gratify the mind, than this most unexpected resemblance between things so unlike to the eyes of ordinary beholders ? What more... 
