 | 1804 - 560 pàgines
...great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches, and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phenomenon for the philosophic Pliny,... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.) - 1807 - 424 pàgines
...that the cloud, being pressed back by its own weight, expanded itself in the manner I have mentioned ; it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark....more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This uncommon appearance excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He accordingly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 pàgines
...great height in the form of a trunk, which extended itself at the top into a sort of branches ; and it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and...•more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This was a noble phaenomenon for the philosophic Pliny, who immediately ordered a light vessel to be got... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 pàgines
...that the cloud, being pressed back by its own weight, expanded itself in the manner I have mentioned : it appeared sometimes bright, and sometimes dark and...more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This uncommon appearance excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He accordingly... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 568 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards; or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | Edwin Atherstone - 1824 - 358 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight expanded in this manner: it appeared sometimes...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | Picture gallery - 1824 - 234 pàgines
...itself in the manner I have mentioned: it appeared sometimes dark and spotted, and sometimes bright, as it was either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. " ' This uncommon appearance excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He accordingly... | |
 | Charles Room - 1828 - 108 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards ; or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes...either more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. — Melawth's Translation of Pliny's Letters, Book VI. Let. 16. 3. " Fortune," cried'st tJiou, as he... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards ; or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner. It appeared sometimes...cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical curiosity to take a nearer view of it. He ordered a light vessel to be got ready, and... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 358 pàgines
...of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner : it appeared sometimes Bright and sometimes dark and spotted, as it was more or less impregnated with earth and cinders. This extraordinary phenomenon excited my uncle's philosophical... | |
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... at the top into a sort of branches ; occasioned, I imagine, either by a sudden gust of air that impelled it, the force of which decreased as it advanced upwards, or the cloud itself, being pressed back again by its own weight, expanded in this manner;... 
