The Tiber and Its TributariesLongmans, Green, and Company, 1877 - 221 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17
... fact . ” At length it was seen that nothing but the diversion of the river could prevent the undermining and fall of the cliff , and with it the destruction of the temple of the Sibyl , and of a portion of the town . For the substance ...
... fact . ” At length it was seen that nothing but the diversion of the river could prevent the undermining and fall of the cliff , and with it the destruction of the temple of the Sibyl , and of a portion of the town . For the substance ...
Pàgina 68
... fact * In Ranke's History of the Popes there is no mention of this inundation . The pedantic Germans seem to think that History should be confined to war and diplomacy , and that the works of God and the great phenomena of Nature are ...
... fact * In Ranke's History of the Popes there is no mention of this inundation . The pedantic Germans seem to think that History should be confined to war and diplomacy , and that the works of God and the great phenomena of Nature are ...
Pàgina 69
Strother Ancrum Smith. was wonderful , if it was a fact ; but as there can be no effect without a cause , and miracles are rejected in the present day , we must seek for some other explanation of the phenomenon . The popular notion of ...
Strother Ancrum Smith. was wonderful , if it was a fact ; but as there can be no effect without a cause , and miracles are rejected in the present day , we must seek for some other explanation of the phenomenon . The popular notion of ...
Pàgina 83
... fact that the three greatest inundations recorded in modern history happened in the sixteenth century , and within the period assigned by the Psalmist to the life of man . The author of the work from which I have extracted the account ...
... fact that the three greatest inundations recorded in modern history happened in the sixteenth century , and within the period assigned by the Psalmist to the life of man . The author of the work from which I have extracted the account ...
Pàgina 86
... fact , the tendency of rivers which flow with a sluggish current through an alluvial district is to raise their own bottoms , to obliterate their banks , and eventually , in many cases , to form shallow lakes or extensive morasses ...
... fact , the tendency of rivers which flow with a sluggish current through an alluvial district is to raise their own bottoms , to obliterate their banks , and eventually , in many cases , to form shallow lakes or extensive morasses ...
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