| William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or, rather, verythick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or, rather, a very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water,...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...tidev you might frequently remark the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather very thick mist hanging1 over the edge of the water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...to shew their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the seaside, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...show their excess of spirits . and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore. and with an...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretcbine along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 440 pages
...to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| Creation - 1826 - 188 pages
...sea-side in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing -tide, you might frequently remark the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather Very thick...water, to the height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of I he breadth of two or three • yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reich, und... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - Animals - 1828 - 126 pages
...Shall I read it, Father ? Do, Frank ; it is very remarkable. "Walking," he says, " by the sea-side, in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
| William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 406 pages
...equal attention and amusement), all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess. Walking by the sea side, in a calm...height, perhaps, of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with... | |
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