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Passagens conhecidas
Página 1033 - A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow; Long had I watched the glory moving on O'er the still radiance of the lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow! Even in its very motion there was rest; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west.
Página 1365 - It shocks every feeling of propriety to think that in a room, and within such a space as I have been describing, civilized beings should be herding together without a decent separation of age and sex. So long as the agricultural system, in this district, requires the hind to find room for a fellow-servant of the other sex in his cabin, the least that morality and decency can demand, is, that he should have a second apartment, where the unmarried female and those of a tender age should sleep apart...
Página 1033 - Even in its very motion there was rest: While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous West. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul! To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given; And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onwards to the golden gates of Heaven, Where, to the eye of Faith, it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
Página 777 - ... and, what is most remarkable and without parallel, the sexual intercourse of one original pair serves for all the generations which proceed from the female for a whole succeeding year. Reaumur has proved that in five generations one Aphis may be the progenitor of 5,904,900,000 descendants ; and it is supposed that in one year there may be twenty...
Página 734 - July 1813 ; for on that night, notwithstanding its shortness, more dew appeared, than has ever been observed by me on any other. In the last place ; I always found, when the clearness and stillness of the atmosphere were the same, that more dew was formed between midnight and sunrise, than between sunset and midnight, 'though the positive quantity of moisture in the air, must have been less in the former, than in the latter time, in consequence of a previous precipitation of part of it. The reason,...
Página 1365 - How they lie down to rest, how they sleep, how they can preserve common decency, how unutterable horrors are avoided, is beyond all conception. The case is aggravated, when there is a young woman to be lodged in this confined space, who is not a member of the family, but is hired to do the field-work, for which every hind is bound to provide a female.
Página 1208 - Transformations of existing compounds are constantly, taking place during the whole life of a plant, in consequence of which, and as the results of these transformations, there are produced gaseous matters which are excreted by the leaves and blossoms, solid excrements deposited in the bark, and fluid soluble substances which are eliminated by the roots. Such secretions are most abundant immediately before the formation and during the continuance of the blossoms ; they diminish after the development...
Página 1364 - The general character of the best of the oldfashioned hinds' cottages is bad at the best. They have to bring everything with them, partitions, windowframes, fixtures of all kinds, grates, and a substitute for ceiling ; for they are, as I have already called them, mere sheds. They have no byre for their cows, nor styes for their pigs, nor pumps, nor wells, — nothing to promote cleanliness or comfort.
Página 1209 - Such secretions are most abundant immediately before the formation and during the continuance of the blossoms ; they diminish after the development of the fruit. Substances containing a large proportion of carbon are excreted by the roots and absorbed by the soil. Through the expulsion of these matters unfitted for nutrition, the soil receives again with usury the carbon which it had at first yielded to the young plants as food, in the form of carbonic acid.
Página 1121 - It is most fatal in a season of drought ; and June and September are the most deadly months. If ever a farmer perceives a flock on such a farm having a flushed appearance of more than ordinarily rapid thriving, he is gone. By that day eight days, when he goes out to look at them again, he will find them all lying, hanging their ears, running at the eyes, and looking at him like as many condemned criminals.