A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers Causes and Palliatives1869 |
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Page 3 - Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions; and the teeming earth Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd, By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down High tow'rs and moss-grown
Page 1 - Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions; and the teeming earth Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd, By the imprisoning of unruly wind Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving Shakes the old beldame
Page 89 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all that it Inherits, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck
Page 5 - Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well When our deep plots do fail; and that should teach us There ‘sa divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them
Page 53 - Ah Fear! ah frantic Fear, I see, I see thee near. I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye! Like thee I start, like thee disordered
Page 47 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed the present
Page 28 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil It out.
Page 86 - as in a few examples observed, the masonry was of the best class (and such as would be so recognized in England), the buildings thus constructed stood absolutely uninjured in the midst of chaotic ruin.
Page 15 - merely the continuous forward movement, of a change in the relative positions, a relative displacement and replacement of the integrant molecules or particles of a determinate volume affecting, in succession, the whole mass of material. Ordinary sounds are waves of this sort in
Page 16 - may be attended with sound and tidal waves, dependent upon the impulse and upon circumstances of position as to sea and land.