First Steps in General Knowledge, Volumes 1-2Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1847 - Astronomy |
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... salt water . Is the whole of that great ocean you were speaking of entirely salt ? " " There are different degrees of saltness in the ocean , but the general proportion is quite equal to what you have tasted . Near the equator the ...
... salt water . Is the whole of that great ocean you were speaking of entirely salt ? " " There are different degrees of saltness in the ocean , but the general proportion is quite equal to what you have tasted . Near the equator the ...
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... salt behind , that being too heavy to ascend . This evaporation , as it is called , is going on constantly all over the ocean , although not so rapidly as at the equator , and by this means , principally , the clouds are formed ...
... salt behind , that being too heavy to ascend . This evaporation , as it is called , is going on constantly all over the ocean , although not so rapidly as at the equator , and by this means , principally , the clouds are formed ...
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... salt . How is that ? " " You are not quite correct , " said his father , " in thinking that the rivers are all of fresh water . There are salt springs in many places ; and though these do not make the neighbouring rivers taste salt ...
... salt . How is that ? " " You are not quite correct , " said his father , " in thinking that the rivers are all of fresh water . There are salt springs in many places ; and though these do not make the neighbouring rivers taste salt ...
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... salt than in other places . ' " The waters of the ocean must be great tra- vellers , " said Henry , " if they go up into the clouds in vapour , and then go miles away , and fall down again in rain to swell the brooks and rivers that ...
... salt than in other places . ' " The waters of the ocean must be great tra- vellers , " said Henry , " if they go up into the clouds in vapour , and then go miles away , and fall down again in rain to swell the brooks and rivers that ...
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... salt than the ocean , while the Mediter- ranean is somewhat salter . " " What is the reason of that ? " asked Mary . " The Baltic receives a great supply of fresh water from numerous rivers ; and it has also , in calm weather , a ...
... salt than the ocean , while the Mediter- ranean is somewhat salter . " " What is the reason of that ? " asked Mary . " The Baltic receives a great supply of fresh water from numerous rivers ; and it has also , in calm weather , a ...
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Popular passages
Page 9 - Thou coveredst it with the deep As with a garment : The waters stood above the mountains. At Thy rebuke They fled ; At the voice of Thy thunder They hasted away.
Page 11 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 191 - O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Page 7 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so.
Page 200 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 10 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 14 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 9 - They go up by the mountains; They go down by the valleys Unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 29 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters ; These men see the works of the LORD : and His wonders in the deep.
Page 201 - In his days shall the righteous flourish ; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.