The world of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science and art. [Publ. in pts. With] Correspondence [publ. in 11 suppls. Wanting the wrappers].1874 |
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ancient animal animalcules Anne Bonny appearance Aye-aye beautiful birds boat body bones British Museum called cause centre century colour columns coral covered creature curious David Brewster depth diameter Dinotherium distance earth EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE Egypt electricity elephant eyes Fakirs fall feet high fell fire fish flame glacier glass GRACE DARLING hand head heat height horses hour hundred ichthyosaurus inches insects iron island kind king known Koh-i-noor lake land length light lived magical square magnet Mausolus miles minute motion mountain mouth nature nearly observed once passed piece PITCH LAKE plants PORTLAND VASE produced rain remains remarkable river rock round says seen shell ship side snow sound stone stream supposed surface Thuggee tion traveller tree vast vegetable vessel volcano waterspout waves Welwitschia whole wind wonderful
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Side 11 - Under water dearth, Under snow bread. March in Janiveer, January in March I fear. If January calends be summerly gay, ' Twill be winterly weather till the calends of May. The blackest month in all the year, Is the month of Janiveer. WONDERFUL OPTICAL DELUSION. THE accompanying cut exhibits a somewhat singular optical delusion with which it is possible some of our readers may be unacquainted, though it is frequently made use of by practical builders, in arranging their courses of stone for arches...
Side 362 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Side 110 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Side 308 - Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal: the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption; for the mazes of interwoven lines and...
Side 154 - ... finger. It was not one sustained note, but a multitude of tiny sounds, each clear and distinct in itself; the sweetest treble mingling with the lowest bass.
Side 378 - At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast. Straight hover round the fair her airy band; Some, as she...
Side 286 - A most remarkable feature in the bite of the tsetse is its perfect harmlessness in man and wild animals, and even calves so long as they continue to suck the cows.
Side 242 - The friend, in the mean while, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant, over cities or mountains, seas or deserts.
Side 412 - In the cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest whisper is borne with perfect distinctness from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of 250 feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place of the confessional.
Side 388 - ... eggs with them. At this time the male bird goes to sea and collects food for the female, which becomes very fat. After the young is hatched, both parents go to sea, and bring home food for it ; it soon becomes so fat as scarcely to be able to walk, the old birds getting very thin.