 The occasional rapid motion of fields, with the strange effects produced on any opposing substance, exhibited by such immense bodies, is one of the most striking objects this country presents, and is certainly the most terrific. They not unfrequently...  Journal of Science and the Arts - Síða 2191818Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Edmund Burke - 1819 - 822 síður
...packs, to the utmost extent to which ships have penetrated. On the tremendous Concussions tf Fieldi. The occasional rapid motion of fields, with the strange...direction of movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons in weight, meeting with resistance, when in motion,... | |
 | 1819 - 550 síður
...strikmg objects this country presents, and is certainly the most ter» rific. They not unfrequcntly acquire a rotatory movement, whereby their circumference...direction of movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons in weight,» meeting with resistance, when in motion,... | |
 | Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - 1818 - 516 síður
...sheets of ice, but on the ice of close packs, to the utmost extent to which ships have penetrated. On the tremendous Concussions of Fields. The occasional...direction of movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons in weight*, meeting with resistence, when in motion,... | |
 | 1818 - 798 síður
...packs, to the utmost extent to which ships have penetrated. On the tremendous Concussions of Fu-ldt. The occasional rapid motion of fields, with the strange...direction of movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons iu weight, meeting with resistance, when in motion.... | |
 | John Laing (Surgeon) - 1818 - 190 síður
...the strange effects produced on any opposing sub-. stance, exhibited by such bodies, is one of th« most striking objects this country presents, and is...direction of movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons in weight*, meeting with resistance> •when in motion,... | |
 | 1818 - 472 síður
...such immense bodies, is one of the most striking objects this country presents, and is cer" tainly the most terrific. They not unfrequently acquire a...shock. The weaker field is crushed with an awful noise ; sometimes the destruction is mutual: pieces of huge dimensions and weight, are not unfrequently piled... | |
 | 1818 - 784 síður
...presents, and is certainly the most terrific. They not unfrequently acquire a rotatory movement,whereby their circumference attains a velocity of several...shock. The weaker field is crushed with an awful noise; sometimes the destruction is mutual : pieces of huge dimensions and weight, are not unfrequently piled... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 síður
...bodies, is one of the most striking objects this country presents, and is certainly the most terrihc. They not unfrequently acquire a rotatory movement,...rest, or more especially with a contrary direction or movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons in weight,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1818 - 1264 síður
...terrific. They not unfrequently acquire a rotatory movement, whereby their circumference attains n velocity of several miles per hour. A field, thus...direction of movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions of tons in weight, meeting with resistance, when in motion,... | |
 | 1820 - 774 síður
...unfrequently acquire a rotatory movement, whereby their circumference attains a velocity of severa] mileq per hour. A field thus in motion, coming in contact with another at rest, or more especially with another having a contrary movement, produces a dreadful shock. A body of more than ten thousand millions... | |
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