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" ... ler upon the Thames. It is fcarcely credible to what " height they will mount ; which is yet precifely true, " and a thing eafily to be obferved by one that fhall " fix his eye fome time on any part of the heavens, " the white web, at a vaft diftance,... "
Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems - Page 96
by Charlotte Smith - 1797 - 117 pages
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Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles: Embellished with ...

Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1793 - 418 pages
...their courfe, and perhaps mount and defcend at pleafure : and to the purpofe of rowing themfelves along the air, it is obfervable that they ever take their...that is, their head looking a contrary way, like a fculler upoa the Thames. It is fcarce credible to what height they will mount ; which yet is precifely...
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Elegiac Sonnets: And Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith. Vol.II.

Charlotte Smith - 1797 - 188 pages
...being " carried into the air by external force ; but they can, " in cafe the wind fuffer them, ftcer their courfe, per" haps mount and defcend at pleafure...is yet precifely true, " and a thing eafily to be obfervecl by one that fhall " fix his eye Come time on any part of the heavens, " the white web, at...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 474 pages
...their courfe, and perhaps mount and defeend at pleafurc : and to the purpofe of rowing themfelves along the air, it is obfervable that they ever take their...that is, their head looking a contrary way, like a fculler upon the Thames. It is fcarce credible to what height they will mount ; which yet is precifdy...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge ..., Volume 2

Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...;ind to the purpofe o: rowing tiiemfelvts along the air, it is obfenalile that tney cvtr take thtir flight backwards; that is, their head looking a contrary way, like a fculkr upon the Tlisr.i.-a. It is fcarce credible to what lieight Ihry will mount ; which yet is prrcifely...
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The Poems of Charlotte Smith

Charlotte Smith - 1993 - 370 pages
...and descend at pleasure: and to the purpose of rowing themselves along in the air, it is observable that they ever take their flight backwards, that is, their head looking a contrary way like a sculler upon the Thames. It is scarcely credible to what height they will mount; which is yet precisely...
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