 ... very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height perhaps of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came...  Views of the Creation - Page 1131826 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with...from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 574 pages
...eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with...from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could... | |
 | William Paley - 1819 - 302 pages
...could reach, and always retiring with the water.— When this clood came to be examined-, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with young shrimps. intheactof-bounding into the air from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When the cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with...from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with...from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...could reach, and always retiring with the water. i When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be so much space, filled with young shrimps, in the act...from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this : if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1824 - 214 pages
...appeared like a cloud, was in reality a multitude of young shrimps, which were amusing themselves by bounding into the air, from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand." " I think he must have been disappointed, when his wonderful cloud proved to be only an assemblage... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with youne shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air from the shallow marein of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 440 pages
...eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space filled with young shrimps, in the act of bounding in the air, from the shallow margin of the water, or from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1828 - 126 pages
...this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space, filled with little 9 shrimps, in the act of bounding into the air from...from the wet sand. If any motion of a mute animal could express delight, it was this ; if they had meant to make signs of their happiness, they could... | |
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