 | 1855 - 990 pages
...two or three miles before him, he will be often as many hours in reaching. But it is after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and...Persian summer evening. It is not too much to say that, were it not for the interference of the moon, we should have seventy-five nights in the three... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1853 - 584 pages
...striped with ribbons, very much like the meridians on an artificial globe. " But it is after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and...of the world, I have never seen anything like the splendour of a Persian summer evening. It is not too much to say that, were it not for the interference... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1854 - 412 pages
...striped with ribbons, very much like Ihe meridians on an artificial globe. But it is after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and...Persian summer evening. It is not too much to say that, were it not for the interference of the moon, we should have seventy-five nights in the three... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 588 pages
...striped with ribbons, very much like the meridians on an artificial globe. But it is after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and...Persian summer evening. It is not too much to say, that, were it not for the interference of the moon we should have seventy-five nights in the three... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1854 - 414 pages
...striped with ribbons, very much like the meridians on an artificial globe. But it is after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and...Persian summer evening. It is not too much to say that, were it not for the interference of the moon, we should have seventy -five nights in the three... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...striped with ribbons, very much like the meridians on an artificial globe. But it [A after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and beauty. Though accustomed to wateh the heavens in different parts of the world, I have never seen anything like the splendor of... | |
 | Science - 1855 - 480 pages
...or three miles before him, he will be often as many hours in reaching. • But it is after nightfall that our sky appears in its highest brilliancy and beauty. Though accustomed to waich the heavens in different parts of the world, 1 have never seen anything like the splendor of... | |
 | Edward Hull - Geomorphology - 1888 - 382 pages
...important influence upon the climate of Eastern America, the British Islands and Western Europe. It is not too much to say that, were it not for the calorific effect of this stream on the temperature of these latter countries, their climate would closely... | |
 | T. E. Toomey - Decorations of honor - 1895 - 308 pages
...proved too strong for even 24-pounders, and the mutineers were safe until pounced upon by the 93rd. It is not too much to say that were it not for the prowess displayed by Captain Peel's officers and men, Lucknow would have been another Delhi, both at... | |
 | Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club - Natural history - 1907 - 398 pages
...greatest harmony exists between the local societies and the museum, to the advantage of both. Perhaps it is not too much to say that were it not for the fact that the local scientific societies took an active interest in the public museum at a time when,... | |
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I have never seen anything like the splendor of a Persian summer evening. It is not too much to say, that, were it not for the interference of the moon we should have seventy-five nights in the three summer months, superior for purposes of observation... 
