 It is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rains, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations. The air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the volcano...  A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 48by Oliver Goldsmith - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Ward - 1776 - 410 pages
...like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and luftains us when we are born. It is the only element around us that is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rains, opprefs him with hail, and drown him with intindations. The air ruflies in ftorms, prepares the tempeft,... | |
 | Robert Miln - Bible and science - 1786 - 434 pages
...reflection of a writer already cited f. * The earth alone of all the elements around us, * is no where found an enemy to man. The body •* of waters deluge him with rains ; opprefs him * with hail, and drown him with inundations. * The air rufhes in ftorms, prepares the... | |
 | Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...the benefa&or of man. The body of waters deluge him with rain, oppress him with hail and with snow, and drown him with inundations. The air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or lights up the fire of the volcano. But the earth, gentle and indulgent, and ever subservient to his wants, spreads... | |
 | Universalism - 1798 - 408 pages
...earth, as Pliny well obferves, that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and Curtains us when born. It is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy tq man. The body of waters deluge him with rains, opprefs him with hail, and drown him •with inundations.... | |
 | Lady - Children's stories - 1799 - 284 pages
...earth," fays Pliny, " that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and fuftains us when bora. It is this alone of all the elements around us that is never found an enemy 19 man. " The waters deluge him with rains, opprefs him with hail, and drown him with inundations.... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Medicine - 1799 - 560 pages
...valley. Ir is the earth, fays Pliny, that like a kind mfc ther, receives us at our birth, and fuftains us when born. It is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is rarely found an enemy to man. The body of waters deluge him with rains, opprefs rum with hail, and... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - Agriculture - 1803 - 638 pages
...sublime : " It is the earth that, like .a kind mother, re" ceives us at our birth, and sustains us when •" born. It is this alone, of all the elements..." man. The body of waters deluge him with " rains, opprefs him with hail, and drown him " with inundations; the air rushes in storms, " prepares the tempest,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...is this " Earth," says he, " that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, " and sustains us when born. It is this alone, of all the elements "...around us, that is never found an enemy to man. The waters de" luge him with rains, oppress him with hail, and drown him with " inundations. The air rushes... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...all the elements aroand us, that is never found an enemy to man. The waters deluge him with ruin-, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations...the air rushes in storms, prepares the tempest, or wakens the thunders. But the tarth, gentle and indulgent, ever subservient to the wants of man, spreads... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...It is this earth (says Pliny) which, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born. It is this alone, of all the elements around...is never found an enemy to man. The body of waters may deluge him with rain, oppress him with hail, and drown him with inundations. The air rushes in... | |
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