The Natural History of Common Salt: Its Manufacture, Appearance, Uses, and Dangers, in Various Parts of the WorldCharles Tomlinson, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1850 - 358 páginas |
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Página 19 - And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out : it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire : 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Página 20 - Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted: it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Página 25 - And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Página 23 - All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and. thy daughters with thee, as a due for ever : it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
Página 338 - ... state for some weeks, probably from two to three months. From about that time the plants had been observed to droop ; but it was not until nearly the whole of a valuable stock had been destroyed, that any extraordinary cause of the evil was suspected. To place it beyond doubt that the water was really the cause of the mischief, twelve healthy fuchsias were procured from a distance and divided into two parts ; half being watered morning and evening with the water in question, and the others with...
Página 224 - The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization. A prop, or buttress, connects it with the mountain behind, and the whole is covered with debris of a light stone colour. Its peculiar shape is doubtless attributable to the action of the winter rains.
Página 237 - ... and sank back again to lethargy. The solitude, the scene, my own thoughts, were too much ; I felt, as I sat thus, steering the drowsily-moving boat, as if I were a Charon, ferrying, not the souls, but the bodies, of the departed and the damned, over some infernal lake, and could endure it no longer; but breaking from my listlessness, ordered the sails to be furled and the oars resumed — action seemed better than such unnatural stupor.
Página 193 - ... feet in a perfectly regular manner, and as it were pushed up, by a force beneath ; which suddenly exploded with a dull noise, and scattered about a volume of black mud in every direction. After an interval of two or three, or sometimes four or five seconds, the hemispherical body of mud or earth rose and exploded again. In the same manner this volcanic ebullition goes on without interruption, throwing up a globular body of mud, and dispersing it with violence through the neighbouring plain.
Página 219 - There were a few bushes, their stems partly buried in the water, and their leafless branches incrusted with salt, which sparkled as trees do at home when the sun shines upon them after a heavy sleet. Such an image, presented to the mind, while the frame was weltering with the heat, was indeed like " holding a fire in the hand and thinking of the frosty Caucasus.
Página 339 - ... continually watered with a weak solution of salt, it gradually accumulates in it until the soil becomes sufficiently contaminated to be unfit to support vegetable life. In either case an interesting subject of inquiry is suggested — What is the weakest solution of salt which can produce in any measure this poisonous effect ? — or, in other words, at what degree of dilution does the danger cease ? For salt is an important natural constituent of much spring water, quite independent of any infiltration...