 We have high, towers, the highest about half a mile in height, and some of them likewise set upon high mountains, so that the vantage of the hill with the tower is, in the highest of them, three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region;...  Popular Science Monthly - Page 1301903Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...high mountains ; so that the vantage of the hill " with the tower, is in the highest of them three " miles at least. And these places we call the upper...these " towers, according to their several heights and situa" tions, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and " for the view of divers meteors; as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...high mountains ; so that the vantage of the " hill with the tower, is in the highest of them three " miles at least. And these places we call the upper...these " towers, according to their several heights and si" tuations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, " and for the view of divers meteors ; as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...hill with the tower is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region. We use these towers, according to their several...winds, rain, snow, hail, and some of the fiery meteors. We have great lakes, both salt and fresh ; whereof we have use for the fish and fowl. We use them also... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...high mountains ; so that the vantage of the " hill with the tower, is in the highest of them three " miles at least. And these places we call the upper...these " towers, according to their several heights and si" tuations, for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, " and for the view of divers meteors ; as... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...hill with the lower is in the highest of them three miles at least. And these places we call the upper region. We use these towers, according to their several...for insolation, refrigeration, conservation, and for tlie view of divers meteors, as winds, rain, snow, hail, and some of the fiery meteors. After having... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - Utopias - 1845 - 356 pages
...high mountains, so that the advantage of the hill with the tower is, in the highest of them, three miles at least. And these places we call ' the upper...these towers, according to their several heights and "seem strange;" but nevertheless overcame his repugnance to the strangeness, for the purpose of exhibiting... | |
 | Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...high mountains, so that the advantage of the hill with the tower is, in the highest of them, three miles at least. And these places we call ' the upper...these towers, according to their several heights and " seem strange;" but nevertheless overcame his repugnance to the strangeness, for the purpose of exhibiting... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...upon high mountains ; so that the vantage of the hill with the tower is, in the highest of them, three miles at least ; and these places we call the upper...conservation, and for the view of divers meteors, as wintis, rain, snow, hail, and some of the fiery meteors also ; and upon them, in some places, are dwellings... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...upon high mountains ; so that the vantage of the hill with the tower, is in the highest of them lane miles at least. And these places we call the upper region : accounting the air between the high plata and the low, as a middle region. We use then towers according to their several heights end stations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...tower is in the highest of them three miles at leant. And these places we call the upper region. We nee rtions." And for that cause he inyutreth the nature...a commonwealth, first in a family, .and the limpie winde, rain, snow, hail, and some of the fiery meteors. We have great lakes, both salt and fresh; whereof... | |
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