 | 1822 - 818 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the rain, and the rushing of the rising streams." This deluge, which inundates... | |
 | 1824 - 514 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time, the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...the rain, and the rushing of the rising streams.' — Account of CdbuL On this subject we shall only subjoin the following list of some of the principal... | |
 | Hindus - 1834 - 444 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...fail to strike the most insensible heart with awe." Account of the Kingdom of Caubul. through which the rays of the sun can seldom force their way for... | |
 | 1834 - 472 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...fail to strike the most insensible heart with awe." Account of the Kingdom of Caubul. through which the rays of the sun can seldom force their way for... | |
 | 1834 - 508 pages
...vivid and successive flushes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time, the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible h«art with awe."— Account of the Kingdom ofCaubul. the rains alone that render India a habitable... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the hrightness'of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...tremendous crash as can scarcely fail to strike the rnost insensible heart with awe." Account of the Kingdom of Caubul. through which the rays of the sun... | |
 | 1834 - 92 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...silenced by some nearer peal, which bursts on the car with such a sudden and tremendous crash as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible heart... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 438 pages
...never ceases to mil, and is ouly silenced by some nearer peal, which bursts on the ear in such a sadden and tremendous crash as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible heart with atve. At length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continned pouring of the rain, and... | |
 | Mountstuart Elphinstone (hon.) - 1839 - 466 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...length the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard but the continual pouring of the rain, and the rushing of the rising streams. The next day presents a gloomy... | |
 | Charles Ellms - 1841 - 606 pages
...vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of day. During all this time, the distant thunder never ceases to roll,...is only silenced by some nearer peal, which bursts upon the ear with such a sudden and tremendous crash, as can scarcely fail to strike the most insensible... | |
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... intermission : sometimes it only illuminates the sky, and shows the clouds near the horizon ; at others, it discovers the distant hills, and again leaves all in darkness, when in an instant it re-appears in vivid and successive flashes, and exhibits... 
