 | Hugh Miller - 1849 - 344 pagina’s
...which we were previously unacquainted, is revealed to us as an active disturber of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive...repose of nature vanishes ; and we feel transported into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound, — the faintest motion of the air, — arrests... | |
 | Hugo Reid - 1850 - 156 pagina’s
...by which we had clung to a belief in the immobility of the solid parts of the earth." — " A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive...repose of nature vanishes, and we feel transported into a realm of unknown destructive forces." 241. Allied to the earthquake, but of a more regular and... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 394 pagina’s
...which we are previously unacquainted, is revealed to us as an active disturbance of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive faith in the repose of.nature vanishes, and we feel transported, as it were, into a realm of unknown destructive forces.... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pagina’s
...which we are previously unacquainted is revealed to us as an active disturbance of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive...vanishes, and we feel transported, as it were, into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound — the faintest motion in the air — arrests our... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 446 pagina’s
...which we are previously unacquainted, is revealed to us as an active disturbance of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life; our deceptive...vanishes, and we feel transported, as it were, into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound—the faintest motion in the air—arrests our attention,... | |
 | 1852 - 524 pagina’s
...which we are previously unacquainted is revealed to us as an active disturbance of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life; our deceptive...vanishes, and we feel transported, as it were, into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound, the faintest motion in the air, arrests our attention,... | |
 | 1852 - 390 pagina’s
...which we are previously unacquainted is revealed to us as an active disturbance of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive...vanishes, and we feel transported, as it were, into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound, the faintest motion in the air, arrests our attention,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 pagina’s
...which we were previously unacquainted, is revealed to us as an active disturber of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life : our deceptive...repose of nature vanishes : and we feel transported into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound, — the faintest motion of the air, — arrests... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pagina’s
...which we were previously unacquainted, is revealed to us as an active disturber of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life : our deceptive...repose of nature vanishes : and we feel transported into a realm of unknown destructive forces. Every sound, — the faintest motion of the air, — arrests... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 378 pagina’s
...which we were previously unacquainted, is revealed to us as an active disturber of stability. A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive...repose of nature vanishes ; and we feel transported into a realm of unkrown destructive forces Every sound — the fainter motion jf the air — arrests... | |
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A moment destroys the illusion of a whole life ; our deceptive faith in the repose of nature vanishes, and we feel transported, as it were, into a realm of unknown destructive forces. 
