 | Agriculture - 1829 - 786 pages
...larger the circle, the nearer the clouds; and consequently the more ready to fall. As to the rainbow, the old proverb is correct, — " A rainbow in the...warning : A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight." It may be thus explained : — A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the... | |
 | Science - 1828 - 456 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct : A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning ; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | Geology - 1828 - 450 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct : A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning ; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1828 - 596 pages
...the circle, the nearer the clouds, and, consequently, the more ready to fall. — As to the rainbow, the old proverb is correct — " A rainbow in the morning' is the shepherd's warning, "Л rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight." It may be thus explained. Л rainbow can only occur... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1829 - 436 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more r eady to fall. The old proverb is often correct: "A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning; A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight." I send you herewith the 13th number of this work, which will enable you to judge of its utility, [f... | |
 | English literature - 1829 - 832 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct : A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's...warning : A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - Agriculture - 1830 - 594 pages
...the circle the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. The old proverb is often correct: — A rainbow in the morning, is the shepherd's...warning ; A rainbow at night, is the shepherd's delight. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, retaining or depositing the rain, are opposite to the sun... | |
 | William Rhind - National history - 1830 - 376 pages
...experience, which an attenc tion to the influence of the -winds, &c. will serve to explain. One is, 'A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning, a rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.' Now it is obvious, that, in a country with the ocean to the west, nine-tenths of the rain will come... | |
 | William Rhind - Natural history - 1830 - 262 pages
...experience, which an attenc tion to the influence of the winds, &c. will serve to explain. One is, fA rainbow in the morning is the shepherd's warning, a rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight.' Now it is obvious, that, in a country with the ocean to the west, nine-tenths of the rain will come... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1831 - 598 pages
...the larger the circle, the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to fall. " Halieus. — I have often observed, that the old proverb is correct...shepherd's delight.' — Can you explain this omen ? " Physicus. — A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite... | |
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A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing, or depositing, the rain are opposite to the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are... 
