"Horizontality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... starting from the generator, ending at the engendered (2), expressing by its horizontality the co-equality of ...
— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various
... Roads of Glen Roy. If they do not belong to the Recent epoch, they are at least posterior in date to the present outline of mountain and glen, and to the time when every one of the smaller burns ran in their present channels, though some of them have since been slightly deepened. The almost perfect horizontality, moreover, of the roads, one of which is continuous for about 20 miles from east to west, and 12 miles from north to south, shows that since the era of their formation no change has taken place in the relative levels of different ...
— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell
... remarked, that all these sedimentary formations are stratified. In level countries, as might be expected, the disposition of the layers is nearly horizontal. In approaching mountainous countries, this horizontality, generally speaking, ceases; finally, on the sides of mountains, some of these layers are very much inclined; they even ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various |
