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" ... of the English thermometer. Longwood stands on a level height, which is tolerably extensive on the eastern side, and pretty near the coast. Continual, and frequently violent gales, always blowing in the same quarter, sweep the surface of the ground.... "
Memorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of ... - Page 28
by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1823
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

English literature - 1823 - 598 pages
...met on this occasion, and for the present behaved as if reconciled. The place is thus described. " The difference of the temperature between this place...wind, clouds, and rain; and the temperature is of mat mild and monotonous kind, which, perhaps, after all, is rather conducive to ennui than disease....
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal, Volume 5

1823 - 608 pages
...met on this occasion, and for the present behaved aa if reconciled. The place is thus described. " The difference of the temperature between this place...and sudden falls of rain complete the impossibility ofdistinguishing any regular season. But there is no regular course of seasons at Longwood. The whole...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 7

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 pages
...the eastern side, and pretty near the coast. Continual, and frequently violent gales, always blowmg in the same quarter, sweep the surface of the ground....and monotonous kind, which, perhaps, after all, is miner conducive to ennui than disease. Notwithstanding the abundant rains, the grass rapidly disappears,...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 5

1823 - 622 pages
...between this place and the valley where we landed, is marked by a variation of at least ten degreei of the English thermometer. Longwood stands on a level...rain complete the impossibility of distinguishing any Tegular season. But there is no regular course of seasons at Longwood. The whole year presents a continuance...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 7

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 598 pages
...The sun, though it rarely appears, nevertheless exercises its influence on the atmosphere, which ˇз apt to produce disorders of the liver, if due precaution...Longwood. The whole year presents a continuance of wi:id, clouds, and rain j and the temperature is of that mild and monotonous kind, which, perhaps,...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...candour in judging of the viands that were set before them ; and in j-udging of coffee, and bread and extensive on the eastern side, and pretty near the...atmosphere, which is apt to produce disorders of the liver, butter, &c. as in other matters of if due precaution be not observed. taste, there is no estimating...
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The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Volume 3

William Hazlitt - France - 1847 - 492 pages
...Continual and frequently violent winds blow regularly from the same quarter. The sun, though rarely seen, nevertheless exercises its influence on the atmosphere, which is apt to produce disorders on the liver. Heavy and sudden falls of rain inundate the ground ; and there is no settled course of...
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Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, Volume 1

Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1855 - 434 pages
...the surface of the ground. The sun, though it rarely appears, nevertheless exercises its influenc* on the atmosphere, which is apt to produce disorders...Longwood. The whole year presents a continuance of wind, cloud?, and rain ; and the temperature is of that mild and monotonous kind which, perhaps, after all,...
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, ed. by R.W. Phipps, Volume 3

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - 1885 - 610 pages
...Continual and frequently violent winds blow regularly from the same quarter. The sun, though rarely seen, nevertheless exercises its influence on the atmosphere, which is apt to produce disorders in the liver. Heavy and sudden falls of rain inundate the ground, and there is no settled course of...
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Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, Volume 1

Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases - 1890 - 552 pages
...tolerably extensive on the eastern side, and pretty near the coast. Continual and frequently violent gale?, always blowing in the same quarter, sweep the surface...of wind, clouds, and rain ; and the temperature is oi that mild and monotonous kind which, perhaps, after all, is rather conducive to ennui than disease....
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