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A poem, in blank verse, on a violent storm, attended with thunder and lightning. To which is added, A poem on death; to Palmera. By Edward Stephens.
Stephens, Edward, active 1747-1765.Date: 1751- Books
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The sinner's thundering warning-piece. Being an account of the great damage done by the late dreadful thunder and lightning, on the 16th of July last, both in city and country; ... As also how one Mr. Woollar ... was struck dead ... To which is added, a sermon preach'd a Mr Woollar's funeral ... by Mr. William Elemy, ...
Date: [1703?]- Books
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A second volume of philosophical meditations, with divine inferences: containing a view of 1. The primitive purity of the creation. 2. The Change that ensued upon Man's Disobedience. 3. The further Changes that succeeded the Deluge, and Lamech's Prophecy concerning his Son Noah considered; with a new Definition of the present Phaenomena of our Atmosphere in the Nature of Lightning in a clear Sky, Fire-Balls, Fire-Drakes, Shooting-Stars, and Lights in the North, with Tempests of Thunder and Lightning. 4. The last and final Change to be expected, after which all Subjection to future Change will be wholly remov'd. 5. The state of the blessed in a new heaven, and a New Earth. The whole being interspersed with Divine Inferences and many useful Curiosities never before taken notice of by any other Author. The Preface containing, besides other things, the Author's Opinion of the Millennium; as not being a Temporal Reign of Christ, &c. With a postscript on the nature of water-spouts. By Benjamin Parker, Author of the last Philosophical Meditations, and Longitude at Sea.
Parker, Benjamin, -1747.Date: MDCCXXXV. [1735]- Books
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The curious traveller. Being A Choice Collection of very remarkable Histo-Tories, Voyages, Travels, &c. Digested into Familiar Letters and Conversations. Containing among many other Particulars, the following: The Spanish Cruelties in the West-Indies. A curious Account of the Snow Alps. A Tragical Account relating to a Shipwicck. Of the Troubles and Conspiracies at the Russian Court. Of the Burning Mountain. Of the Common-Wealth of Bees. An Account of Crocodiles. Curiosities discover'd at Hanover. An Account of a terrible Earth-Quake. The Siege of Prom. Mihometans in the Indies. A Description of the City of Hamburgh. The White Island. St. Mark at Venice. Bull-Baiting at Venice. Fortune-Telling ridiculed. A curious Monument in Persia. An Hospital for Monkeys. A mock Sea Fight on the River Thames. The Ruins of Persepolis. The History of Snow. Observations on the Art of Painting. An Insurrection at Muscow. A Widow burns herself for the Death of her Husband. A Stratagem of a Negro at Fida. Maurice Island. An Account of Thunder and Lightning. The Rasbut Robbers, &c. Adorn'd with Cuts.
Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings. / By John Leigh, Jun., Esq.
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: 1835- Pictures
A monkey-god in the sky sends down thunder and lightning and a giant axe on to a village; fire ascends from below. Watercolour by N. Goullet, ca. 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: [1955?]Reference: 2958218iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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Remarks on Mr. Brydone's account of a remarkable thunder-storm in Scotland. By the Right Honourable Charles Earl Stanhope, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Feb. 15, 1787.
Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Pictures
A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 2491310i- Pictures
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A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 524682i- Books
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A true and faithful relation of the damage that was done by the thunder and lightning to the parish church and steeple of Crocomb, near Stogomer in the county of Somerset.
Norris, WilliamDate: [1724?]- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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An historical miscellany of the curiosities and rarities in nature and art. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanos, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, thunder, lightning, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature.
Date: [1794-1800]- Pictures
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Electricity: electrical equipment, batteries, etc. Engraving, 1819, by W. Lowry.
Date: 1819Reference: 473799i- Books
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An essay on the cause of lightning, and the manner by which the thunder-clouds become possessed of their electricity, Deduced From Known Facts And Properties Of That Matter. To which are added, Plain directions for constructing and erecting safe conductors.
Simmons, John, active 1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
And the dawn came up like thunder : Leo Rawlings, prisoner of Japan and war artist 1941-1945 / previously unpublished colour paintings by Leo Rawlings of his war pictures and edited writings ; edited by Justin Nash and Dr Jacquie Mullender ; photographs, new commentary and maps by Dr Nigel Stanley.
Rawlings, Leo, 1918-1990Date: 2015- Books
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Honey-Moon. To which are added, Melting Cælia, or, love a thunder-clap; The catechising puritan; The bridal brawl; The bride's out-cry at man's labour; The First Onset; Home Question; On a Man's Long Nose; Caelia's Mole; and other love-poems.
Date: M.DCC.XXVI. [1726]- Books
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The triumph of death, and the uncertainty of life, considered. A universal funeral sermon: being the substance of two very alarming discourses preached on ... the late thunder and lightning, which happened on Sunday, March 22. ... By an eminent Gospel minister of this city.
Eminent Gospel minister of this city (London).Date: 1772- Books
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A short history of the famous Constitution, or Bull Unigenitus, thunder'd out by Pope Clement XI. against that incomparable work, call'd, Moral reflections upon the New Testament, by Father Quesnel. ... Done from the French. To which is added, Father Quesnel's confession of faith ...
Date: 1720- Books
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Meteors, or, A plain description of all kind of meteors : as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy, briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, sprigs, stones, and metalls / by W.F.
Fulke, William, 1538-1589Date: 1655- Books
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All things come alike to all: a sermon, on Eccles. IX. 1, 2 and 3 verses. Occasioned by a person's being struck by the lightning of thunder. Preached at Philadelphia, July the 28th, 1745. By Gilbert Tennent, A.M. Minister of the Gospel in Philadelphia. [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764.Date: 1745- Books
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Pathetic odes. The Duke of Richmond's Dog thunder, and The widow's pigs-a tale: The poor soldier of Tilbury Fort: ode to certain Foreign soldiers: Ode to Eastern Tyrants: The frogs and Jupiter-a fable, The diamond pin and candle-a fable, The Sun and the peacock-a fable. By Peter Pindar, Esquire.
Pindar, Peter, 1738-1819.Date: 1794- Books
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Meteors; or, a plain description of all kind of meteors, as well fiery and ayrie, as watry and earthy. Briefly manifesting the causes of all blazing-stars, shooting-stars, flames in the aire, thunder, lightning, earthquakes, rain, dew, snow, clouds, springs, stones, and metalls / By W[illiam] F[ulke] Doctor in Divinity.
Fulke, William, 1538-1589.Date: 1670- Books
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An extract of a letter from a friend on board His Majesty's ship the Thunderer; to his brother at Sunderland. Dated, Gibraltar, December 28th. 1761.
Friend on board His Majesty's ship the Thunderer.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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First elements of astronomy and natural philosophy; wherein the knowledge of those sciences are rendered more simple, and the solar system described in a familiar Manner: also the powers of electricity, thunder, lightening [sic], meteors, winds, heat, cold, &c. With suitable reflections on the works of providence. Fourth edition, corrected. For the use of private families, and public schools.
Date: 1798- Books
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A Strange and wonderful relation of a clap of thunder : which lately set fire to the dwelling-house of one Widow Rosingrean, living in the town of Ewloe, in the parish of Howerden in the county of Flint ... : also another relation of a sow of one John Bartington's of Broad-Lane in the same town.
Date: 1677