...seiche). Seiches were observed in Scotland and Sweden following the Lisbon quake of 1755. Similarly, the Alaskan tremor in 1964 produced seiches in ... ... have quakes at all! Some notable earthquakes in history: Lisbon, November 1, 1755, 09:40 AM (All Saints Day) Property damage: 12,000 houses... ...e water recede and expose the seafloor. This happened in Lisbon Port on November 1, 1755. A few minutes later, the displaced waters return with ene... ...apel of the Palazzo Vecchio della Signoria, Florence's town hall). His first large paintings were left unfinished ("The Adoration of the Magi" and ...

... declining foot. 111 Pain. Tis common: 112 A thousand morall Paintings I can shew, 113 That shall demonstrate these quicke blowes o... ...pare your Oathes: 1754 Ile trust to your Conditions, be whores still. 1755 And he whose pious breath seekes to conuert you, 1756 Be strong...

...radiance than the Heaven of Day; And on the jasper walls around, there lay Paintings, the poesy of mightiest thought, _600 W... ... _55 I will pile up my silver and my gold; My costly robes, paintings, and tapestries; My parchments and all records of my wealth, And ...

...om- prises no less than 2,300 pages in folio. After the author’s death, in 1755, the secret of his lifelong labour was revealed; and the Duc de Choise... ...cabinet of the King, and admiring in the tone of a con- noisseur some fine paintings of the Crucifixion by the first masters, he remarked that they we... ...utbuildings; to furnish it with magnificence, to spare neither gilding nor paintings, and to surround the whole with the most beautiful gardens. She m...

...turbed the boy’s peace of mind for the first time. On the 1st of November, 1755, the earthquake at Lisbon took place, and spread a prodigious alarm ov... ... had, by way of conclusion, done the best he could, having represented, in paintings to be placed over the doors, the four elements as children and bo... ...which, through a very long and assiduous prac- tice, came to his aid. Both paintings were now ready; and we were thoroughly delighted with the last, w... ...ven at the back part with an entire window of plate-glass, ornamented with paintings, lacquer, carved work, and gilding, covered with red embroidered ... ... but too full of the conviction, that, even in and about the collection of paintings, much must yet remain hidden from me. Thus I took the excellence ...