tropick

[78] The tropick is the point where the sun turns back.

Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

Whatsoever feels not the warm gale and gentle ventilation of this spirit (though I feel his pulse), I dare not say he lives; for truly without this, to me, there is no heat under the tropick; nor any light, though I dwelt in the body of the sun.

Religio Medici 2007

And yet, in likelihood, it may be so; for without all question, it being extended from the tropick of Capricorn to the circle Antarctick, and lying as it doth in the temperate zone, cannot chuse but yeeld in time some flourishing kingdoms to succeeding ages, as America did unto the

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

_ The Captain gave the people a case bottle of rum, as a tropick bottle for his pinnace.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

I have possessed for five years the regulation of weather, and the distribution of the seasons: the sun has listened to my dictates, and passed from tropick to tropick by my direction; the clouds, at my call, have poured their waters, and the Nile has overflowed at my command; I have restrained the rage of the dog-star, and mitigated the fervours of the crab.

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia 1803

Many complaints do vexation and desire extort from those exiled tyrants of the town, against the inexorable sun, who pursues his course without any regard to love or beauty; and visits either tropick at the stated time, whether shunned or courted, deprecated or implored.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

Whatsoever feels not the warm gale and gentle ventilation of this spirit (though I feel his pulse), I dare not say he lives; for truly without this, to me, there is no heat under the tropick; nor any light, though I dwelt in the body of the sun.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

But now the fun at neither tropick ftays A longer time than his alternate rays In fuch proportion heat and luftre give, a 15

The Works of the English Poets 1779

The northern temperate sume ic ter - noioated by the tropick of Cancer and the

A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ... 1768

Nor are these disquisitions and conjectures to be considered altogether as wanton sports of wit, or vain shows of learning; our language is well known not to be primitive or self-originated, but to have adopted words of every generation, and, either for the supply of its necessities, or the increase of its copiousness, to have received additions from very distant regions; so that in search of the progenitors of our speech, we may wander from the tropick to the frozen zone, and find some in the valleys of Palestine, and some upon the rocks of Norway.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746