The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Том 281860 |
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... Italy , but a feeling of indifference was displayed to the practical science of Alexandria . This repugnance of the Roman mind at home to ma- thematics and physics , together with the prevalence of its military despotism abroad , which ...
... Italy , but a feeling of indifference was displayed to the practical science of Alexandria . This repugnance of the Roman mind at home to ma- thematics and physics , together with the prevalence of its military despotism abroad , which ...
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... Italy in 1497 , studying the science under Dominic Maria , and settled for a time at Rome as a teacher of mathematics , where he established a considerable reputation . His uncle , who was a dignified ecclesiastic , bishop of Ermeland ...
... Italy in 1497 , studying the science under Dominic Maria , and settled for a time at Rome as a teacher of mathematics , where he established a considerable reputation . His uncle , who was a dignified ecclesiastic , bishop of Ermeland ...
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... Italy , that it is more than probable that Galileo regarded the service imposed upon him as a church ceremony , through which , as a son of the church , he was bound to go , without being responsible for its demerits . The sorrows that ...
... Italy , that it is more than probable that Galileo regarded the service imposed upon him as a church ceremony , through which , as a son of the church , he was bound to go , without being responsible for its demerits . The sorrows that ...
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... Italy by Galileo . The procession had been joined by Holland , France , and England , before the middle of the seventeenth century ; but it will be impracticable to record the labours , or even mention the names , of those who were then ...
... Italy by Galileo . The procession had been joined by Holland , France , and England , before the middle of the seventeenth century ; but it will be impracticable to record the labours , or even mention the names , of those who were then ...
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... Italy , and the southern provinces of France , Germany , and Russia . It was well observed at various stations by the leading astronomers of the age . M. Arago awaited its occurrence at Perpignan ; M. Valz at Marseilles ; M. Petit at ...
... Italy , and the southern provinces of France , Germany , and Russia . It was well observed at various stations by the leading astronomers of the age . M. Arago awaited its occurrence at Perpignan ; M. Valz at Marseilles ; M. Petit at ...
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Стр. 681 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Стр. 544 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Стр. 72 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Стр. 563 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Стр. 714 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Стр. 320 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Стр. 256 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Стр. 203 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God ! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer ! and let the ice-plains echo, God ! God!
Стр. 684 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Стр. 5 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears— soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony...