The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Том 281860 |
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... give prevalence and stability to opinions , while they were directly opposed to the testimony of the senses . Hence , instead of obtaining the suffrages of antiquity , they met with little acceptance ; and for eighteen centuries , the ...
... give prevalence and stability to opinions , while they were directly opposed to the testimony of the senses . Hence , instead of obtaining the suffrages of antiquity , they met with little acceptance ; and for eighteen centuries , the ...
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... give him a title to fame , which his theory , now exploded and obsolete , ought not to obscure . He was the first to point out the effect of the atmosphere in changing the direction of the rays of light ; and , though unable to ...
... give him a title to fame , which his theory , now exploded and obsolete , ought not to obscure . He was the first to point out the effect of the atmosphere in changing the direction of the rays of light ; and , though unable to ...
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... give to the earth the mobility suitable to its form , rather than that the universe , whose bounds we do not and cannot know , should revolve ? Why should we not confess that the diurnal revolution is apparent only in the heavens , and ...
... give to the earth the mobility suitable to its form , rather than that the universe , whose bounds we do not and cannot know , should revolve ? Why should we not confess that the diurnal revolution is apparent only in the heavens , and ...
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... give him a hold upon the admiration of posterity . It is melancholy to reflect , that he lived in misery , owing ever . to the difficulty of obtaining his pension as mathematician to 28 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
... give him a hold upon the admiration of posterity . It is melancholy to reflect , that he lived in misery , owing ever . to the difficulty of obtaining his pension as mathematician to 28 HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL DISCOVERY .
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... Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of ! " and Bradley's mortal sickness , some years later , was viewed as a punitive dispensation for having participated in the sacrilegious theft . The latter half of the eighteenth ...
... Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of ! " and Bradley's mortal sickness , some years later , was viewed as a punitive dispensation for having participated in the sacrilegious theft . The latter half of the eighteenth ...
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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...