The gallery of nature: a tour through creation, Том 281860 |
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... nearly so , Thales must have been able to come much nearer to the time . It follows , also , that such a prediction could only have been made with certainty by one in possession of a long series of observations derived from some foreign ...
... nearly so , Thales must have been able to come much nearer to the time . It follows , also , that such a prediction could only have been made with certainty by one in possession of a long series of observations derived from some foreign ...
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... nearly 3o east of the latter . The principle of the method employed is , however , pre- cisely the same as that which has been acted upon in modern times ; and our more accu- rate results in determining the magnitude of the earth are ...
... nearly 3o east of the latter . The principle of the method employed is , however , pre- cisely the same as that which has been acted upon in modern times ; and our more accu- rate results in determining the magnitude of the earth are ...
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... nearly three centuries , when we come to Ptolemy , the first who formally broached a system of the universe which has been handed down to us . Apart from his has great merits . scholar of his theory , Ptolemy He was the best age- a ...
... nearly three centuries , when we come to Ptolemy , the first who formally broached a system of the universe which has been handed down to us . Apart from his has great merits . scholar of his theory , Ptolemy He was the best age- a ...
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... nearly the same period , for the patronage of scien- tific associations , and the founding of national observatories . The Royal Society of London was incorporated by charter in the year 1662 , and numbered among its early members Boyle ...
... nearly the same period , for the patronage of scien- tific associations , and the founding of national observatories . The Royal Society of London was incorporated by charter in the year 1662 , and numbered among its early members Boyle ...
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... nearly four times greater than that of the Herschelian , and its weight approaches to four tons . The casting - a work of no ordinary interest and difficulty - took place on the 13th of April , 1842 , at nine in the evening ; and as the ...
... nearly four times greater than that of the Herschelian , and its weight approaches to four tons . The casting - a work of no ordinary interest and difficulty - took place on the 13th of April , 1842 , at nine in the evening ; and as the ...
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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...