The Story of the Peasant-boy Philosopher, Or, A Child Gathering Pebbles on the Sea-shoreG. Routledge and Sons, 1855 - Всего страниц: 484 |
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The Story of the Peasant-boy Philosopher: Or, "The Child Gathering Pebbles ... Henry Mayhew Просмотр фрагмента - 1856 |
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Стр. 387 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, And turneth the shadow of death into the morning, And maketh the day dark with night: That calleth for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth : The Lord is his name: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, So that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Стр. 387 - Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
Стр. 351 - Yes, I can see now, sir," remarked the lad, " that the appearance would be all the same whether the earth went round the sun or the sun round the earth. But, Captain Jones, if it would be all the same, why should they want to make out that the earth goes round the sun...
Стр. 387 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the Lord is his name; that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Стр. 180 - ... to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
Стр. 438 - Uranus, it is believed, 6, while * Kepler, the celebrated astronomer of Wirtemberg, was the first to point out that the squares of the times in which' the planets revolve about the sun, are in the same proportion as the cubes of their distances. For instance, the periods in which the Earth and Mars complete their revolutions in their orbits are respectively...
Стр. 460 - IT surely is not impossible that to some infinitely superior being the whole universe may be as one plain, the distance between planet and planet being only as the pores in a grain of sand, and the spaces between system and system no greater than the intervals between one grain and the grain adjacent.
Стр. 302 - ... the * The magnitude of a star signifies simply its degree of brightness. The brightest stars are said to be of "the first magnitude ;" those which fall so far short of the first degree of brightness as to make a marked distinction are said to be of "the second magnitude...
Стр. 217 - ... towards the eastern quarter appearing to rise or recede from the horizon, while those which lie towards the west will be seen to approach it ; and, if watched long enough, will, for the most part, finally sink beneath it, and disappear ; while others, in the eastern quarter, will be seen to rise as if out of the earth, and, joining in the general procession, will take their course with the rest towards the opposite quarter.
Стр. 302 - Astronomers are in the habit of distinguishing the stars into classes, according to their apparent brightness. These are termed magnitudes. The brightest stars are said to be of the first magnitude; those which fall so far short of the first degree of brightness as to make a marked distinction are classed in the second, and so on down to the sixth or seventh, which comprise the smallest stars visible to the naked eye, in the clearest and darkest night.