The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 páginas |
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... Planets Initial O Comet of 1456 , as seen at Constantinople Various Forms of Comets Comet of 1744 Schroeter and Bessel's Comets 98 Falls of the Terni 286 100 Natural Bridge , Virginia 291 108 E. Weeden . Valley of the Concon , Chili The ...
... Planets Initial O Comet of 1456 , as seen at Constantinople Various Forms of Comets Comet of 1744 Schroeter and Bessel's Comets 98 Falls of the Terni 286 100 Natural Bridge , Virginia 291 108 E. Weeden . Valley of the Concon , Chili The ...
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... planets - by calculating the orbits of the comets , which accomplish their APHELIA in the regions of invisibility , and only discover themselves to us during a scanty portion of their course - by contemplating the stellar firmament ...
... planets - by calculating the orbits of the comets , which accomplish their APHELIA in the regions of invisibility , and only discover themselves to us during a scanty portion of their course - by contemplating the stellar firmament ...
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... planets , were objects of attention , with an entire reference either to astrology , religion , or policy of state . The Hindú tables claim an epoch of 3102 years before Christ , and fix a general conjunction of the sun , moon , and planets ...
... planets , were objects of attention , with an entire reference either to astrology , religion , or policy of state . The Hindú tables claim an epoch of 3102 years before Christ , and fix a general conjunction of the sun , moon , and planets ...
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... planets . The reference , in the fine passage descriptive of Tydides in the Iliad , is doubtful : 66 : - High on his helm celestial lightnings play , His beamy shield emits a living ray ; The unwearied blaze incessant streams supplies ...
... planets . The reference , in the fine passage descriptive of Tydides in the Iliad , is doubtful : 66 : - High on his helm celestial lightnings play , His beamy shield emits a living ray ; The unwearied blaze incessant streams supplies ...
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... planets , but the comets themselves , are in motion round the sun , and not floating meteors formed in the atmosphere . But such philosophic views as these , instead of obtaining the suffrages of antiquity , met with little acceptance ...
... planets , but the comets themselves , are in motion round the sun , and not floating meteors formed in the atmosphere . But such philosophic views as these , instead of obtaining the suffrages of antiquity , met with little acceptance ...
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ancient appearance Aratus astronomers Atlantic Atlantic Ocean atmosphere Black Sea bodies Boötes cause cave cavern centre clouds coast colour comet constellation continent depth diameter direction distance districts earth east ecliptic elevation equator exhibits extent fall feet Flamstead globe heat heavens height Herschel Hipparchus horizon Humboldt hundred hyæna immense inhabitants island Jupiter lake land latitude light limestone lunar magnitude mass miles moon motion mountains nature nearly nebula night northern observed occur ocean orbit Orinoco owing passing perihelion period phenomena plains planets present Ptolemy Pyrenees rain regions remarkable rise rivers rock round sand Saturn scene seen shore side snow solar southern space spot springs square miles stars stone stream summit supposed surface telescope temperature terrestrial thousand trees Tycho Brahe Uranus Ursa Major valley vapour vast vegetation velocity visible volcanic whole wind winter zone
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Página 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Página 552 - 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.
Página 74 - 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.
Página 571 - 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.
Página 326 - 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.
Página 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Página 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Página 692 - 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.
Página 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.