The British Quarterly Review, Volumen6Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1847 |
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... bodies so ponderous as these very large instruments are . Such an objection would scarcely have been advanced as insuperable by the author , if he had considered how the mechanical wonders of one generation are the playthings of the ...
... bodies so ponderous as these very large instruments are . Such an objection would scarcely have been advanced as insuperable by the author , if he had considered how the mechanical wonders of one generation are the playthings of the ...
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... bodies presenting themselves under these peculiarities of aspect were really identical with the resolvable nebulæ , and that the marked distinction of phenomenal appearance was simply a result of comparative distance : that these also ...
... bodies presenting themselves under these peculiarities of aspect were really identical with the resolvable nebulæ , and that the marked distinction of phenomenal appearance was simply a result of comparative distance : that these also ...
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... body ; the shortening ellipsoid ; the circular or nearly circular disc ; that disc with brightening centre , and contracting and brightening still , till spherical or spheroidal form became undoubted and conspicuous : -such was the well ...
... body ; the shortening ellipsoid ; the circular or nearly circular disc ; that disc with brightening centre , and contracting and brightening still , till spherical or spheroidal form became undoubted and conspicuous : -such was the well ...
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... bodies has become , under the search of the three - feet speculum : a somewhat crowded central knot of stars , with an immense extent of looser , but utterly non - uniform star - dust around it ; the whole presenting no longer any ...
... bodies has become , under the search of the three - feet speculum : a somewhat crowded central knot of stars , with an immense extent of looser , but utterly non - uniform star - dust around it ; the whole presenting no longer any ...
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... body , tapering away to an immense elongated tail , fringed on either side with an immense array of streaming arms and filaments , irregular alike in length and breadth , and in direction of stretch ; the body presenting what we ...
... body , tapering away to an immense elongated tail , fringed on either side with an immense array of streaming arms and filaments , irregular alike in length and breadth , and in direction of stretch ; the body presenting what we ...
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Página 331 - Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 507 - Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Página 507 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Página 473 - And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians...
Página 473 - ... and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Página 497 - Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others, she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service ! Rags, — were they purple, his heart had been proud...
Página 62 - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents...
Página 184 - These dictates of reason men used, to call by the name of laws, but improperly; for they are but conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas law, properly, is the word of him that by right hath command over others.
Página 508 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track ; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy...
Página 185 - This is more than consent, or concord; it is a real unity of them all, in one and the same person, made by covenant of every man with every man...