The British Quarterly Review, Volumen6Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1847 |
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... brought to bear upon them , their light , almost invariably with the first excess of power , began to undergo an entire and remarkable change . The milkiness or haziness disappeared , and was replaced by a curdled and less homogeneous ...
... brought to bear upon them , their light , almost invariably with the first excess of power , began to undergo an entire and remarkable change . The milkiness or haziness disappeared , and was replaced by a curdled and less homogeneous ...
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... brought them into view . Such were the undoubted facts upon which Sir William Hers- chel proceeded . Two explanations of the remarkable pecu- liarities characterising these unresolved nebulæ were admissible ; and , so far as we can even ...
... brought them into view . Such were the undoubted facts upon which Sir William Hers- chel proceeded . Two explanations of the remarkable pecu- liarities characterising these unresolved nebulæ were admissible ; and , so far as we can even ...
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... brought upon his scheme , the honour of a noble attempt to read by the light of present ap- pearance the indefinite past of the heavens , and to unveil the majestic processes of stellar organisation and progression . The world's ...
... brought upon his scheme , the honour of a noble attempt to read by the light of present ap- pearance the indefinite past of the heavens , and to unveil the majestic processes of stellar organisation and progression . The world's ...
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... brought to it : and in March , 1846 , the pro- blem was solved at last , and the resolution of the Orion nebula announced . With its manifestation as a firmament , or cluster of stars , Herschel's lofty speculations fall to the ground ...
... brought to it : and in March , 1846 , the pro- blem was solved at last , and the resolution of the Orion nebula announced . With its manifestation as a firmament , or cluster of stars , Herschel's lofty speculations fall to the ground ...
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... brought down to us , and the phases of a few centuries back , compared with those of the far more distant eras of which alone we can at present take cognizance , might suggest to us something with regard to the mighty progressions which ...
... brought down to us , and the phases of a few centuries back , compared with those of the far more distant eras of which alone we can at present take cognizance , might suggest to us something with regard to the mighty progressions which ...
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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 spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
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 508 - Yet there is time!" At Aerschot up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare through the mist at us galloping past; And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last. With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray...
Página 368 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
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 508 - Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
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 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 509 - Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets