Letters on Astronomy: In which the Elements of the Science are Familialry [!] Explained ... With Numerous EngravingsHarper & Brothers, 1840 - 427 |
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... objects , while they are contracted and weakened by being constantly employed upon little or trifling sub- jects . The former elevate , the latter depress , the mind , to their own level . Now , every thing in as- tronomy is great . The ...
... objects , while they are contracted and weakened by being constantly employed upon little or trifling sub- jects . The former elevate , the latter depress , the mind , to their own level . Now , every thing in as- tronomy is great . The ...
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... objects of his attachment desert him ; the face of society changes ; the earth presents new features ; but the same sun illumines the day , the same moon adorns the night , and the same bright stars still attend him . When , moreover ...
... objects of his attachment desert him ; the face of society changes ; the earth presents new features ; but the same sun illumines the day , the same moon adorns the night , and the same bright stars still attend him . When , moreover ...
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... objects , as we imag ine the shore is receding from us , when we are uncon scious of the motion of the ship that carries us from Although many of the appearances , presented by the motions of the heavenly bodies , may be explained or ...
... objects , as we imag ine the shore is receding from us , when we are uncon scious of the motion of the ship that carries us from Although many of the appearances , presented by the motions of the heavenly bodies , may be explained or ...
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... object is to teach what is known respecting the sun , moon , planets , com- ets , and fixed stars ; and also to explain the methods by which this knowledge is acquired . Astronomy is some- times divided into descriptive , physical , and ...
... object is to teach what is known respecting the sun , moon , planets , com- ets , and fixed stars ; and also to explain the methods by which this knowledge is acquired . Astronomy is some- times divided into descriptive , physical , and ...
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... objects are inscribed . If we take any two points on the surface of the sphere , as two stars , for example , and imagine straight lines to be drawn to them from the eye , the angle included be- tween these lines will be measured by the ...
... objects are inscribed . If we take any two points on the surface of the sphere , as two stars , for example , and imagine straight lines to be drawn to them from the eye , the angle included be- tween these lines will be measured by the ...
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Strona 195 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Strona 88 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Strona 181 - 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...
Strona 208 - First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all the horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heaven's high road ; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danced, Shedding sweet influence.
Strona 235 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Strona 383 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Strona 36 - 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...
Strona 101 - As home he goes beneath the joyous moon. Ye that keep watch in heaven, as earth asleep Unconscious lies, effuse your mildest beams, Ye constellations, while your angels strike, Amid the spangled sky, the silver lyre. Great source of day ! best image here below Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide, From world to world, the vital ocean round, On nature write with every beam His praise.
Strona 181 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night ! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the. deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Strona 282 - On the other hand, in the regions beneath the dark side, a solar eclipse of fifteen years in duration, under their shadow, must afford (to our ideas) an inhospitable asylum to animated beings, ill compensated by the faint light of the satellites. But we shall do wrong to judge of the fitness or unfitness of their condition from what we see around us, when, perhaps, the very combinations which convey to our minds only images of horror, may be in reality theatres of the most striking and glorious displays...