The Edinburgh Review, Bind 48;Bind 82A. and C. Black, 1845 |
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... nearly two hundred millions of miles in diameter . The fixed stars , therefore , were so enormously distant as to have no measurable parallax . was the exact state of things till within a very few years . This Sir William Herschel , who ...
... nearly two hundred millions of miles in diameter . The fixed stars , therefore , were so enormously distant as to have no measurable parallax . was the exact state of things till within a very few years . This Sir William Herschel , who ...
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... nearly in one plane and we thus , in imagination , elaborate a system in which we naturally have a great incandescent body in the centre , and all the bodies revolving , nearly in one plane , round their All that La axes and round their ...
... nearly in one plane and we thus , in imagination , elaborate a system in which we naturally have a great incandescent body in the centre , and all the bodies revolving , nearly in one plane , round their All that La axes and round their ...
Side 22
... nearly circular , are not affected by the magnitude of the central spherical body , while its whole mass remains the same . Hence if the sun were suddenly expanded to the limits of our atmosphere , the earth would go on ( for we will ...
... nearly circular , are not affected by the magnitude of the central spherical body , while its whole mass remains the same . Hence if the sun were suddenly expanded to the limits of our atmosphere , the earth would go on ( for we will ...
Side 24
... nearly the same , that we might amuse ourselves by supposing them made of the same materials , arranged nearly in the same fashion . In the same kind of language , we might compare Saturn to a globe of cork , while Jupiter and Uranus ...
... nearly the same , that we might amuse ourselves by supposing them made of the same materials , arranged nearly in the same fashion . In the same kind of language , we might compare Saturn to a globe of cork , while Jupiter and Uranus ...
Side 29
... nearly finished their work , that they left little to do for those who followed them . Statuary marble was formerly called primitive ; but Sir James Hall made it out of pounded chalk or oyster shells . The erupted sye- nites of the Isle ...
... nearly finished their work , that they left little to do for those who followed them . Statuary marble was formerly called primitive ; but Sir James Hall made it out of pounded chalk or oyster shells . The erupted sye- nites of the Isle ...
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Side 106 - Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Side 504 - he is a middle.sized, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion, and dark-brown coloured hair, but wears a wig ; a hooked nose, a sharp chin, grey eyes, and a large mole near his mouth...
Side 79 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Side 258 - ... that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country...
Side 202 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Side 425 - I was an absolute pedant : when I talked my best, I quoted Horace ; when I aimed at being facetious, I quoted Martial ; and when I had a mind to be a fine gentleman, I talked Ovid.
Side 37 - O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made them and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 277 - And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire ; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Side 437 - The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Side 449 - Talk often, but never long ; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.