 | John Aikin - 1819 - 172 sider
...you exactly comprehend it; but I can show you enough to convince you that it is an affairthatrequires much knowledge, and early study. In former times when...known by exact observation. Then, there is one star that always points to the north pole, and is therefore called the pole-star. This was of great use... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 542 sider
...as sure as the standing of the lasting mountains and hills: yet further, as sure as the ordinances of the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night ; nay, once more it is as possible that the heavens should be measured by the short span of a mortal,... | |
 | 1841 - 488 sider
...the majestic forest-grove, the blue vault of heaven, its glories that are let down upon us through the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night, the lights and shades, perfumes and lines of beauty, which give utility or attraction to the visible universe... | |
 | Patrick Livingstone - 1847 - 406 sider
...thousands do now witness — glory to his name for ever more ! Now God gave man outward lights, the light of the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night ; and also the use of his eyes, without which he cannot make use of the outward lights. Now this light... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 582 sider
...for ? Ch. That I cannot tell. Fa. Nor perhaps can I make you exactly comprehend it ; but I can shew you enough to convince you that it is an affair that...known by exact observation. Then, there is one star that always points to the north-pole, and is therefore called the pole-star. This was of great use... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 690 sider
...our view from the earth beneath and around us, to the sky over our heads, and find it occupied with the sun by day and the moon and stars by night. The sun is evidently never at rest, but ia either ascending upwards in the sky from the east, or else sinking... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1852 - 500 sider
...bound for ? Ch. That I cannot tell. Fa. Nor, perhaps, can I make you exactly comprehend it ; but I can show you enough to convince you that it is an...sun shines. The moon and stars vary ; however, their places in the sky may be known by exact observation. Then, there is one star that always points to... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1860 - 612 sider
...rites, the absence of images, the pomp and frequency of festivals, the colossal structures open to the sun by day and the moon and stars by night, the stoléd trains of priests, the holocausts of cattle, all combined to impress a susceptible people with... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 896 sider
...rites, the absence of images, the pomp and frequency of festivals, the colossal structures open to the sun by day and the moon and stars by night, the stolèd trains of priests, the holocausts of cattle, all combined to impress a susceptible people with... | |
 | Samuel Davies Baldwin - 1864 - 492 sider
...the empire •would be eclipsed. The day and night relate to the time of the duration of this eclipse of the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night. As a day of twenty-four hours represents a year, by analogy, a year represents a prophetic year, and... | |
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I can show you enough to convince you that it is an affair that requires much knowledge and early study. In former times, when a vessel left the sight of land, it was steered by observation of the sun by day, and the moon and stars by night. The sun,... 
