The North British Review, Volume 6W.P. Kennedy, 1847 |
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... comet , or any other celestial object ; but to predict the existence of a planet from phenomena which indicated its existence , is one of the finest achievements which philosophy has ever performed . In comparing the calculated with the ...
... comet , or any other celestial object ; but to predict the existence of a planet from phenomena which indicated its existence , is one of the finest achievements which philosophy has ever performed . In comparing the calculated with the ...
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... comet , from zoun hair , is that of a faint round nebula , through which stars are visible . In advancing towards the Sun the luminous matter becomes bright , and at last shoots forth a long train of light called its tail . After ...
... comet , from zoun hair , is that of a faint round nebula , through which stars are visible . In advancing towards the Sun the luminous matter becomes bright , and at last shoots forth a long train of light called its tail . After ...
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... comet , as was seen in the comet of 1825 , when observed at Paramatta . Mr. Dunlop assures us that the tail underwent not only continual but periodic changes , indicating " a rotation or a regular succes- sion of the same appearances ...
... comet , as was seen in the comet of 1825 , when observed at Paramatta . Mr. Dunlop assures us that the tail underwent not only continual but periodic changes , indicating " a rotation or a regular succes- sion of the same appearances ...
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... comet , when he was travelling from Calais to Paris , endeavoured to represent its motions by an elliptic orbit , with a period of 575 years . Hence , he was led to believe that this was the comet which terrified the Romans at the death ...
... comet , when he was travelling from Calais to Paris , endeavoured to represent its motions by an elliptic orbit , with a period of 575 years . Hence , he was led to believe that this was the comet which terrified the Romans at the death ...
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... comet wandered far beyond the limits of our system , the shortest period being 76 years , the celebrated Professor Encke , in 1819 , announced the discovery of a comet of such a short period , scarcely 3 years , that its orbit was ...
... comet wandered far beyond the limits of our system , the shortest period being 76 years , the celebrated Professor Encke , in 1819 , announced the discovery of a comet of such a short period , scarcely 3 years , that its orbit was ...
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Página 426 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Página 413 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 420 - Let us (said He) pour on him all we can. Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way, Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all His treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Página 417 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Página 139 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier, while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the floodgates of life shut in eternal rest.
Página 411 - They are but the blunt and the low faculties of our nature, which can only be addressed through lamp-black and lightning. It is in quiet and subdued passages of unobtrusive majesty, the deep, and the calm, and the perpetual; that which must be sought ere it is seen, and loved ere it is understood; things which the angels work out for us daily, and yet vary eternally: which are never wanting, and never repeated; which are to be found always, yet each found but once; it is through these that the lesson...
Página 420 - I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on My creature, He would adore My gifts instead of Me, And rest in nature, not the God of nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to My breast.
Página 45 - All my jewels in like sort take thou with thee, For they are fitting for thy wife, but not for me. ' I will spend my days in prayer, Love and all her laws...
Página 57 - In this our spacious isle, I think there is not one, But he hath heard some talk of him and little John ; And to the end of time, the tales shall ne'er be done, Of Scarlock, George a Green, and Much the miller's son, Of Tuck the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his out-laws, and their trade.
Página 407 - ... images of the burning clouds, which fall upon them in flakes of crimson and scarlet, and give to the reckless waves the added motion of their own fiery flying.