...Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes death ; to kingdoms many crosses ; To all estates inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot...seasons ; To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons." The Chaldeans, who were eminent for their astronomical researches, were of opinion, that Comets were...

...STAR, To Princes Death, to Kingdoms many Crosses, Threat'ning the World with Famine, Plague, and War; To all Estates Inevitable Losses ; To Herdsmen Rot,...To Sailors Storms, to Cities Civil Treasons. Thus far of COMETS from Poets, who were wont to be the Historiographers and Annalists of by-gone Antiquity....

...star Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes death, to kingdoms many crosses, To all estates inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot,...seasons, To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons. Lubienitz, a Polish writer, speaks of a comet, which " came out from an opening in the heavens, like...

...star Threatens the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes death, to kingdoms many crosses ; To all estates inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot,...seasons ; To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons.'' The following extract from " Tully's Letters from Tripoli" contains a picturesque description of a...

...the world with famine, plague, and war; To prince* de;ith, to kingdoms many crosses ; To all entâtes inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot, to ploughmen...seasons-, To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons." The following extract from " Tnlly's Ltlten from Tripoti" contains a picturesque description of a solar...

...the gross darkness of the middle ages, they were regarded as cruel and potent agencies, threatening " To herdsmen rot ; to ploughmen hapless seasons ; To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons." The suddenness of their imposing appearance, as well as their apparent nearness and lawlessness, has...

...Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war : To princes, death ; to kingdoms, many crosses ; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot;...; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." We have the word comet from the Greek coma, or hair, a title which had its origin in the hairy appearance...

...Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes, death ; to kingdoms, many crosses ; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot...; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." We have the word comet from the Greek x°M> or a title which had its origin in the hairy appearance...

...star Threatens the world with famine, plague, and war: To princes death, to kingdoms many'crosses: To all estates inevitable losses; To herdsmen rot,...seasons; To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons." The following extract from " Tully's Letters from Tripoli," contains a picturesque description of a...

...star Threatens the world with famine, plague, and war; To princes death, to kingdoms many crosses ¡ To all estates inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot,...seasons; To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons." The following «tract from " Tully'« Letter* from Tripoli," contains a picturesque description of...