The heavens and the earth; or, Familiar illustrations of astronomyReligious Tract Society, 1873 |
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... Nature - Luminous Ring - Red Prominences - Baily's Beads -Sudden Return of Daylight- " O Beautiful Sun ! " ... ... page 141 VIII . - MARS - THE PLANETOIDS - METEORS AND METEOR PLANETS . Exterior Planets - Mars - Ruddy Colour - Varying ...
... Nature - Luminous Ring - Red Prominences - Baily's Beads -Sudden Return of Daylight- " O Beautiful Sun ! " ... ... page 141 VIII . - MARS - THE PLANETOIDS - METEORS AND METEOR PLANETS . Exterior Planets - Mars - Ruddy Colour - Varying ...
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... natural knowledge which treats of the number , distance , magnitude , motions , and physical constitution of the great bodies that compose the universe , the laws that regulate their movements , with the means and processes by which ...
... natural knowledge which treats of the number , distance , magnitude , motions , and physical constitution of the great bodies that compose the universe , the laws that regulate their movements , with the means and processes by which ...
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... nature , or been extensions of ideas already familiar . Thus the stately merchant vessel or man- of - war is but a huge copy of the tiny shell of the nautilus afloat upon the deep , and the sere and yellow leaf drifting at random on the ...
... nature , or been extensions of ideas already familiar . Thus the stately merchant vessel or man- of - war is but a huge copy of the tiny shell of the nautilus afloat upon the deep , and the sere and yellow leaf drifting at random on the ...
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... nature offered no analogy . Unlike all other things of human construction , its special province is remote and celestial , though appli- cable to terrestrial purposes . Considerations of this kind establish for the telescope a high ...
... nature offered no analogy . Unlike all other things of human construction , its special province is remote and celestial , though appli- cable to terrestrial purposes . Considerations of this kind establish for the telescope a high ...
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... natural landmarks , the discovery was made , that the bright points in the firmament might be serviceable to direct the footsteps of the traveller across them . Diodorus Siculus states , that in the sandy deserts of Arabia , travellers ...
... natural landmarks , the discovery was made , that the bright points in the firmament might be serviceable to direct the footsteps of the traveller across them . Diodorus Siculus states , that in the sandy deserts of Arabia , travellers ...
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Page 115 - 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...
Page 294 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Page 251 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 97 - Thus saith the LORD ; If ye can break my covenant of the day, And my covenant of the night, And that there should not be day and night in their season. Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, That he should not have a son to reign upon his throne ; And with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Page 294 - Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea ; Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south ; Which doeth great things past finding out ; yea, and wonders without number.
Page 112 - For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations : thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
Page 106 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 64 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: Wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, And lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work And to his labour until the evening.
Page 205 - Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore can have no influence on the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist.
Page 24 - When I behold this goodly frame, this World Of Heaven and Earth consisting, and compute Their magnitudes ; this Earth, a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compared...