...star Threatens the world with fmniuc, plague, and war; To princes death, tn kingdoms many crosses, To all estates inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot,...seasons. To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons." And a writer on the subject of comets, in 1665, expresses his opinion as to the end and object for...

...star Threatens the world with famine, plague, and war; To princes death, to kingdoms many crosses; To all estates inevitable losses; To herdsmen rot, to ploughmen hapless seasons; To sailors.storms, to cities civil treasons." In the year 1456 a very large comet appeared. Three years...

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

...the fire had burnt low ; the editor went shivering to bed. ED Cornels, The blazing star, Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes,...; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons. THERE is no heavenly body which excites so much interest 'while it is visible, as a large comet ; its...

...Suffice it for me here to quote the words of the Poet, who speaks of "The blazing Star, . Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes,...; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." However little attention might have been paid by the ancients to the more ordinary phenomena of nature...

...were at Paris. The comet he found was a poor little thing to look at ; certainly not "A blazing star, Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war...rot ; to ploughmen, hapless seasons ; To sailors, storm; to cities, civil treasons." It does not blaze now, it only looms ; but it may happen to shine...

...Threat'ning the world with famine, plajrue, and war ; To princes, death ; to kingdoms, many crosses ; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot...; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." But some good as well as evil, and various events of the ambiguous class, have been referred to cometary...

...Superstitious fears have always been excited by their appearance, and they have been looked upon in every age as " Threatening the world with famine,...assassination of Julius Csesar, was looked upon by the Eomans as a celestial chariot sent to convey his soul heavenward. An old English writer observes :...

...Superstitious fears have always been excited by their appearance, and they have been looked upon in every age as " Threatening the world with famine,...; to cities, civil treasons." Thus the comet of 43 B. o., which appeared just after the assassination of Julius Csesar, was looked upon by the Eomans...

...many curses ; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot ; to plowmen, hapless reasons ; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." Thus the comet of 43 uc, which appeared just after the assassination of Julius Caesar, was looked upon by the Romans as...