 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 ploughmen, hapless seasons ; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons.  Fourteen Weeks Course in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 206by Joel Dorman Steele - 1876 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Popular educator - 1876 - 862 pages
...Threatening 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." On account of this feeling, the periods of their appearance have usually been carefully recorded, and... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 604 pages
...times, when the appearance and movements of comets ag $ortcnt0. BT BICHAED A. PROCTOB. The blazing star, Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war;...seasons ; To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons. ALTHOUGH comets are no longer regarded with superstitious awe as in old times, mystery still clings... | |
 | 1877 - 616 pages
...— FOR HELP. (To lx continued.) I 8 s Comets ait portents. BY E1CHAKD A. PEOCTOR. The blazing star, Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war;...seasons ; To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons. ALTHOUGH comets are no longer regarded with superstitious awe as in old times, mystery still clings... | |
 | Belgravia - 1877 - 556 pages
...HELP. (To be continued.) 5 0 s| I I 8 I a q £ BY RICHARD A. PROCTOR. The blazing star, Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war; To princes...; % To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons. ALTHOUGH comets are no longer regarded with superstitious awe as in old times, mystery still clings... | |
 | John Parry - Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Welsh - 1877 - 766 pages
...star Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war; To princes, death; to kingdoms, many cunes; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot...seasons; To sailors, storms; to cities, civil treasons." Y mae un f an tais wedi deilliaw i wyddoniaeth oddi wrth y syniadau hyn. 0 herwydd y pwysigrwydd tybiedig... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 562 pages
...world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes death ; to kingdoms many curses ; To all rst.it us inevitable losses ; To herdsmen rot ; to ploughmen...seasons ; To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons. ALTHOUGH comets are no longer regarded with superstitious awe as in old times, mystery still clings... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1877 - 968 pages
...war ; To princes, death ; to kingdoms, many curses ; To all estates, inevitable losses; To henlsmen. rot; to ploughmen, hapless seasons; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." However little attention might have been paid by the ancients to the more ordinary phenomena of nature... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - Astrology - 1878 - 498 pages
...matters rather of theory than of observation. 211 VIII. COMETS AS PORTENTS. The blazing star, Threat'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes...seasons ; To sailors storms ; to cities civil treasons. ALTHOUGH comets are no longer regarded with superstitious awe as in old times, mystery still clings... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Fires - 1882 - 456 pages
...Plague, and War :— To all Estates inevitable losses; To Princes death; to Kingdoms many crosses; To Herdsmen rot; to Ploughmen hapless seasons; To Sailors storms ; to Cities civil treasons." causes are assigned by the astronomers for such things ; and that their motions, and even their revolutions,... | |
 | Astronomy - 1885 - 348 pages
...seem to have been universally regarded with terror, as harbingers of some dire calamity to mankind ; "Threatening the world with famine, plague and war;...seasons; To sailors, storms; to cities, civil treasons." Even in the present age the sudden appearance of a brilliant comet, like those of 1881 and 1882, produces... | |
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