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
| John Parry - 1894 - 898 pages
...brenhinoedd, a dadgyfansoddiad ymherodraethau. Dywed y barda Saesneg : — • * » "The blazing star Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war...seasons; To sailors, storms; to cities, civil treasons." Y mae un f antais wedi deilliaw i wyddoniaeth oddi wrth y syniadau hyn. 0 herwydd y pwys igrwydd tybiedig... | |
| Daniel Defoe - Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666 - 1895 - 392 pages
...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 ! ' " — Brayley, pp. 30-32. Pepys in his " Diary " refers several times to the two comets : — [December... | |
| Daniel Defoe - Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666 - 1895 - 396 pages
...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!' " — Brayley, pp. 30-32. Pepys in his " Diary " refers several times to the two comets : — [December... | |
| Daniel Defoe - Great Plague, London, England, 1664-1666 - 1895 - 392 pages
...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 ! . " — Brayley, pp. 30-32. Pepys in his " Diary " refers several times to the two comets : — [December... | |
| Samuel Goodwin Barton - Halley's comet - 1910 - 30 pages
...close the subject by quoting a poet who expresses well the general idea: "The blazing star, Threat'ning the world with famine, plague and war; To princes,...seasons; To sailors, storms: to cities, civil treasons." 'Professor of Mathematics, Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial School of Technology. Appearance. — A typical... | |
| 606 pages
...Threat 'ning the world with famine, plague, and war ; To princes, death- ; to kingdom*, many crosses ; To all estates, inevitable losses ; To herdsmen, rot...; To sailors, storms ; to cities, civil treasons." Certain of the Popes, also, used gravely to excommunicate these " flaming horrors," and decrees were... | |
| Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 676 pages
..."Threatening the world with famine, plague, and war. To princes death: to kingdoms many cartel, To ill estates inevitable losses, To herdsmen, rot, to ploughmen...seasons; To sailors storms, to cities civil treasons." (Shakespeare.) Select the number of stars in a constellation, add to it the number of the date of your... | |
| 1854 - 618 pages
...Thront'ning the world with famine, plague, and war: To princeK, 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 koma, or hair, a title which had its origin in the hairy appearance... | |
| Military art and science - 1832 - 614 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." And Milton, who lived after the days of Tycho Brahe and Galileo, and was at gnce learned, sensible,... | |
| Great Britain - 1857 - 872 pages
...Threat'iiing the. world with famine, plague, anil war; To princes death: to kingdoms, many cr.js»« ; To all estates, inevitable losses; To herdsmen, rot;...ploughmen, hapless seasons ; To sailors, storms ; to dtics, civil treasons." It is only fair to add, that some good as well as evil, and various events... | |
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