Things not generally known, familiarly explainedD. Bogue, 1856 - 247 Seiten |
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... Lord Rosse's telescope , are at such an inconceivable distance , that their light , travelling at the rate of 200,000 miles a second , cannot arrive at our little planet in less time than fourteen thousand years ! Of this I am assured ...
... Lord Rosse's telescope , are at such an inconceivable distance , that their light , travelling at the rate of 200,000 miles a second , cannot arrive at our little planet in less time than fourteen thousand years ! Of this I am assured ...
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... Lord Rosse's telescope , the power of which we have just illustrated ? it . BINARY STARS . We can now detect Binary , physically Binary stars ; that is to say , a primary , with a companion continually revolving round " This , " says ...
... Lord Rosse's telescope , the power of which we have just illustrated ? it . BINARY STARS . We can now detect Binary , physically Binary stars ; that is to say , a primary , with a companion continually revolving round " This , " says ...
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... Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became a living soul . did not merely possess it , " observes Coleridge ; " he became it . It was his proper being ; his truest ...
... Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground , and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man became a living soul . did not merely possess it , " observes Coleridge ; " he became it . It was his proper being ; his truest ...
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... Lord Bacon , in his History of Life and Death , quotes as a fact unquestioned that a few years before he wrote a morris dance was performed in Herefordshire , at the May games , by eight men , whose ages in the aggregate amounted to ...
... Lord Bacon , in his History of Life and Death , quotes as a fact unquestioned that a few years before he wrote a morris dance was performed in Herefordshire , at the May games , by eight men , whose ages in the aggregate amounted to ...
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... Lord Exmouth's bombardment of Algiers , where the casualties reached 147 per 1000 ; but the historian James asserts , that , in the official returns relating to the attack upon Copenhagen , the slightly wounded were not included , and ...
... Lord Exmouth's bombardment of Algiers , where the casualties reached 147 per 1000 ; but the historian James asserts , that , in the official returns relating to the attack upon Copenhagen , the slightly wounded were not included , and ...
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Seite 79 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good.
Seite 50 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Seite 180 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 9 - WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON, ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ; or, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Seite 14 - DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART; comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of every Branch of Human Knowledge; with the Derivation and Definition of all the Terms in General Use.
Seite 26 - A. rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite the sun, — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind, to us; whereas the rainbow in the east proves that the rain in those clouds is passing from us.
Seite 92 - A custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.
Seite 170 - By the general law, and of common right, all the pews in a parish church are the common property of the parish : they are for the use, in common, of the parishioners, who are all entitled to be seated, orderly, and conveniently, so as best to provide for the accommodation of all.
Seite 229 - THERE are no books which I more delight in than in travels, especially those that describe remote countries, and give the writer an opportunity of showing his parts without incurring any danger of being examined or contradicted. Among all the authors of this kind, our renowned countryman, Sir John Mandeville, has distinguished himself by the copiousness of his invention and the greatness of his genius. The second to Sir John I take to have been Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a person of infinite adventure...