Things Not Generally Known: Familiarly Explained. A Book for Old and YoungLockwood & Company, 1867 - 247 Seiten |
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... Royal Astronomical Society , to the published Report of the inquiry , or to the Year - Book of Facts , 1843. In this room also Mr. Baily frequently made other experiments , recorded in the Philosophical Trans- actions for 1838. On these ...
... Royal Astronomical Society , to the published Report of the inquiry , or to the Year - Book of Facts , 1843. In this room also Mr. Baily frequently made other experiments , recorded in the Philosophical Trans- actions for 1838. On these ...
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... royal crown . Around the centre rose is a circle inscribed with black - letter , except where it is broken by the base of the niche and the sitting king . There are also names inscribed in six of the white compartments , as well as in ...
... royal crown . Around the centre rose is a circle inscribed with black - letter , except where it is broken by the base of the niche and the sitting king . There are also names inscribed in six of the white compartments , as well as in ...
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... Royal , " a man in my youth - my friend was in his inquiries an ingenious man , a sort of philosopher - who used to say he should like to go to the edge of the earth and look over . " Airy's Lectures on Astronomy , p . 46 , 2d edition ...
... Royal , " a man in my youth - my friend was in his inquiries an ingenious man , a sort of philosopher - who used to say he should like to go to the edge of the earth and look over . " Airy's Lectures on Astronomy , p . 46 , 2d edition ...
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... Royal has explained , really by means of a common yard - measure ! But what pro- portion is there between even these monstrous distances and those of the stars discovered by the great powers of Lord Rosse's telescope , the power of ...
... Royal has explained , really by means of a common yard - measure ! But what pro- portion is there between even these monstrous distances and those of the stars discovered by the great powers of Lord Rosse's telescope , the power of ...
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... Royal Institute of the Pays Bas , in 1844 , experimented upon a portion of the North Sea ; when several gallons of oil were poured upon the restless waves without the effect of diminish- ing their motion ; indeed , the phrase was stated ...
... Royal Institute of the Pays Bas , in 1844 , experimented upon a portion of the North Sea ; when several gallons of oil were poured upon the restless waves without the effect of diminish- ing their motion ; indeed , the phrase was stated ...
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Seite 122 - Provided that nothing in this section contained shall extend to any second marriage contracted elsewhere than in England and Ireland by any other than a subject of Her Majesty, or to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife shall have been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and shall not have been known by such person to be living within that time...
Seite 3 - A PRIMER OF THE ART OF ILLUMINATION. For the Use of Beginners ; with a Rudimentary Treatise on the Art, Practical Directions for its Exercise, and Examples taken from Illuminated MSS., printed in Gold and Colours.
Seite 58 - 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 76 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Seite 194 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Seite 34 - 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 160 - When rosemary, and bays, the poet's crown, Are bawl'd, in frequent cries, through all the town, Then judge the festival of Christmas near, Christmas, the joyous period of the year. Now with bright holly all your temples strow, With laurel green, and sacred misletoe.
Seite 2 - The Philosophy of William Shakespeare ; delineating, in Seven Hundred and Fifty Passages selected from his Plays, the Multiform Phases of the Human Mind. With Index and References. Collated, Elucidated, and Alphabetically arranged, by the Editors of 'Truths Illustrated by Great Authors.
Seite 189 - ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him, and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
Seite 101 - 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.