The Quarterly Review, Volumen50William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1834 |
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... seen before . † Some stars are double and even triple ; that is to say , they appear to us within a barely distinguishable distance of each other . Upwards of three thousand double stars have been already discovered , and it is justly ...
... seen before . † Some stars are double and even triple ; that is to say , they appear to us within a barely distinguishable distance of each other . Upwards of three thousand double stars have been already discovered , and it is justly ...
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... Seen through a telescope of inferior power , they appear like companion butterflies fluttering in the sky ; in one of medium power they become well- defined objects . Sir W. Herschel says , that the striking difference in the colour of ...
... Seen through a telescope of inferior power , they appear like companion butterflies fluttering in the sky ; in one of medium power they become well- defined objects . Sir W. Herschel says , that the striking difference in the colour of ...
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... seen through a telescope of moderate power , we imagine that a half - crown piece would cover . * an individual gazing through a similar instrument from a planet of Sirius at our sun , might suppose , in the same manner , that he could ...
... seen through a telescope of moderate power , we imagine that a half - crown piece would cover . * an individual gazing through a similar instrument from a planet of Sirius at our sun , might suppose , in the same manner , that he could ...
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... seen in the firmament . nature - who , from his familiar acquaintance with the aspect of the heavens , had been led to notice , among so many thousand stars , this one , as distinguished from the rest by its variation , and had ...
... seen in the firmament . nature - who , from his familiar acquaintance with the aspect of the heavens , had been led to notice , among so many thousand stars , this one , as distinguished from the rest by its variation , and had ...
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... seen before . It shone in the constellation Cassiopeia , was then as bright as Sirius , and for a while was visible even at mid - day . It began to fade in December of the same year , and after exhibiting all the changes of ...
... seen before . It shone in the constellation Cassiopeia , was then as bright as Sirius , and for a while was visible even at mid - day . It began to fade in December of the same year , and after exhibiting all the changes of ...
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Página 513 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Página 538 - I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.
Página 538 - And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?
Página 427 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Página 556 - OUR Lord Jesus Christ, who hath left power to his church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in him, of his great mercy forgive thee thine offences ! And by his authority committed to me, I absolve thee from all thy sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Página 542 - Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Página 486 - Earth has not anything to show more fair : Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers,, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Página 289 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Página 446 - Exspatiata ruunt per apertos flumina campos, Cumque satis arbusta simul pecudesque virosque Tectaque cumque suis rapiunt penetralia sacris.
Página 284 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.