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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... suppose , in the same manner , that he could cover our entire system with a spider's thread . He would set down the sun in his map as a fixed star ; but to his eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not ...
... suppose , in the same manner , that he could cover our entire system with a spider's thread . He would set down the sun in his map as a fixed star ; but to his eye it would present no variation , as the largest of our planets would not ...
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... suppose the Deity would bestow , without any purpose , upon a mere collection of matter . The analogies which thus display a family likeness throughout all the systems of the universe will perhaps be more easily com- prehended , if we ...
... suppose the Deity would bestow , without any purpose , upon a mere collection of matter . The analogies which thus display a family likeness throughout all the systems of the universe will perhaps be more easily com- prehended , if we ...
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... suppose that light and heat , air and water , vegetation , day and night , seasons and climates , are bestowed on Mercury , Venus , and Mars , without any view to animal life , without any purpose of administering to the maintenance and ...
... suppose that light and heat , air and water , vegetation , day and night , seasons and climates , are bestowed on Mercury , Venus , and Mars , without any view to animal life , without any purpose of administering to the maintenance and ...
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... suppose Jupiter to move in such a medium , he would in a million years lose less than a millionth part of his velocity . If a planet re- volving about the sun were to lose any portion of its velocity by the effect of resistance , it ...
... suppose Jupiter to move in such a medium , he would in a million years lose less than a millionth part of his velocity . If a planet re- volving about the sun were to lose any portion of its velocity by the effect of resistance , it ...
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... suppose it , does not allow us to escape this certainty . There is a resisting medium ; and , therefore , the movements of the solar system cannot go on for ever . The moment such a fluid is ascertained to exist , the eternity of the ...
... suppose it , does not allow us to escape this certainty . There is a resisting medium ; and , therefore , the movements of the solar system cannot go on for ever . The moment such a fluid is ascertained to exist , the eternity of the ...
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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.