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... dark ! If contemplation of the stars invite The mind to adoration and delight ; Shall then the knowledge of their powers and laws Fail to give pleasure , and deserve applause ? Does not conviction in our mind arise , Bright as NO . I ...
... dark ! If contemplation of the stars invite The mind to adoration and delight ; Shall then the knowledge of their powers and laws Fail to give pleasure , and deserve applause ? Does not conviction in our mind arise , Bright as NO . I ...
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... dark line across the middle of the planet's disk , and if the eye be elevated about the plane of the ring , a ... dark , considerable broad belt or zone , which he has constantly found on the north side of the ring . As this dark belt is ...
... dark line across the middle of the planet's disk , and if the eye be elevated about the plane of the ring , a ... dark , considerable broad belt or zone , which he has constantly found on the north side of the ring . As this dark belt is ...
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... dark zone is contained between two concentric circles , for all the phenomena correspond with the projection of such a zone . The nature of the ring Dr. Herschel thinks no less solid than that of Saturn itself , and it is observed to ...
... dark zone is contained between two concentric circles , for all the phenomena correspond with the projection of such a zone . The nature of the ring Dr. Herschel thinks no less solid than that of Saturn itself , and it is observed to ...
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... all directions . When examined through a good telescope , a comet may be said to resemble a mass of aqueous vapours , encircling an opaque nucleus of different degrees of darkness in different Comets , 20 The Monthly Correspondent.
... all directions . When examined through a good telescope , a comet may be said to resemble a mass of aqueous vapours , encircling an opaque nucleus of different degrees of darkness in different Comets , 20 The Monthly Correspondent.
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nucleus of different degrees of darkness in different Comets , though sometimes no nucleus can be seen . As the Comet advances towards the Sun , its faint and nebulous light be- comes more brilliant , and its luminous train gradually in ...
nucleus of different degrees of darkness in different Comets , though sometimes no nucleus can be seen . As the Comet advances towards the Sun , its faint and nebulous light be- comes more brilliant , and its luminous train gradually in ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 373 - See here thy pictur'd life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Página 365 - Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man...
Página 354 - Th' unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth: Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 41 - Savage did not exempt him; or those, who, in confidence of superior capacities or attainments, disregard the common maxims of life, shall be reminded, that nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Página 371 - But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, And lose them in each other, as appears In every bud that blows...
Página 221 - ... of these receptacles, walked about the streets till he was weary, and lay down in the summer upon a bulk, or in the winter, with his associates in poverty, among the ashes of a glass-house.
Página 365 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die...
Página 187 - Lord Tyrconnel, whatever were his motives, upon his promise to lay aside his design of exposing the cruelty of his mother, received him into his family, treated him as his equal, and engaged to allow him a pension of two hundred pounds a year.
Página 40 - Such were the life and death of Richard Savage, a man equally distinguished by his virtues and vices, and at once remarkable for his weaknesses and abilities.
Página 221 - Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.