The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumen 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... round from east to west , and the same phase is presented only once in twenty - five days , fourteen hours , and eight minutes , the time in which he performs a complete revolution . • Dr. Herschel imagined that these dark spots on the ...
... round from east to west , and the same phase is presented only once in twenty - five days , fourteen hours , and eight minutes , the time in which he performs a complete revolution . • Dr. Herschel imagined that these dark spots on the ...
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... round is travelled by the earth and all its inhabitants in 365 days , 6 hours , 9 minutes , and 12 seconds , at the mean rate of 68 000 miles an hour . CABINET OF NATURE . EARTHQUAKES . Earthquakes are certainly the most terrible appear ...
... round is travelled by the earth and all its inhabitants in 365 days , 6 hours , 9 minutes , and 12 seconds , at the mean rate of 68 000 miles an hour . CABINET OF NATURE . EARTHQUAKES . Earthquakes are certainly the most terrible appear ...
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... round its axis in 25 days , 14 hours , and his irregular motion about the cen- tre of gravity of the solar system , he appears to have a progressive motion in absolute space . As all the bodies of this system naturally partake of this ...
... round its axis in 25 days , 14 hours , and his irregular motion about the cen- tre of gravity of the solar system , he appears to have a progressive motion in absolute space . As all the bodies of this system naturally partake of this ...
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... round him in 87 days , 23 hours , 15 minutes , 44 seconds , at the rate of 109,400 miles an hour . The diameter of this planet is 3,130 miles . Its rotation on its axis is performed in 24 hours , 5 minutes , 28 seconds . Its dis- tance ...
... round him in 87 days , 23 hours , 15 minutes , 44 seconds , at the rate of 109,400 miles an hour . The diameter of this planet is 3,130 miles . Its rotation on its axis is performed in 24 hours , 5 minutes , 28 seconds . Its dis- tance ...
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... round of human existence to which nature and reason entitle them . There are few subjects which draw after them a train of more interesting consequences than female education ; no matter whether we view it as relating to the welfare of ...
... round of human existence to which nature and reason entitle them . There are few subjects which draw after them a train of more interesting consequences than female education ; no matter whether we view it as relating to the welfare of ...
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Página 243 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Página 139 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Página 327 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Página 15 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Página 79 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Página 175 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 228 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Página 244 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Página 375 - There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
Página 374 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.