Lighted Lore for Gentle FolkMorningside Publishing Company, 1902 - Počet stran: 305 |
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Strana 158
... diameter ; and its tail was one hun- dred and fifteen millions of miles in length , while its aphelion distance was computed at forty billion miles . This comet is expected to return in three thousand years . Halley's comet of 1833 was ...
... diameter ; and its tail was one hun- dred and fifteen millions of miles in length , while its aphelion distance was computed at forty billion miles . This comet is expected to return in three thousand years . Halley's comet of 1833 was ...
Strana 267
... diameter , with a focal length of sixty - three feet . This instrument is in the observatory at Geneva Lake , Wis .; only thirty - five inches added to the diameter of Galileo's glass in one hundred and seventy years . We believe that ...
... diameter , with a focal length of sixty - three feet . This instrument is in the observatory at Geneva Lake , Wis .; only thirty - five inches added to the diameter of Galileo's glass in one hundred and seventy years . We believe that ...
Strana 268
... diameter , has a focal length of thirty - one and one half feet , and cost fifty thousand dollars . The eighteen inch glass at Cambridge , and the twenty - four inch glass at Prince- ton , are of the Clarks ' finishing . All large ...
... diameter , has a focal length of thirty - one and one half feet , and cost fifty thousand dollars . The eighteen inch glass at Cambridge , and the twenty - four inch glass at Prince- ton , are of the Clarks ' finishing . All large ...
Strana 272
... diameter , revolv- ing on his axis once in about twenty - five days . And there can be no doubt as to his having an annual motion like that of the planets , in their revolution , or circuit , around him ; but at the present time , there ...
... diameter , revolv- ing on his axis once in about twenty - five days . And there can be no doubt as to his having an annual motion like that of the planets , in their revolution , or circuit , around him ; but at the present time , there ...
Strana 276
... diameter , and represent almost every variety of form and shape . Some of the largest and most noted of these spots are " spanned with glowing bridges , " many thousands of miles in length and height . It should be borne in mind , that ...
... diameter , and represent almost every variety of form and shape . Some of the largest and most noted of these spots are " spanned with glowing bridges , " many thousands of miles in length and height . It should be borne in mind , that ...
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Strana 171 - Order is Heaven's first law ; and, this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise : but who infers from hence That such are happier shocks all commonsense.
Strana 128 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, .He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Strana 293 - Shall shape and shadow overflow, I cannot feel that thou art far, Since near at need the angels are; And when the sunset gates unbar, Shall I not see thee waiting stand, And, white against the evening star, The welcome of thy beckoning hand?
Strana 133 - The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart : The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure ; The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
Strana 132 - Let me write the songs of a people, and I care not who makes their laws.
Strana 104 - THINK the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Strana 171 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions; it loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels...
Strana 110 - Pride, like ambition, is sometimes virtuous and sometimes vicious, according to the character in which it is found, and the object to which it is directed.
Strana 219 - God hath made of one blood all the nations of the earth...
Strana 89 - This is thy work, almighty Providence ! Whose power, beyond the stretch of human thought, Revolves the orbs of empire; bids them sink Deep in the deadning night of thy displeasure, Or rise majestic o'er a wondering world.