The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Svazek 51A. Constable, 1830 |
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... stars . This is a degree of perfection equal , perhaps superior , to the wants of navigation and geography ; and , therefore , so far as utility is concerned , astronomy may now be regarded as a finish- ed science , or , at least , as ...
... stars . This is a degree of perfection equal , perhaps superior , to the wants of navigation and geography ; and , therefore , so far as utility is concerned , astronomy may now be regarded as a finish- ed science , or , at least , as ...
Strana 84
... - suration of angular distances in the heavens , was effected in so imperfect a manner , as to be totally inadequate to the detection " of those minute variations in the positions of stars , 84 April , Astronomical Society of London—
... - suration of angular distances in the heavens , was effected in so imperfect a manner , as to be totally inadequate to the detection " of those minute variations in the positions of stars , 84 April , Astronomical Society of London—
Strana 85
Or Critical Journal. of those minute variations in the positions of stars , from which their proper motions , as well as the finer elements of the planet- ary theory , are deduced . In Ptolemy's Tables , the smallest quantities that ...
Or Critical Journal. of those minute variations in the positions of stars , from which their proper motions , as well as the finer elements of the planet- ary theory , are deduced . In Ptolemy's Tables , the smallest quantities that ...
Strana 89
... stars perceived at all , while general motions , of greater magnitude , and of which the laws were entirely unknown , af- fected the whole firmament . Picard , for instance , who intro- duced the micrometer , and who consequently was ...
... stars perceived at all , while general motions , of greater magnitude , and of which the laws were entirely unknown , af- fected the whole firmament . Picard , for instance , who intro- duced the micrometer , and who consequently was ...
Strana 90
... stars , in order to detect such changes as may take place in the state of the heavens , has al- ways been regarded as one of the principal objects of the practical astronomer . It is only , however , of late years , that the catalogues ...
... stars , in order to detect such changes as may take place in the state of the heavens , has al- ways been regarded as one of the principal objects of the practical astronomer . It is only , however , of late years , that the catalogues ...
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Strana 145 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Strana 505 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.
Strana 542 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Strana 205 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Strana 199 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Strana 502 - HERE LIES BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON, Author of the Declaration of Independence, Of the Statutes of Virginia, for religious freedom, And Father of the University of Virginia.
Strana 505 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Strana 494 - I think we shall be so as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
Strana 507 - My mornings are devoted to correspondence. From breakfast to dinner, I am in my shops, my garden, or on horseback among my farms ; from dinner to dark...
Strana 507 - A part of my occupation, and by no means the least pleasing, is the direction of the studies of such young men as ask it. They place themselves in the neighboring village, and have the use of my library and counsel, and make a part of my society.