Belgravia, Том 32Willmer & Rogers, 1877 |
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... comet . Moreover , like the other fixed stars , it kept its place unchanged , showing unmistakably that it belonged to the star- depths , not to nearer regions . It was exactly like one of the stars , except that in the vividness of its ...
... comet . Moreover , like the other fixed stars , it kept its place unchanged , showing unmistakably that it belonged to the star- depths , not to nearer regions . It was exactly like one of the stars , except that in the vividness of its ...
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... comet ! " ' He made a diagram of the constellation , showing the place of the new star correctly . Unfortunately , Mr. Walter does not state why he is so confident , a year after the event , that it was on the 12th of May , and not on ...
... comet ! " ' He made a diagram of the constellation , showing the place of the new star correctly . Unfortunately , Mr. Walter does not state why he is so confident , a year after the event , that it was on the 12th of May , and not on ...
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... comet being probably ( many certainly ) attended by flights of meteoric masses . The meteors which produce the celebrated November showers of falling stars follow in the track of a comet invisible to the naked eye . May we not ...
... comet being probably ( many certainly ) attended by flights of meteoric masses . The meteors which produce the celebrated November showers of falling stars follow in the track of a comet invisible to the naked eye . May we not ...
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... comet , with its tail a hundred millions of miles in length , all but grazed the sun's globe . The comet of 1843 , whose tail , says Sir J. Herschel , stretched half- way across the sky , ' must actually have grazed the sun , though but ...
... comet , with its tail a hundred millions of miles in length , all but grazed the sun's globe . The comet of 1843 , whose tail , says Sir J. Herschel , stretched half- way across the sky , ' must actually have grazed the sun , though but ...
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... comet , bearing in its train a flight of many millions of meteoric masses , and falling directly upon the sun , would produce an accession of light and heat , whose conse- quences would be disastrous ? When the earth has passed through ...
... comet , bearing in its train a flight of many millions of meteoric masses , and falling directly upon the sun , would produce an accession of light and heat , whose conse- quences would be disastrous ? When the earth has passed through ...
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Сторінка 31 - ... and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapour of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Сторінка 442 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Сторінка 495 - And the Naiad-like lily of the vale, Whom youth makes so fair and passion so pale, That the light of its tremulous bells is seen Through their pavilions of tender green...
Сторінка 442 - And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...
Сторінка 194 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head. Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies: The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye...
Сторінка 293 - I WILL now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul ; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked ways in the very bitterness of my remembrance, that Thou mayest grow sweet unto me...
Сторінка 469 - TELL me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman ? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither of them the fairer woman ? Where is Echo, beheld of no man, Only heard on river and mere, — She whose beauty was more than human? . . . But where are the snows of yester-year?
Сторінка 207 - I must confess, had so much of the common notion of such things in my head, that I was apt to look upon them as the forerunners and warnings of God's judgments; and especially when, after the Plague had followed the first, I yet saw another of the like kind, I could not but say, God had not yet sufficiently scourged the city.
Сторінка 47 - America, the electric signal-men received severe electric shocks. At a station in Norway the telegraphic apparatus was set fire to ; and at Boston, in North America, a flame of fire followed the pen of Bain's electric telegraph, which writes down the message upon chemically prepared paper.
Сторінка 206 - ... dull, languid colour, and its motion very heavy, solemn, and slow; but that the comet before the fire was bright and sparkling, or, as others said, flaming, and its motion swift and furious...