Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, 第 2 巻H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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46 ページ - The trees of the Lord are full of sap ; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
47 ページ - The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
xi ページ - Blüte des frühen, die Früchte des späteren Jahres, Willst du, was reizt und entzückt, willst du, was sättigt und nährt, Willst du den Himmel, die Erde mit einem Namen begreifen, Nenn...
293 ページ - Io mi volsi a man destra, e posi mente All' altro polo, e vidi quattro stelle Non viste mai fuor che alla prima gente.
xvii ページ - Vi claramente visto o lume vivo, Que a maritima gente tem por santo, Em tempo de tormenta e vento esquivo, De tempestade escura e triste pranto.
cxviii ページ - This faculty is of the greatest value in physical inquiries. If we use it as a guide, and confide in its indications, it will infallibly deceive us ; but if we employ it as an auxiliary, it will afford us the most invaluable aid.
47 ページ - We are astonished to see, within the compass of a poem of' such small dimension, the universe, the heavens and the earth, thus drawn with a few grand strokes.
xcviii ページ - Nos parece que seria bien que llevasedes con vos un buen Estrologo, y nos parescia que seria bueno para esto Fray Antonio de Marchena, porque es buen Estrologo, y siempre nos parecio que se conformaba con vuestro parecer.
248 ページ - Cofnioyraphicus de Natura Locorum, is a species of physical geography. I have found in it considerations on the dependence of temperature concurrently on latitude and elevation, and on the effect of different angles of incidence of the sun's rays in heating the ground, which have excited my surprise.'* Jourdain, another modern critic, says, ' whether we consider him as a theologian or a philosopher.
98 ページ - that we seek in the pleasures of a garden ! It has always been agreed that these plantations should make men amends for living at a distance from what would be their more congenial and agreeable dwelling-place — in the midst of nature, free and unconstrained. ( The art of laying out gardens consists, therefore, in combining cheerfulness of prospect, luxuriance of growth, shade, retirement and regose ; so that the rural aspect may produce an illusion.