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... seen but once before in my day , and in all human probability will not be seen again in this generation , was so strong as to overcome all scruples of delicacy . It was a serene October evening , admirably adapted for observation . The ...
... seen but once before in my day , and in all human probability will not be seen again in this generation , was so strong as to overcome all scruples of delicacy . It was a serene October evening , admirably adapted for observation . The ...
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... Seen in either way it was an ob- ject never to be forgotten . The nucleus was nearly equal to its neighbor Arcturus in brightness , and the curving tail shot upward through about fifty degrees , a length of forty - five millions of ...
... Seen in either way it was an ob- ject never to be forgotten . The nucleus was nearly equal to its neighbor Arcturus in brightness , and the curving tail shot upward through about fifty degrees , a length of forty - five millions of ...
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... seen through the tail , and that too very near the nucleus . In fact , to persons not accustomed to look through powerful glasses , and consequently not making due allowance for their effect , in diminishing the field of view , the ...
... seen through the tail , and that too very near the nucleus . In fact , to persons not accustomed to look through powerful glasses , and consequently not making due allowance for their effect , in diminishing the field of view , the ...
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... seen through the great tele- scope , some idea of it may be formed from the observa- tion , that it was in a state of intense action and violent move- ment . An active evolution of the particles of matter , of which the comet is ...
... seen through the great tele- scope , some idea of it may be formed from the observa- tion , that it was in a state of intense action and violent move- ment . An active evolution of the particles of matter , of which the comet is ...
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... seen as a faint nebulosity by Professor Donati at Flor- ence , in Italy , near the star Lambda , in the Constellation of the Lion . Its distance from the sun was then about two hundred millions of miles ; -that from the earth still ...
... seen as a faint nebulosity by Professor Donati at Flor- ence , in Italy , near the star Lambda , in the Constellation of the Lion . Its distance from the sun was then about two hundred millions of miles ; -that from the earth still ...
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70 ページ - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other God ; at which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him •where the stranger was : he replied, ' I thrust him away, because he did not worship thee.
69 ページ - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, creator of heaven and earth ? 7.
47 ページ - Its road in the heavens was observed with exquisite skill by Flamstead and Cassini: and the mathematical science of Bernoulli, Newton, and Halley, investigated the laws of its revolutions. At the eighth period, in the year two thousand two hundred and fifty-five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness.
15 ページ - But peaceful was the night, Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
460 ページ - Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick canebrake upon us, and made us prisoners.
40 ページ - MYSTERIOUS Night ! When our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came, And lo ! creation widened in man's view.
24 ページ - I failed entirely in arithmetic. At ten years old I was taken to help my father in his business, which was that of a tallowchandler and soap-boiler ; a business to which he was not bred, but had assumed on his arrival in New England, because he found that his dyeing trade, being in little request, would not maintain his family. Accordingly, I was employed in cutting wicks for the candles, filling the moulds for cast candles, attending the shop, going of errands, &c. I disliked the trade, and had...
179 ページ - If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I dined upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet.
177 ページ - Lawfull heart, John, is it You? - how de do! Where in the world are you going with this woman? Who is she?
260 ページ - You •will rejoice with me that the great nebula in Orion has yielded to the powers of our incomparable telescope!