 THE natural advantages which arise from the position of the earth which we inhabit with respect to the other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of...  Astronomical and geographical essays - Page 83by George Adams - 1812 - 518 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be, perhaps, observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe... | |
 | 1803 - 196 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculations, by which it has been discovered that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may perhaps be observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation ; hy which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | George Adams - 1812 - 552 pages
...proofs of that DIVINE WISDOM which pervades all the works of GOD ; and see that no other conforma tion of the system could have given such commodious distributions...The changes in the position of the terminator are occasioned—1. By the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, or orbit in which... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 pages
...other planets, afford much employment to mathematical speculation, by which it has been discovered, that no other conformation of the system could have...imparted fertility and pleasure to so great a part of a revolving sphere. It may be perhaps observed by the moralist, with equal reason, that our globe seems... | |
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