A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 pages |
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... opposite to the sun , and becomes of a fainter lustre the farther it is from the body : they are compact , fixed , and durable bodies , and their trains are composed of a very thin , slender vapour emitted by the head or nucleus of the ...
... opposite to the sun , and becomes of a fainter lustre the farther it is from the body : they are compact , fixed , and durable bodies , and their trains are composed of a very thin , slender vapour emitted by the head or nucleus of the ...
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... opposite ( avrì ) the Arctic . Now it is this daily revolution of the Earth on it's axis , which brings us day and night , and which causes us to imagine that the sun , planets and stars move round it : this was the common opinion ...
... opposite ( avrì ) the Arctic . Now it is this daily revolution of the Earth on it's axis , which brings us day and night , and which causes us to imagine that the sun , planets and stars move round it : this was the common opinion ...
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... opposite to each other , always stand equally upright and firm . For , if we traversed the whole globe , we should every where have the sky over our heads , and our feet towards the centre of the Earth ; and our Antipodes may as well ...
... opposite to each other , always stand equally upright and firm . For , if we traversed the whole globe , we should every where have the sky over our heads , and our feet towards the centre of the Earth ; and our Antipodes may as well ...
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... opposite to Libra ; inasmuch as the Earth is always in that point of the Ecliptic diametrically opposite to the one in which the Sun appears to be . 28. It has been already said that the Diameter on which the Earth , turns is called ...
... opposite to Libra ; inasmuch as the Earth is always in that point of the Ecliptic diametrically opposite to the one in which the Sun appears to be . 28. It has been already said that the Diameter on which the Earth , turns is called ...
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... opposite to him . Hence it follows , that every place on the Earth , being carried round the Axis of the earth in a uniform manner by the diurnal motion of the Earth , will be as long in the light as in darkness , i . e . the day and ...
... opposite to him . Hence it follows , that every place on the Earth , being carried round the Axis of the earth in a uniform manner by the diurnal motion of the Earth , will be as long in the light as in darkness , i . e . the day and ...
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Page 17 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 498 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 567 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
Page 2 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 516 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
Page xxii - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 2 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 561 - Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
Page 6 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...