The Monthly Repository & Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volum 1F. S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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Pàgina 10
... round from east to west , and the same phase is presented only once in twenty - five days , fourteen hours , and eight minutes , the time in which he performs a complete revolution . Dr. Herschel imagined that these dark spots on the ...
... round from east to west , and the same phase is presented only once in twenty - five days , fourteen hours , and eight minutes , the time in which he performs a complete revolution . Dr. Herschel imagined that these dark spots on the ...
Pàgina 11
... round is travelled by the earth and all its inhabitants in 365 days , 6 hours , 9 minutes , and 12 seconds , at the mean rate of 68 000 miles an hour . CABINET OF NATURE . EARTHQUAKES . Earthquakes are certainly the most terrible appear ...
... round is travelled by the earth and all its inhabitants in 365 days , 6 hours , 9 minutes , and 12 seconds , at the mean rate of 68 000 miles an hour . CABINET OF NATURE . EARTHQUAKES . Earthquakes are certainly the most terrible appear ...
Pàgina 43
... round its axis in 25 days , 14 hours , and his irregular motion about the cen- tre of gravity of the solar system , he appears to have a progressive motion in absolute space . As all the bodies of this system naturally partake of this ...
... round its axis in 25 days , 14 hours , and his irregular motion about the cen- tre of gravity of the solar system , he appears to have a progressive motion in absolute space . As all the bodies of this system naturally partake of this ...
Pàgina 45
... round him in 87 days , 23 hours , 15 minutes , 44 seconds , at the rate of 109,400 miles an hour . The diameter of this planet is 3,130 miles . Its rotation on its axis is performed in 24 hours , 5 minutes , 28 seconds . Its dis- tance ...
... round him in 87 days , 23 hours , 15 minutes , 44 seconds , at the rate of 109,400 miles an hour . The diameter of this planet is 3,130 miles . Its rotation on its axis is performed in 24 hours , 5 minutes , 28 seconds . Its dis- tance ...
Pàgina 67
... round of human existence to which nature and reason entitle them . There are few subjects which draw after them a train of more interesting consequences than female education ; no matter whether we view it as relating to the welfare of ...
... round of human existence to which nature and reason entitle them . There are few subjects which draw after them a train of more interesting consequences than female education ; no matter whether we view it as relating to the welfare of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 340 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pàgina 237 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth ; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Pàgina 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Pàgina 320 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Pàgina 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Pàgina 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Pàgina 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Pàgina 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Pàgina 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Pàgina 271 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man!