The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 5Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1845 - American literature |
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... star , or the faintest nebula , it has mers , to form any thing like an adequate reached only the visible confines of the conception of those gigantic features of sidereal creation . The universe of stars is magnitude and distance which ...
... star , or the faintest nebula , it has mers , to form any thing like an adequate reached only the visible confines of the conception of those gigantic features of sidereal creation . The universe of stars is magnitude and distance which ...
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... stars , displayed to Galileo no fewer than forty . The discoveries thus made with the in- struments of the Professor of Padua , direc- ted the attention of philosophers in various parts of Europe , to the improvements of the refracting ...
... stars , displayed to Galileo no fewer than forty . The discoveries thus made with the in- struments of the Professor of Padua , direc- ted the attention of philosophers in various parts of Europe , to the improvements of the refracting ...
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... star in the neck of the Whale , and on the Lunar Mountains ; Having acquired a taste for astronomy , but interesting though these were , they and a general knowledge of the science sunk into insignificance when compared from the popular ...
... star in the neck of the Whale , and on the Lunar Mountains ; Having acquired a taste for astronomy , but interesting though these were , they and a general knowledge of the science sunk into insignificance when compared from the popular ...
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... stars which had been published by tronomers of all nations anticipated with Messier and Mechain , could be resolved delight the future labors of the discoverer ; into an infinite number of small stars ; and and the name of Herschel ...
... stars which had been published by tronomers of all nations anticipated with Messier and Mechain , could be resolved delight the future labors of the discoverer ; into an infinite number of small stars ; and and the name of Herschel ...
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... stars , or however , disappointment is often a stimulus in their angle of position , that is , in the to higher achievements , and the double ac- angle which a line joining the stars forms cident which we have mentioned suggested , with ...
... stars , or however , disappointment is often a stimulus in their angle of position , that is , in the to higher achievements , and the double ac- angle which a line joining the stars forms cident which we have mentioned suggested , with ...
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Page 504 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 519 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 169 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Page 279 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 279 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 504 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce or add a furbelow.
Page 125 - Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings...
Page 329 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 279 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 8 - Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation...