The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through CreationW.S. Orr, 1848 - 803 pages |
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... Italy , but a feeling of indifference was displayed to the practical science of Alexandria . This repugnance of the Roman mind at home to ma- thematics and physics , together with the prevalence of its military despotism abroad , which ...
... Italy , but a feeling of indifference was displayed to the practical science of Alexandria . This repugnance of the Roman mind at home to ma- thematics and physics , together with the prevalence of its military despotism abroad , which ...
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... Italy in 1497 , studying the science under Dominic Maria , and settled for a time at Rome as a teacher of mathematics , where he established a considerable reputation . His uncle , who was a dignified ecclesiastic , bishop of Ermeland ...
... Italy in 1497 , studying the science under Dominic Maria , and settled for a time at Rome as a teacher of mathematics , where he established a considerable reputation . His uncle , who was a dignified ecclesiastic , bishop of Ermeland ...
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... Italy , that it is more than probable that Galileo regarded the service imposed upon him as a church ceremony , through which , as a son of the church , he was bound to go , without being responsible for its demerits . The sorrows that ...
... Italy , that it is more than probable that Galileo regarded the service imposed upon him as a church ceremony , through which , as a son of the church , he was bound to go , without being responsible for its demerits . The sorrows that ...
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... Italy by Galileo . The procession had been joined by Holland , France , and England , before the middle of the seventeenth century ; but it will be impracticable to record the labours , or even mention the names , of those who were then ...
... Italy by Galileo . The procession had been joined by Holland , France , and England , before the middle of the seventeenth century ; but it will be impracticable to record the labours , or even mention the names , of those who were then ...
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... Italy , that of July 8th , 1842 , which led Schumacher to Vienna , Arago to Perpignan , and Airy to Turin , is described as having been a singularly striking and solemn spectacle . " Yet a moment , " wrote an observer , " and on a ...
... Italy , that of July 8th , 1842 , which led Schumacher to Vienna , Arago to Perpignan , and Airy to Turin , is described as having been a singularly striking and solemn spectacle . " Yet a moment , " wrote an observer , " and on a ...
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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No preview available - 2015 |
The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation Thomas Milner No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 689 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Page 552 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 74 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 571 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 326 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 180 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 574 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron: and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Page 536 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Page 692 - Where glistening streamers waved and danced, The wanderer's eye could barely view The summer heaven's delicious blue ; So wondrous wild, the whole might seem The scenery of a fairy dream.
Page 288 - And what are we, That hear the question of that voice sublime? Oh, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet, by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life, to thy unceasing roar? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to Him Who drowned a world, and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains? — a light wave, That breaks, and whispers of its Maker's might.