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... ( owing to the curvature of the earth ) it is below the visible horizon of his eye ; but , as it sails towards him , he will see it's topmasts when it gets to the point f , and finally the whole vessel at the point g . 23. It is also by ...
... ( owing to the curvature of the earth ) it is below the visible horizon of his eye ; but , as it sails towards him , he will see it's topmasts when it gets to the point f , and finally the whole vessel at the point g . 23. It is also by ...
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... owing to the elliptical orbit of the Earth , and to the Earth not being in the centre of this ellipsis but in one of it's foci . For , as the Sun's diameter appears less about the middle of June , and greater about the middle of ...
... owing to the elliptical orbit of the Earth , and to the Earth not being in the centre of this ellipsis but in one of it's foci . For , as the Sun's diameter appears less about the middle of June , and greater about the middle of ...
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... owing to the Earth and Moon being smaller bodies than the Sun : were they the same size as the Sun , it is evident that the shadows must be cylindrical ( as in fig . 8 ) , and were they larger than the Sun , the shadows would be like ...
... owing to the Earth and Moon being smaller bodies than the Sun : were they the same size as the Sun , it is evident that the shadows must be cylindrical ( as in fig . 8 ) , and were they larger than the Sun , the shadows would be like ...
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... owing to the Moon being in her Apogee : it may be better understood by referring to Plate II . fig . 7 , and supposing S to represent the Sun , T the Moon and E the Earth .—- In the greatest eclipses of the Sun , the Moon's shadow ...
... owing to the Moon being in her Apogee : it may be better understood by referring to Plate II . fig . 7 , and supposing S to represent the Sun , T the Moon and E the Earth .—- In the greatest eclipses of the Sun , the Moon's shadow ...
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... owing to it's being within the two Tropics , the Sun passes twice a year , through the Zenith of every place in it : the ancients fancied the Torrid Zone was more elevated than the rest of the earth , and therefore so scorched by the ...
... owing to it's being within the two Tropics , the Sun passes twice a year , through the Zenith of every place in it : the ancients fancied the Torrid Zone was more elevated than the rest of the earth , and therefore so scorched by the ...
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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...