The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 2Francis S. Wiggins, 1832 |
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which have been observed in the material world , re- specting magnitude and motion . In the first place , the immense quantity of matter con- tained in the universe , presents a most striking display of Almighty power . In endeavoring ...
which have been observed in the material world , re- specting magnitude and motion . In the first place , the immense quantity of matter con- tained in the universe , presents a most striking display of Almighty power . In endeavoring ...
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... motion , like the motion of the other planets , is some- times direct , occasionally retrograde , and at other times he appears stationary . His daily motion is through thirty - one minutes , twenty - six seconds , thirty - eight thirds ...
... motion , like the motion of the other planets , is some- times direct , occasionally retrograde , and at other times he appears stationary . His daily motion is through thirty - one minutes , twenty - six seconds , thirty - eight thirds ...
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... motion . " Jupiter is surrounded by faint substances called belts , in which so many changes appear , that they are thought to be clouds ; for some of them have been first interrupted and broken , and then have entirely disappeared ...
... motion . " Jupiter is surrounded by faint substances called belts , in which so many changes appear , that they are thought to be clouds ; for some of them have been first interrupted and broken , and then have entirely disappeared ...
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... motion of Jupiter appears sometimes direct , and sometimes retrograde ; whilst at other times he appears stationary . His mo- tion is retrograde during one hundred and nineteen days , and he remains stationary four days . PHILIP GARRETT ...
... motion of Jupiter appears sometimes direct , and sometimes retrograde ; whilst at other times he appears stationary . His mo- tion is retrograde during one hundred and nineteen days , and he remains stationary four days . PHILIP GARRETT ...
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... motion , would not traverse in ten hundred thousand years . In those trackless re- gions of immensity , we behold an assemblage of re- splendent globes , similar to the sun in size , and in glory , and doubtless , accompanied with a ...
... motion , would not traverse in ten hundred thousand years . In those trackless re- gions of immensity , we behold an assemblage of re- splendent globes , similar to the sun in size , and in glory , and doubtless , accompanied with a ...
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Page 299 - Temple of it ;" — that city from above, which hath " no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it ; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 18 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 273 - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Page 319 - There are- many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Page 406 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — (" Treason," cried the Speaker — " treason, treason ", echoed from every part of the House.
Page 31 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Page 61 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 79 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Page 233 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Page 249 - THERE'S beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise...