Electricity and the Electric Telegraph: Together with the Chemistry of the Stars ; an Argument Touching the Stars and Their InhabitantsLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852 - 127 psl. |
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20 psl. - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
21 psl. - Oh dream of joy! is this indeed The lighthouse top I see? Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree? We drifted o'er the harbour-bar, And I with sobs did pray— 'O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
19 psl. - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
28 psl. - This remarkable fact has seemed to many to justify the belief, that other worlds have been constructed out of the same materials as our own. It is thus, for example, turned to account by the author of the " Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.
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22 psl. - ... in the intensities of the gravitating forces which must subsist at their surfaces, or the different ratios which, on their several globes, the inertia of bodies must bear to their weights ; and, thirdly, the difference in the nature of the materials of which, from what we know of their mean density, we have every reason to believe they consist.
10 psl. - ... for anything experience has hitherto taught us, the number of the stars may be really infinite, in the only sense in which we can assign a meaning to the word.
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