 | Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 pages
...darkness of this eclipse was attended, of which most spectators were sensible, and equally judges ; or the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals,...could not behold it without some sense of horror." 327. If a conjunction of the sun and moon happen at, or very near, the node, there will be a great... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1820 - 472 pages
...darkness of this eclipse was attended, of which most spectators were sensible, and equally judges; or the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals,...could not behold it without some sense of horror." (327.) If a conjunction of the sun and moon happen at, or very near, the node, there will be a great... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...damp which attended this ech'pse, of which most spectators were sensible and equally judges, as also the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals, birds, beasts and fishes, in the extinction of the gu»j which we ourselves could not behold without some sense of horror." Jn... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1832 - 412 pages
...shade. I forbear to mention the chill and damp with which the darkness of this eclipse was attended ; or the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals,...the sun, since ourselves could not behold it without emotion." CHAPTER XXXI. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. THE following illustration of the transit of Venus, which... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1845 - 370 pages
...shade. I forbear to mention the chill and damp with which the darkness of this eclipse was attended ; or the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals,...the sun. since ourselves could not behold it without emotion." CHAPTER XXXI. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. THE following illustration of the transit of Venvt, which... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1856 - 622 pages
...cases. " I forbear," he says, in his communication to the Royal Society on the eclipses of 1715, " to mention the chill and damp which attended the darkness...trouble you with the concern that appeared in all sorte of animals, birds, beasts, and fishes, upon the extinction of the sun, since ourselves could... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...an interval of five hundred and seventy-five years. " I forbear," he observed, addressing the Boyal Society, "to mention the chill and damp which attended...could not behold it without some sense of horror." One of his correspondents who was stationed on an eminence on Salisbury Plain, wrote to him as follows... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1869 - 664 pages
...darkness of this eclipse was attended, of which most spectators were sensible, and equally judges, or the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals,...could not behold it without some sense of horror." At Geneva, during this eclipse, Mercury, Venus, and Saturn, were seen, and to spectators on the mountains... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 806 pages
...total eclipse which was visible in London. It took place in the year 1715. " I forbear," says Halley, "to mention the chill and damp which attended the...upon the extinction of the sun, since ourselves could hardly behold it without some sense of herror." The eclipse of May 2, 1788, is remarkable as being... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 334 pages
...total eclipse which was visible in London. It took place in the year 1715. ' I forbear,' says Halley, 'to mention the chill and damp which attended the...upon the extinction of the sun, since ourselves could hardly behold it without some sense of horror.' The eclipse of May 2, 1733, is remarkable as being... | |
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I forbear to mention the chill and damp with which the darkness of this eclipse was attended, of which most spectators were sensible, and equally judges, or the concern that appeared in all sorts of animals, birds, beasts, and fishes upon the extinction... 
