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" ... which are separated by vast intervals of time, compressed into a day or an hour, everything like rest in spacial existence will forthwith disappear. We shall find the innumerable hosts of the fixed stars commoved in groups in different directions... "
Kosmos: A General Survey of Physical Phenomena of the Universe - Page 158
by Alexander von Humboldt - 1845
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...find the innumerable hosts of the fixed stars commoved in groups in different directions ; nebulae drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...particular parts, and its veil rent; motion in every part of the vault of heaven.' It is the motion of our own little planet which chiefly adorns the sky...
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The Oxford and Cambridge review, Volume 3

1846 - 698 pages
...shall find the innumerable host of fixed stars, commoved in groups in different directions ; nebula; drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...particular parts, and its veil rent : motion in every point in the vault of heaven, as on the surface of the earth in the germinating, leaf-pushing, flower-unfolding...
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Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...shall find tbe innumerable host of fixed stars, commoved in groups in different directions ; nebulae drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...in the germinating, leaf-pushing, flower-unfolding organums of its vegetable covering. . . . In the aggregate life of nature, organic as well as sidereal,...
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Faust, a tragedy, tr. by capt. [C.H.] Knox

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...shall find the innumerable host of fixed stars, commoved in groups in different directions ; nebulae drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds; the...in the germinating, leaf-pushing, flower-unfolding organums of its vegetable covering. . . . In the aggregate life of nature, organic as well as sidereal...
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The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science

John Harris - 1847 - 330 pages
...find the innumerable hosts of the fixed stars commoved in groups in different directions ; nebula? drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...particular parts, and its veil rent ; motion in every part of the vault of heaven." 2. Now this ideal picture may help us to conceive of * Sir Humphrey Davy's...
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The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science

John Harris - 1850 - 322 pages
...shall find the innumerable hosts of the fixed stars commoved.in groups in different directions; nebulae drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...particular parts, and its veil rent ; motion in every part of the vault of heaven." forces within. Earthquakes shattered and rifted it, and opened, in all...
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The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science

John Harris - 1851 - 368 pages
...find the innumerable hosts of the fixed stars commoved in groups in different directions ; nebulae drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...particular parts, and its veil rent ; motion in every part of the vault of heaven." 2. Now this ideal picture may help us to conceive of scenes which actually...
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The Pre-Adamite Earth: Contributions to Theological Science

John Harris - 1854 - 316 pages
...find the innumerable hosts of the fixed stars commoved in groups in different directions ; nebulae drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds ; the...particular parts, and its veil rent ; motion in every part of the vault of heaven." 2. Now this ideal picture may help us to conceive of scenes which actually...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 2

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1860 - 858 pages
...commoved in groups in different directions; nebulas drawing hither and thither like cosmic clouds; our milky way breaking up in particular parts, and its...of ' seeing grass grow ' by setting the horizontal thread of a micrometer, attached to a powerful telescope, at one time upon the tip of the shoot of...
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Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena. Also, Times and Seasons

Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1863 - 424 pages
...groups in different directions ; nebula* drawing hither and thither, like cosmic clouds; the milky-way breaking up in particular parts, and its veil rent; motion in every part of the vault of heaven.' It is the motion of our own little planet which chiefly adorns the sky...
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