The midnight sky, notes on the stars and planets, Volume 68

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Page 137 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 178 - Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years. And let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth ; and it was so.
Page 178 - And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 73 - 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 60 - It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend!
Page 167 - A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Page 162 - Th' illustrious stranger passing, terror sheds On gazing nations, from his fiery train Of length enormous ; takes his ample round Through depths of ether; coasts unnumber'd...
Page 77 - Uranus and Saturn about the sun; and the correspondence between their calculated and observed places in such very elongated ellipses must be admitted to carry with it proof of the prevalence of the Newtonian law of gravity in their systems, of the very same nature and cogency as that of the calculated and observed places of comets round the central body of our own.
Page 108 - To God's eternal house direct the way A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars...
Page 77 - Take the glass, And search the skies. The opening skies pour down Upon your gaze thick showers of sparkling fire — Stars, crowded, thronged, in regions so remote That their swift beams — the swiftest things that be — Have travelled centuries on their flight to earth.

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