 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 pages
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule; variety without progressive improvement; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact, obeying, to the letter,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 pages
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule ; variety without progressive improvement ; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact, obeying, to the letter,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 pages
...reigned a succession of changes reducible to no apparent rule ; variety without progressive improvement ; years of unequal length and seasons of capricious...portentous size and aspect, glaring and disappearing at nucertain intervals, and every part of the system wearing the appearance of anarchy, though, in fact,... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1834 - 388 pages
...finally, in referring to the assumed laws of attraction, p. 161, "If the positions of the planetary orbs, with respect to that of the earth, were to change...sweeping over whole continents ; and, perhaps, the collisions of two of the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organization on both of them,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 504 pages
...earth, were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus increase the effect of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of the heavenly bodies, which have... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 300 pages
...earth, were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus increase the effect of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...consequent destruction of all organization on both of them. The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of the heavenly bodies, which have... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pages
...earth, were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus increase the effect of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...destruction of all organization on both of them.' The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of the heavenly bodies, which have... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...earth every revolution ; it is easy to see that in the one case our year would change its character ; in the other, our satellite might finally fall to...aspect, glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals j" tides like deluges, sweepmg over whole continents ; and, perhaps, the collision of two of the planets,... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 366 pages
...earth, were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus increase the effect of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organisation on both of them.' The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1851 - 374 pages
...earth, were to change much, the planets might sometimes come very near us, and thus increase the effect of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under...the planets, and the consequent destruction of all organisation on both of them.' The fact really is, that changes are taking place in the motions of... | |
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... of their attraction beyond calculable limits. Under such circumstances we might have years of unequal length, and seasons of capricious temperature ; planets and moons of portentous size and aspect glaring and disappearing at uncertain intervals ;... 
