| 1841 - 682 pages
...afford a planet circulating around either; and what cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes,—a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness,—might arise from the presence or absence of one or other or both, from the horizon!'" We... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 812 pages
...green, or a yellow and blue one — must afford a planet circulating around either ; and ifhat cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes (a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one, or with darkness) must arise from the presence or absence of one or other, or both, from the horizon."... | |
| Michael J. Crowe - 1986 - 708 pages
...- a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one must afford a planet circulating about either; and what charming contrasts and 'grateful vicissitudes,' - a red and a green day, for instance. . . ."" Herschel's Treatise on Astronomy and his Outlines of Astronomy contain no special section on... | |
| Denison Olmsted - 1840 - 458 pages
...afford to a planet circulating about either ; and what charming contrasts and c grateful vicissitudes5 a red and a green day, for instance, alternating with...absence of one or other or both above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red color, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens... | |
| 1888 - 920 pages
...suns, a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one, must afford a planet circulating about either; and what charming contrasts and 'grateful vicissitudes,'...one, and with darkness, might arise from the presence and absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon." It is manifestly supposed here that the circulating... | |
| George Chaplin Child - 1867 - 392 pages
...planet circulating round either, and what charming contrasts and grateful vicissitudes — a red aad a green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness — must arise from the presence or absence of one or other or both, from the horizon." The most striking... | |
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