 | Charles Baker - 1857 - 438 pages
...small orange on a circle of four-fifths of a mile; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." While the telescope has revealed to us many of the distant orbs of creation, the microscope has exhibited... | |
 | Hollis Read - 1859 - 420 pages
...a small orange on a circle four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full sized cherry or a small plum on the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." This, at a mere glance, develops a pleasing variety throughout ; yet a few details will throw over... | |
 | 1859 - 396 pages
...small oranye on a circle of four fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a full-sized cherry or small plum upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter." PROVERBS. — Use soft words and hard arguments. Understanding without wealth is like feet without... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1859 - 438 pages
...orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus, a fullsized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half m diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or still worse,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1860 - 230 pages
...orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; and Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or still worse, from those... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1860 - 484 pages
...small orange, on a circle of four-fifth? of a mile ; Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half; and Neptune a good-sized plum, on a circle about two miles and a half in diameter." 952. KEPLER'S LAWS.... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1860 - 468 pages
...small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile; Uranus a full-sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of 'a circle more than a mile and a half; and Neptune a good-sized plum, on a circle about two miles and a half in diameter." 952. KEPLER'S LAWS.—The... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1860 - 316 pages
...small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile ; Uranus a full-sized cherry, or a small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half; and Neptune a good-sized plum on a circle about two miles and a half in diameter. An to getting correct... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1860 - 614 pages
...small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile; Uranus a full -sized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half, and Neptune a good-sized plum on a circle about two miles and a half in diameter. As to getting correct... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1861 - 364 pages
...orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mil e; and Uranus, a fullsized cherry, or small plum, upon the circumference of a circle more than a mile and a half in diameter. As to getting correct notions on this subject by drawing circles on paper, or still worse, from those... | |
| |
Jupiter a moderate-sized orange, in a circle nearly half a mile across; Saturn a small orange, on a circle of four-fifths of a mile... 
