 ... 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, alternating with a white one and with darkness, —...  Student's Class Book of Astronomy - Page 195by Francis Bullock - 1873 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pages
...what variety of illumination two suns, a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one, must afford to a planet circulating about either ; and what charming...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... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 604 pages
...vartety of illumination two suns — a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford to a planet circulating about either ; and what charming...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens... | |
 | Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1843 - 344 pages
...illumination tw, suns — a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford to a planet revolving about either ; and what charming contrasts and grateful...might arise from the presence or absence of one or the other, or both, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 290 pages
...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, above the horizon. Insulated stars of a red colour, almost as deep as that of blood, occur in many parts of the heavens... | |
 | 1844 - 766 pages
...planet circulating about cither ; and what charming contrasts and grateful vicissitudes — a red and green day, for instance, alternating with a white...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon." With such scenes it may be part of our redeemed privileges to be put in communication (connected as... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 pages
...somewhat amusing remarks : — " It may be easier suggested in words, than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two suns, — a red and...absence of one or other, or both, above the horizon."! Without entering into this speculation, which, of course, is taken from the views and tastes of human... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...variety of illumination two suns — a red and a green, or a yellow and a blue one — must afford to a planet circulating about either ; and what charming...absence of one or other, or both above the horizon." Here we have another example of that beautiful variety combined with evidences of sameness which we... | |
 | John Pringle Nichol - 1848 - 294 pages
...vicissitudes, a red and 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 !" All the products of the material constitution of this earth, the character of its... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - 1849 - 290 pages
...— a red and a green, or a * Sir John Herschel's Treatise on Astronomy, t Paradise Lost, viii., 148. yellow and a blue one — must afford a planet circulating...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,... | |
 | Hiram Mattison - 1849 - 304 pages
...charming contrasts and ' grateful vicissitudes' — a red and a green day, for instance, alter, nating with a white one and with darkness — might arise...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,... | |
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