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... COLOURED SUNS • . 220 WORLDS LIT BY COLOURED SUNS . 229 THE KING OF SUNS • 238 FOUR ORDERS OF SUNS . 247 THE DEPTHS OF SPACE . 256 CHARTING THE STAR DEPTHS . 266 THE STAR DEPTHS ASTIR WITH LIFE . 276 THE DRIFTING STARS . 286 THE MILKY ...
... COLOURED SUNS • . 220 WORLDS LIT BY COLOURED SUNS . 229 THE KING OF SUNS • 238 FOUR ORDERS OF SUNS . 247 THE DEPTHS OF SPACE . 256 CHARTING THE STAR DEPTHS . 266 THE STAR DEPTHS ASTIR WITH LIFE . 276 THE DRIFTING STARS . 286 THE MILKY ...
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... colour . I paid a visit to this small body , which was travelling , I found , at a distance of about five hundred ... coloured , being striped with red and yellow and purple and brown belts , which seemed to me to owe their regularity of ...
... colour . I paid a visit to this small body , which was travelling , I found , at a distance of about five hundred ... coloured , being striped with red and yellow and purple and brown belts , which seemed to me to owe their regularity of ...
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... coloured prominences and the sierra , the glowing inner corona , and the radiated fainter glory which lies outside the corona - would have been altogether unknown to us . But we should scarcely have learned more if the moon had had a ...
... coloured prominences and the sierra , the glowing inner corona , and the radiated fainter glory which lies outside the corona - would have been altogether unknown to us . But we should scarcely have learned more if the moon had had a ...
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... coloured chart of Mars on the Stereographic projection is given in ' Other Worlds , ' and a chart on Mercator's Projection in ' Orbs Around Us . ' From these charts globes of the planet have been formed by Mr. Browning , the optician ...
... coloured chart of Mars on the Stereographic projection is given in ' Other Worlds , ' and a chart on Mercator's Projection in ' Orbs Around Us . ' From these charts globes of the planet have been formed by Mr. Browning , the optician ...
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... colours , while some of his belts present an actual 1 Everyone who has seen the moon by day , when there are small summer clouds in the sky under full illumination ... colour , as though there were red - hot 5 Jupiter's Family of Moons . 91.
... colours , while some of his belts present an actual 1 Everyone who has seen the moon by day , when there are small summer clouds in the sky under full illumination ... colour , as though there were red - hot 5 Jupiter's Family of Moons . 91.
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Page 105 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell ; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 201 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of GOD the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished : but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 1 - Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not ; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
Page 105 - Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.
Page 219 - MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue.
Page 10 - Praise ye the Lord. 1_48 Praise ve the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens : Praise Him in the heights. Praise ye Him, all His angels : Praise ye Him, all His hosts. Praise ye Him, sun and moon : Praise Him, all ye stars of light.
Page 52 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 53 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle: they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 10 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 58 - To ask or search I blame thee not, for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works, and learn His seasons, hours, or days, or months, or years.