| 1829 - 632 pages
...philosopher, Milton, in his inimitable poem. Paradise Lost, has die following passage. • Some say He bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more from the ion's axle ; they with labour pusli'd OWiqoe the centric globe : some say the sun Vas bid turn from... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 580 pages
...air, and shore, the thunder when to roll With terror through the dark aereal hall. Some say he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more 665 668. Some say he bid his angels &c.] It was eternal spring (iv. 268.) before the fall ; and he... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 572 pages
...air, and shore, the thunder when to roll With terror through the dark aereal hall. Some say he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more 939 665 668. Some fay he bvl his angels &C.] It was eternal spring (iv. 268.) before the fall; and... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1828 - 262 pages
...sloped about 23 degrees and a half out of the perpen dicular, as it is described by Milton: He bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and morn From the sun's axle. In this case you observe, that all the parallel circles, except the equator,... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...air, and shore, the thunder when to roll "With horror through the dark aereal hall. Some say he hid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more J'rcm the sun's axle ; they with lahour push'd Ohlique the centric glohe. Seme say the sun "Was hid... | |
| William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 646 pages
...askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more From the sun's axle, &c.—Paradise Lost, x. 214. the annual effect of solar radiation would increase...degree sufficient to account for the apparent past changes of climate. He finds, however, that though the effect of this change on the mean temperature... | |
| William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1046 pages
...Fossil Flora. " Geol. Tr. vol. iii. p. 295. the annual effect of solar radiation would increase as we gb back to remoter periods of the past ; but (probably...degree sufficient to account for the apparent past changes of climate. He finds, however, that though the effect of this change on the mean temperature... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...air, and shore ; the thunder when to roll With terror through the dark aerial hall. Some say he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, 670 From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe : some say, the sun Was... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 490 pages
...enjoying this happy exemption from winter, before the fall of man : after which, the Creator " Bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth twice ten degrees and more : * * * • * to bring in change Of seasons to each clime ; else had the spring Perpetual smiled on... | |
| William Whewell - Physical sciences - 1847 - 740 pages
...eccentricity of the earth's orbit, which has been going on for ages beyond the records of history. He finds" that, on this account, the annual effect of solar...degree sufficient to account for the apparent past changes of climate. 11 Lycll,i. lf1.r1. Liiulley, Fossil Flora. " Gcol. Trans, vol. iii. I.. 2%. He... | |
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