The Plurality of Worlds: With an Introduction by Edward HitchcockGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 368 sider |
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... whole number of stars . And the variable stars are also very numerous . So that it ap- pears to be not improbable that a single permanent star like the Sun , even leaving its planets out of con- sideration , is a rare exception ...
... whole number of stars . And the variable stars are also very numerous . So that it ap- pears to be not improbable that a single permanent star like the Sun , even leaving its planets out of con- sideration , is a rare exception ...
Side 18
... whole , level , how- ever diversified with hills and valleys , and the skies to be a vault arched over this level ; —a firmament in which the moon and the stars were placed . What magnitude to 18 THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS .
... whole , level , how- ever diversified with hills and valleys , and the skies to be a vault arched over this level ; —a firmament in which the moon and the stars were placed . What magnitude to 18 THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS .
Side 24
... whole earth ? And this is the conclusion , when we reason from one star only , from Sirius . But the argument is the same , from each of the stars . For we have no reason to think that Sirius , though one of the brightest , is more like ...
... whole earth ? And this is the conclusion , when we reason from one star only , from Sirius . But the argument is the same , from each of the stars . For we have no reason to think that Sirius , though one of the brightest , is more like ...
Side 25
... whole vault of the sky exhibits to the naked eye . But the magnifying power of such an instrument only discloses , it does not make , these stars . There appears to be quite as much reason to believe , that each of these telescopic ...
... whole vault of the sky exhibits to the naked eye . But the magnifying power of such an instrument only discloses , it does not make , these stars . There appears to be quite as much reason to believe , that each of these telescopic ...
Side 29
... whole globe of the Earth ; from this , as a second step , to the Planets , the other globes which compose the Solar System . A third step carries us to the Fixed Stars , as visible to the naked eye ; very numerous and immensely distant ...
... whole globe of the Earth ; from this , as a second step , to the Planets , the other globes which compose the Solar System . A third step carries us to the Fixed Stars , as visible to the naked eye ; very numerous and immensely distant ...
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Side 23 - O rack me not to such a vast extent; Those distances belong to thee: The world's too little for thy tent, A grave too big for me.
Side 271 - Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Side 68 - Far other life you live, far other tongue You talk, far other thought, perhaps, you think, Than man. How various are the works of God! But say, what thought?
Side 336 - The recognition of an ideal exemplar for the vertebrated animals, proves that the knowledge of such a being as man must have existed before man appeared. For the Divine Mind which planned the archetype also foreknew all its modifications. The archetypal idea was manifested in the flesh, under divers modifications, upon this planet, long prior to the existence of those animal species that actually exemplify it.
Side 351 - Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine: For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower; Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew ; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft...
Side 129 - The intelligent part of creation is thrust into the compass of a few years, in the course of myriads of ages ; why not then into the compass of a few miles, in the expanse of systems...
Side 141 - Taking the apparent semidiameter of the nubecula major at 3°, and regarding its solid form as, roughly speaking, spherical, its nearest and most remote parts differ in their distance from us by a little more than a tenth part of our distance from its centre.
Side 260 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.