The lunar worldA. and C. Black, 1863 - 138 sivua |
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ADAM AND CHARLES analogy Apennines appearance arrangement Ascension Island astronomers atmo atmosphere beautiful bodies bright cause CHARLES BLACK'S PUBLICATIONS cloth clouds colour Crown 8vo dark Demy 8vo diameter distance earth effect Encyclopædia Britannica evidence existence fact Fcap feet full moon gases geological gilt edges globe glory Gruitheisen heat heavens hemisphere Hyginus Illustrations imagination inhabitants lava light lunar atmosphere lunar craters lunar surface Mædler Mare Crisium Mare Imbrium Mare Serenitatis miles mind moon's motion Mount Athos mountains Nasmyth nature never night object observation ocean orbit pass perceive perfect plain planet Plate plurality of worlds present produced Professor rays reference remarkable rock round satellite says scenery Schroeter Second edition seems seen shadows shew shine side Sir David solar sphere spot star summit T. W. Webb telescope terrestrial tion vegetation volcanic vols WILLIAM LINDSAY ALEXANDER wonderful
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Sivu 73 - ... and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
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Sivu 37 - ... undertook, for a moderate consideration, to place a light before every tenth door, on moonless nights, from Michaelmas to Lady Day, and from six to twelve of the clock. Those who now see the capital all the year round, from dusk to dawn, blazing with a splendour...
Sivu 36 - When the evening closed in, the difficulty and danger of walking about London became serious indeed. The garret windows were opened, and pails were emptied, with little regard to those who were passing below. Falls, bruises, and broken bones were of constant occurrence. For, till the last year of the reign of Charles the Second, most of the streets were left in profound darkness. Thieves and robbers plied their trade with impunity : yet they were hardly so terrible to peaceable citizens as another...
Sivu 36 - The machinery for keeping the peace was utterly contemptible. There was an act of Common Council which provided that more than a thousand watchmen should be constantly on the alert in the city, from sunset to sunrise, and that every inhabitant should take his turn of duty. But the act was negligently executed. Few of those who were summoned left their homes; and those few generally found it more agreeable to tipple in alehouses than to pace the streets.
Sivu 72 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Sivu ix - Philosophy baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees, As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives Him his praise, and forfeits not her own.
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