 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 sivua
...or pity, joy or grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age; Thou charm'st in fancy's idle dream, In reason's philosophic page. That very law* which moulds a tear, And hids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 sivua
...poetically alluded to by Rogers. In some of his stanzas he says— The very law which moulds a tear, Anil bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, (*) V. What we have seen in the law of the centripetal force, viz. a choice guided by views of utility,... | |
 | Jewel - 1839 - 352 sivua
...Pity, Joy or Grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm 'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page....a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. CORONACH, OR FUNERAL SONG. HE is gone on the mountain, He is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1839 - 464 sivua
...of action, very simple in themselves, but capable of extensive application. Do you not remember, ' That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle...a sphere, And guides the planets in their course,' " Some philosophers suppose, that during the state of the earth in which coal was deposited, there... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1839 - 554 sivua
...a popular poet has very beautifully remarked, that "That very law which moulds a war, A nd bids il trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere. And guides the planets in their coarse." LECT. strongly, as to require a force much greater than their ^N;-x., own weight to separate... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 sivua
...been beautifully said, — " The very law which moulds a tear, And makes it trickle from its scarce, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course."* The globular figure of the earth, which is the result of this law, and which may easily be shown to... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1841 - 268 sivua
...the other phenomena ;" until we can show, as it has been beautifully remarked by a popular poet, " That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law presprves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." In Newton's preface to the Principia... | |
 | 1841 - 848 sivua
...orbits ; having seen that " That self-same law which mould« a tear. And bids it trickle from it« source ; That law preserves the earth a sphere. And guides the planets in their course ;"— having also endeavoured to explain the cause of tit Tides in the Ocean ; I must now bring to... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 360 sivua
...or Pity, Joy or Grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page....TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST. Vane, quid affectas faciem mihi ponere, pictor ? Aeris et linguee sum filia ; Et, si vis similem pingere, pinge sonum.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 352 sivua
...or Pity, Joy or Grief. The sage's and the poet's theme, In every clime, in every age ; Thou charm'st in Fancy's idle dream, In Reason's philosophic page....course. TO A VOICE THAT HAD BEEN LOST. Vane, quid aflectas faciem mihi ponere, pictor ! Aeris et lingute sum filia ; Et, si vis similem pingere, pinge... | |
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That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. 
