A compendium of ancient and modern geographyE. Williams, 1831 - 80 من الصفحات |
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... round dish . A straight line passing through the centre of a circle and cutting the circumference in two parts , is called its diameter , because it ( diaperper ) measures through it : now if a circle be supposed to turn completely round ...
... round dish . A straight line passing through the centre of a circle and cutting the circumference in two parts , is called its diameter , because it ( diaperper ) measures through it : now if a circle be supposed to turn completely round ...
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... round , which most of his countrymen ( both before and after his time ) looked upon as only a plane ; he likewise showed the causes of solstices and equinoxes , and divided the year into 365 days . His opinions were afterwards ...
... round , which most of his countrymen ( both before and after his time ) looked upon as only a plane ; he likewise showed the causes of solstices and equinoxes , and divided the year into 365 days . His opinions were afterwards ...
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... round the Earth ; it also makes the Sun to be the centre of the orbits of Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn , which revolve round him in their respective years as he revolves round the Earth in a solar year : he thus supposes ...
... round the Earth ; it also makes the Sun to be the centre of the orbits of Mercury , Venus , Mars , Jupiter and Saturn , which revolve round him in their respective years as he revolves round the Earth in a solar year : he thus supposes ...
الصفحة 5
... round round the Sun. their own Axis . Days . D. H. M. " The Sun - 883,246 1,921 25 14 8 Mercury - 3,224 37,000,000 10 88 15 0 5 Venus · 7,687 68,000,000 58 224 0 23 21 Inferior Pla- nets , or such as are nearer the Sun than our Earth is ...
... round round the Sun. their own Axis . Days . D. H. M. " The Sun - 883,246 1,921 25 14 8 Mercury - 3,224 37,000,000 10 88 15 0 5 Venus · 7,687 68,000,000 58 224 0 23 21 Inferior Pla- nets , or such as are nearer the Sun than our Earth is ...
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... round him . The revolution of the Sun on his own axis from East to West is evinced by the motion of the maculæ or spots which are observed on his surface . These spots are conjectured to be places where , by the accidental removal of ...
... round him . The revolution of the Sun on his own axis from East to West is evinced by the motion of the maculæ or spots which are observed on his surface . These spots are conjectured to be places where , by the accidental removal of ...
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الصفحة 17 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these Heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
الصفحة 498 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة 567 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
الصفحة 73 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...
الصفحة 2 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
الصفحة 516 - First, Moloch, horrid king, besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears ; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard, that pass'd through fire To his grim idol.
الصفحة xxii - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
الصفحة 2 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
الصفحة 561 - Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower; or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry...
الصفحة 6 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...