Outlines of geography, principally ancient [by J. Pillans].1847 |
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... miles in diameter , and , like all the other planets , primary and secondary , opaque , but capable like them of reflect- ing a portion of the Sun's light . The Moon revolves round the Earth in one month , * at the mean distance of ...
... miles in diameter , and , like all the other planets , primary and secondary , opaque , but capable like them of reflect- ing a portion of the Sun's light . The Moon revolves round the Earth in one month , * at the mean distance of ...
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... miles , or th part of its mean distance . The points in the orbit corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion , are termed the apsides , and have a slow angular motion in the heavens , in consequence of which they mutually change their ...
... miles , or th part of its mean distance . The points in the orbit corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion , are termed the apsides , and have a slow angular motion in the heavens , in consequence of which they mutually change their ...
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... miles . In other words , if the diameter of the Earth's orbit be taken as the base of a triangle whose sides are the rectilinear dis- tances of the star from the Earth at the opposite points of her orbit , the sides are so immeasurably ...
... miles . In other words , if the diameter of the Earth's orbit be taken as the base of a triangle whose sides are the rectilinear dis- tances of the star from the Earth at the opposite points of her orbit , the sides are so immeasurably ...
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... miles , as unity , it will be found that a Centauri , with a Parallax of 0 " .9128 , is distant 11,900 , or in round numbers , 12,000 times the radius of the Solar System , as bounded by the orbit of Uranus . The distance of 61 Cygni ...
... miles , as unity , it will be found that a Centauri , with a Parallax of 0 " .9128 , is distant 11,900 , or in round numbers , 12,000 times the radius of the Solar System , as bounded by the orbit of Uranus . The distance of 61 Cygni ...
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... star to the eye of a person travelling north , and its nearer approach to the horizon as one goes south . The inequalities of mountain and valley are as nothing on the surface of a globe of 25,000 miles in circumference , -not pro- 16.
... star to the eye of a person travelling north , and its nearer approach to the horizon as one goes south . The inequalities of mountain and valley are as nothing on the surface of a globe of 25,000 miles in circumference , -not pro- 16.
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الصفحة 94 - Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore...
الصفحة 110 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring or shady grove or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath That wash thy hallowed feet and warbling flow, Nightly I visit: nor sometimes forget Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old.
الصفحة 81 - The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
الصفحة 72 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 73 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
الصفحة 34 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
الصفحة 105 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
الصفحة 83 - Where erst was thickest fight, the angelic throng, And left large field, unsafe within the wind Of such commotion; such as, to set forth Great things by small, if, Nature's concord broke, Among the constellations war were sprung, Two planets, rushing from aspect malign Of fiercest opposition, in mid sky Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound.
الصفحة 48 - Alpheum fama est hue Elidis amnem Occultas egisse vias subter mare : qui nunc Ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis.
الصفحة 21 - The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.