Peale's Popular Compendium of Useful Knowledge, Embracing Science, History, Biography and Industrial Statistics Arranged in the Most Attractive and Instructive Form: Illustrated with a Large Number of Colored Charts and Diagrams, Constituting a Complete Cyclopedia of ReferenceR.S. Peale & Company, 1890 - 536 páginas |
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... night , all are eloquent of the great Hand that made them . From the earliest ages man has sought to read the open leaves of the book of Nature , but even now , after centuries of research and dis- covery , he does not grasp it all ...
... night , all are eloquent of the great Hand that made them . From the earliest ages man has sought to read the open leaves of the book of Nature , but even now , after centuries of research and dis- covery , he does not grasp it all ...
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... night is more homogeneous than by day ; conse- quently , sounds are heard more clearly and farther than in the daytime . If two sounds meet in exactly opposite phases , and the two forces are equal , they will balance each other , and ...
... night is more homogeneous than by day ; conse- quently , sounds are heard more clearly and farther than in the daytime . If two sounds meet in exactly opposite phases , and the two forces are equal , they will balance each other , and ...
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... night . The dryness of the air at great elevations accounts , in part , for the coldness which is there felt so keenly . The thermometer is an instrument to measure the tempera- ture by means of the expansion of mercury . The principal ...
... night . The dryness of the air at great elevations accounts , in part , for the coldness which is there felt so keenly . The thermometer is an instrument to measure the tempera- ture by means of the expansion of mercury . The principal ...
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... night under the open sky , could not fail to become familiar with many of the movements of the heavenly bodies . The Chaldeans in- vented the sun - dial , and also discovered the " Saros , " or " Chal- MARS VENUS SATURN NEPTUNE A COME ...
... night under the open sky , could not fail to become familiar with many of the movements of the heavenly bodies . The Chaldeans in- vented the sun - dial , and also discovered the " Saros , " or " Chal- MARS VENUS SATURN NEPTUNE A COME ...
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... night in which to resume his observations . The fourth night was favorable , and he again found the three stars had shifted . After continued observations he discovered a fourth star , and finally found that they were all rapidly ...
... night in which to resume his observations . The fourth night was favorable , and he again found the three stars had shifted . After continued observations he discovered a fourth star , and finally found that they were all rapidly ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 484 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 490 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all.
Página 484 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 484 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Página 523 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Página 490 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Página 487 - In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people - ah, the people They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone They are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,...
Página 519 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.
Página 487 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Página 490 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.