| 1841 - 488 lapas
...spreading vapours." directed, and the ends they are intended to subserve in the fabric of the universe. This is a science which has, in all ages, engaged...homage, and have sometimes enriched it with their labours; and humble shepherds, while watching their flocks by night, have beheld with rapture the blue... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - 444 lapas
...their movements are directed, and the ends they are intended to subserve in the fabric of the universe. This is a science which has in all ages engaged the...homage, and have sometimes enriched it with their labours ; and humble shepherds, while watching their flocks by night, have beheld with rapture the... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 350 lapas
...Milky Way, }e; INTRODUCTION. ADVANTAGES OP THE STUDY OF ASTRONOMY BY THOMAS DICK, LL. D. ASTRONOMY is a science which has, in all ages, engaged the attention...homage, and have sometimes enriched it with their la'xrars; and humble shepherds, while watching their flocks by night, have beheld with rapture the... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1842 - 344 lapas
...OF ASTRONOMY THOMAS DICK, LL. D. ASTRONOMY is a science which has, in all ages, engaged the atfntion of the poet, the philosopher, and the divine, and...homage, and have sometimes enriched it with their labours ; and humble shepherds, while watching their flocks by night, have beheld with rapture the... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1843 - 344 lapas
...INTRODUCTION. ADVANTAGES OP THE STUDY OF ASTRONOMY BY THOMAS DICK, LL.D. ASTRONOMY is a science which has, tu all ages, engaged the attention of the poet, the philosopher,...of their study and admiration. Kings have descended froui their thrones to render it homage, and have sometimes enriched it with their labours; and humble... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1843 - 344 lapas
...INTRODUCTION. ADVANTAGES OP THE STUDY OF ASTRONOMY BT THOMAS DICK, LL. D. ASTRONOMY is a science which has, m all ages, engaged the attention of the poet, the philosopher, and the divine, and heen the subject of their study and admiration. Kings have descended from their thrones to render it... | |
| George Coleman (F.R.A.S.) - 1846 - 488 lapas
...subserve in the fabric of the universe. This is a science which has in all ages engaged the most devoted attention of the poet, the philosopher, and the divine...and been the subject of their study and admiration. The study of this science must have been coeval with the existence of man;* hence, none of the sciences... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1847 - 416 lapas
...their movements are directed, and the ends they are intended to subserve in the fabric of the universe. This is a science which has in all ages engaged the attention of the poet, the philosopher, and ths divine, and been the subject of their study and admiration. Kings have descended from their thrones... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1850 - 586 lapas
...movements are directed, and the ends they arc intended to subserve in the fabric, of the universe. This is a science which has in all ages engaged the...subject of their study and admiration. Kings have deicended from their thrones to render it homage, and have sometimes enriched it with their labours... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1850 - 344 lapas
...Venos, - •'' lNTRODUCTlON, ADVANTAGES OF THE STUDY OP ASTRONOMY. BY THOMAS D1CK, LL. D. ASTRONOMY is a science which has, in all ages, engaged the attention...poet, the philosopher, and the divine, and been the sobject of th-eir stody and admiration. Kings have descended from their thrones to render it homage,... | |
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